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FEI DANXU (1801-1850) ATTRIBUTED TO XIE ZHIGUANG (1899-1976)
Beauty with calligraphy Magu with Crane
Ink and color on paper, framed and glazed, the calligraphy inscribed Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, inscribed, dated gengwu qiu
with the date dingwei xia liu yue (1847 summer, sixth month) ba yue (1930, eighth month) and bearing a signature reading Xie
and signed Fei Danxu with two artist’s seals reading Fei Danxu yin Tingchuan with two artist’s seals reading Tingchuan zhi yin and Xie
and Zitiao. and two other seals.
40 1/4 x 13 3/4in (102.3 x 35cm) 43 x 15 1/2in (109.2 x 39.4cm)

$4,000 - 6,000 $3,000 - 5,000

費 鏡框 一八四七年作 之

ie Tingchuan ( ) was the birth name of ie Zhiguang ( 之 ),

one of the most accomplished commercial painters of Shanghai in the

early 20th century. Aside from creating images of beauties, flowers

and landscapes for advertisements and the theater, ie also painted

in the classical manner. Despite the inscription indicating that the

artist copied a painting of Magu by Chen Hongshou (1598-1652), this

painting strongly resembles another of the same subject by the late

20th century Shanghai school master Ren Yi (1840-1895).

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