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PROPERTY OF THE MASTER OF THE TREASURING THREE LOTUSES DWELLING (LOTS 1507-1512) Master of the Treasuring Three Lotuses Dwelling was born in Suzhou and raised in Shanghai. She studied acupuncture under Fei Zibin (1890-1981) and is well-educated in Chinese opera and traditional Chinese medicine, and was invited by Panorama Magazine’s chief editor Shen Weichuang to write for the magazine. Through these connections, she befriended Zhang Daqian. When Shen wanted to give Pink Lotus (Lot 1512) to her and asked the artist, Zhang happily agreed and reminisced that he painted another Red Lotus (Lot 1509) in 1976. Zhang ultimately decided to paint one more lotus painting for her gifted her a new studio name “Treasuring Three Lotuses Dwelling”, demonstrating their wonderful friendship.
ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
Red Lotus
Details
ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
Red Lotus
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
Inscribed and signed, with four seals of the artist and one dated seal of bingchen year (1976)
Dated third month, sixty-fifth year (of the Republic, 1976)
LITERATURE :
Panorama Magazine Vol. 33, Panorama Publishing House, 1 August 1976, cover.
Nan Zhen Ji, Panorama Publishing House, 1991, p. xii.
Nan Zhen Ji Volume II, 2016, p. 45.
89 x 44.5 cm. (35 x 17 1/2 in.)
Red Lotus
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
Inscribed and signed, with four seals of the artist and one dated seal of bingchen year (1976)
Dated third month, sixty-fifth year (of the Republic, 1976)
LITERATURE :
Panorama Magazine Vol. 33, Panorama Publishing House, 1 August 1976, cover.
Nan Zhen Ji, Panorama Publishing House, 1991, p. xii.
Nan Zhen Ji Volume II, 2016, p. 45.
89 x 44.5 cm. (35 x 17 1/2 in.)
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