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HUANG BINHONG (1865-1955)

Landscape

Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and color on paper
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated the second month, yichou year (1925)
19 Ω x 9 º in. (49.6 x 23.5 cm.)

$50,000-70,000

PROVENANCE:

Property from the Lai Family Collection.

Huang Binhong developed a distinctive painting style for
landscapes that employed dense brushwork, intensive
use of accent strokes, and complex compositions. This
mountainous landscape pained in 1925 combines the
two essential concerns that guided Huang Binhong’s
artistic production throughout his entire lifetime, namely,
drawing from life (xiesheng) and imitating old masters
(lingu). He believed that it was only through the rigorous
practice of both that an artist could truly reveal the inner
beauty of both nature and tradition.

In addition to employing the age-old theme of mountains
and water, Huang Binhong here also invoked the past in
his inscription, which repeats a poem written by the artist
Qian Xuan (1235-circa 1305) on one of his own landscape
compositions. The poem celebrates the beauty of the
green landscape and the clearness of the Yangzi river
waters. Yet, Huang modernized tradition by presenting
the vista from a single viewpoint, set high above the
scenery, a convention not found in earlier times.

黃賓虹 山水 設色紙本 鏡框 一九二五年作
題識：山色空濛翠欲流，長江清澈一天秋，茅茨
落日寒煙外，久立行人待渡舟，乙丑（1925年）
二月，黃賓虹畫像 光魚道兄法鑑。
鈐印印：黃質私印

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