ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
LOTS 1343 — 1346PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE BRAZILIAN COLLECTORThis impressive collection of splashed-ink works was acquired in 1974 by a private Brazilian collector at Zhang Daqian’s solo exhibition in São Paolo, by virtue of an introduction by Sun Jiaqin (1930-2010). Each lot is accompanied by a detailed certificate in Portuguese from the Brazilian government, signed by Sun Jiaqin stating that each painting was directly acquired from the exhibition.Sun Jiaqin (1930-2010), sobriquet Yeyun, born in Dalian, became the last student of Zhang Daqian in 1963. In 1964, he resigned from his teaching post at National Taiwan Normal University to follow the artist to Brazil, where he studied painting in Zhang’s São Paulo studio, the Garden of Eight Virtues.
ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)

Snow-Capped Mountains

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ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
Snow-Capped Mountains
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
59 x 82 cm. (23 ¼ x 32 ¼ in.)
Signed, with one seal of the artist and one dated seal of wushen year (1968)
Note: When the present collector acquired this painting in São Paulo in 1974, while Zhang Daqian had his solo exhibition, Sun Jiaqin explained that since the painting is of abstract form, Zhang Daqian deliberately signed and stamped his seals inversely as a jest to interact with the viewers.

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