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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MICHAEL GALLIS
201
REN YI (1840-1895) 來源
上海國際商品拍賣有限公司，2003年7月
Flower and Birds, 1879
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, inscribed by the artist and 出版
dated jimao, and signed Bonian with an artist’s seal Ren Yi yin.
14 3/4 x 14 1/4in (37.4 x 36.1cm) 馬欣樂主編，《邁克·蓋勒斯中國畫收藏：一個西方學者的中華文化之
旅》，天津人民美術出版社，2019年，頁132
$6,000 - 8,000 Painted in his 30s, Flower and Dove (lot 202) and Flower and Birds
(lot 201) demonstrate the range of Ren Yi’s artistic abilities. The
任頤 花鳥 設色紙本 立軸 一八七九年作 earlier work, Flower and Dove, is painted in a detailed, slow, and
relatively realistic gongbi manner. While the rock on which the dove
Provenance stands is abstracted, Ren Yi, who was also known as Ren Bonian,
Shanghai International Commodity Auction Co., Ltd, July 2003 paid great attention to describing detailed blossoms that appear light
and delicate, branches with a strong sense of three-dimensionality
Published and an alert and well defined bird. In contrast, the two birds in lot
Gallis, Michael and Ma Xinle, Maike Gailesi Zhongguo hua shoucang: 201 were painted rapidly with just a few suggestive brushstrokes that
yige Xifang xuezhe de Zhonghua wenhua zhilü, Tianjin Renmin Meishu emphasize the emotional impact. The branches, leaves and berries, all
Chubanshe, 2019, p.132 rendered without outlines, similarly were painted in the abbreviated and
expressive xieyi manner. C.C. Wang remarked to Michael Gallis that
he found this expressive painting by Ren Yi especially fine and creative.
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