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LOT 1347
FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION

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ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)

Temple by theWaterfall

Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
57 x 90 cm. (22 ƒ x 35 ¡ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist and one dated seal of guichou year (1973)
Dated first month, sixty-second year (of the Republic, 1973)
Further inscribed and signed by the artist, with two seals
Dated seventh month, yimao year (1975)
Dedicated to Mengjian and Madame Ruiyi

EXHIBITED:

Los Angeles, Ankrum Gallery, Chinese Painting Exhibition By Chang Dai-chien, 25 March-14 April, 1973.

LITERATURE:

Selections of Zhang Daqian’s Paintings, People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 1986, pl.2.
Chinese Painting Exhibition By Chang Dai-chien, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, 1973, pl.7.

NOTE:

Cai Mengjian (1905-2001), sobriquet Moutian, originally from Jiangxi, graduated from Qingdao University with a degree
in economics and further studied abroad in Japan. He later became the director of the Department of Civil Affairs in Gansu
Province, as well as mayor of Lanzhou, among other positions. Furthermore, in 1947, he was chosen as the National
Representative of the General Assembly. Before the end of the Cultural Revolution, he moved to Taiwan, and then finally to
the United States.

Cai Mengjian became acquainted with Zhang Daqian in the early part of the artist’s career. In 1941, when Zhang traveled
to Dunhuang, he passed Gansu Province, including Lanzhou, where he met Cai Mengjian. From then on, whenever Zhang
Daqian traveled to Lanzhou, he would be welcomed by Cai. After 1949, when Cai Mengjian moved to Taiwan and, later,
the United States, the two would have numerous opportunities for encounter.

HK$15,000,000-20,000,000 US$2,000,000-2,600,000

1973 1973
1975

Ankrum 1973 3 25 4 14
1905 2001
Ankrum 1986 2
, 1973 7

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