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LU YANSHAO (1909-1993)
Three Friends of Winter, 1978
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
Inscribed and signed Lu Yanshao, with four seals
of the artist.
109.5cm (43⅛in) high x 50.5cm (19⅞in) wide.

£12,000 - 15,000
CNY110,000 - 130,000

陸儼少 松石梅花圖 紙本設色 立軸裝裱 一九七八
年作

Lu Yanshao was a painter who struck a balance
in his work between the meticulous skill of the
orthodox ‘Four Wangs’ of the Qing dynasty and the
building of spontaneous brush strokes. In 1927, Lu
Yanshao studied poetry and calligraphy with Wang
Tongyu, and then painting with the Shanghai painter
Feng Chaoran. In 1938, Lu held his first exhibition.
In 1955 he began to teach at the Chinese Painting
Academy in Shanghai. The present lot has the
following inscription:

‘疏枝橫玉瘦，小萼點珠光。一朵忽先變，百花皆後
香。陳亮梅花詩。一九七八年八月，陸儼少畫。’
Which may be translated as:

‘The sparse branches like slender jade, the little
blossoms like lustrous pearls; A flower suddenly
transforms, the myriad flowers follow in fragrance.
Chen Liang’s Poem on the Plum Blossom. Eighth
month of 1978, painted by Lu Yanshao.

Seals: Lu, Yanshao, Jiading, Yanshao Wuyang
鈐印：陸、儼少、嘉定、儼少無恙

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