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AFTER QIU YING (1494-1552) PENG XIANCHENG (B.1941)
Late Ming/early Qing Dynasty Polo Players
Playing Weiqi; ink and colours on silk, apocryphal signature of the artist Ink and colours on paper, with signature and seal of the artist.
on the bottom left corner, framed and glazed. 133cm (52 3/8in) long x 67cm (26 3/8in) high.
28.5cm (11 1/2in) high x 22.5cm (8 7/8in) wide.
£4,000 - 6,000
£4,000 - 6,000 CNY36,000 - 54,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000
彭先誠 「唐人馬球圖」 一九八六年作 紙本設色
明晚期/清早期 仇英（款） 對弈圖 絹本設色 鏡框裝裱
題識：唐人馬球圖 嵗在丙寅年冬月於錦里 先誠畫并题
Qiu Ying 仇英 (c.1494-1552), also known as Shifu 實父, pseudonym 鈐印：先誠
Shizhou 十洲, was a famous professional painter based in Suzhou
known for his green and blue landscape style. Although he was not Peng Xiancheng is a contemporary Chinese artist based in Chengdu,
of the scholar-gentry class, his talent allowed him to be regarded as China, known for his depictions of Tang dynasty ladies on horseback
one of the Four Masters of the Wu School, which generally stressed using a ‘boneless’ style involving carefully controlled drops of ink.
the importance of literati-style ink washes. For more on Qiu Ying and Peng Xiancheng is a mainly self-taught artist who only began painting
an example of his landscape style, see Z.Hongxing, Masterpieces of in the 1970s after years of being a teacher. Similar paintings by Peng
Chinese Painting 700-1900, London, 2013, pp.260-261. See related Xiancheng of polo players were sold at Christie’s Hong Kong on,
paintings after Qiu Ying, with calligraphy, which were sold at Sotheby’s 1 December 2015, lot 1469; 28 May 2007, lot 1213; and 27
New York, 24 June 2020, lot 988. November 2006, lot 1063.

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