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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MICHAEL GALLIS

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QI BAISHI (1864-1957)
Shrimp
Hanging scroll, ink on paper, inscribed by the artist with a poem, and
signed Baishi with an artist’s seal reading Muren, and a collector’s seal
of Tsao Jungying.
40 x 13 1/2in (100 x 34.2cm)

$45,000 - 65,000

齊白石 蝦 水墨紙本 立軸

Provenance
Far East Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, December 1966

Published
Gallis, Michael and Ma Xinle, Michael Gallis Collection of Chinese
Paintings Maike Gailesi Zhongguo hua shoucang: yige Xifang xuezhe
de Zhonghua wenhua zhilu, Tianjin Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 2019,
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pp.148-149

來源
舊金山遠東藝術畫廊，1966年6月
出版
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148-149
This energetic panoply of six shrimp, whose myriad legs and feelers
are at once individually delineated while also overlapping and
extending in all directions, is a later and larger work than the preceding
example (lot 210). In addition to being an especially energetic and
skillful rendition of Qi Baishi’s frequent subject, Michael Gallis points
out that it was unusual for the artist to append a lengthy poem to his
painting of shrimp. Moreover, while this poem superficially speaks of
fat crabs, shrimp and dragons, painted in the turbulent period of 1947,
it is, in fact, likely a subtle and rare political commentary by the artist.

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