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PROPERTY OF MR. CHEN RENTAO – CHINESE PAINTINGS FROM THE KING KWEI COLLECTION (LOTS 967-969)
SHEN ZHOU (1427-1509)
Landscapes Dedicated to Zhu Xingfu
Details
SHEN ZHOU (1427-1509)
Landscapes Dedicated to Zhu Xingfu
Handscroll, ink and colour on paper
Painting measures 35 x 1,263 cm. (13 ¾ x 497 ¼ in.)
Inscription measures 35 x 131 cm. (13 ¾ x 51 5/8 in.)
Inscribed, signed, and dated third month, bingwu year of the Chenghua period (1486), with five seals of the artist
Dedicated to Zhu Xingfu (1444-1513)
Frontispiece by Li Yingzhen (1431-1493), signed with one seal
Colophons by Shao Bao (1460-1527) and Chen Rentao (1906-1968), with a total of five seals
Nine collector’s seals: three of An Guo (1481-1534), one of Lu Shusheng (1509-1605) and five of Chen Rentao
Three unidentified seals
Landscapes Dedicated to Zhu Xingfu
Handscroll, ink and colour on paper
Painting measures 35 x 1,263 cm. (13 ¾ x 497 ¼ in.)
Inscription measures 35 x 131 cm. (13 ¾ x 51 5/8 in.)
Inscribed, signed, and dated third month, bingwu year of the Chenghua period (1486), with five seals of the artist
Dedicated to Zhu Xingfu (1444-1513)
Frontispiece by Li Yingzhen (1431-1493), signed with one seal
Colophons by Shao Bao (1460-1527) and Chen Rentao (1906-1968), with a total of five seals
Nine collector’s seals: three of An Guo (1481-1534), one of Lu Shusheng (1509-1605) and five of Chen Rentao
Three unidentified seals
Provenance
Property of Mr. Chen Rentao – Chinese Paintings from the King Kwei Collection.
Literature
Zhang Peiheng ed. Chen Zhenghong, Chronology of Shen Zhou, Fudan University Press, Shanghai, 1993, p. 196.
Xu Bangda, Chronology of Paintings and Calligraphy Passed Down Through Historic Collections, People’s Fine Art Publishing House, Beijing, 1994, p. 64.
Ruan Rongchun, Research Compendium on the Ming and Qing Masters of Chinese Painting, Jilin Fine Art Publishing, Changshun, 1996, pp. 233-234.
Lu Xinyuan, Works Personally Examined from the Rangli Guan, Book 16, in Complete Compendium of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Shanghai: Painting and Calligraphy Publishing, Shanghai, 1998, p. 93.
Tian Hong, Tian Lin eds., Illustrated Chronological Catalogue of the Paintings by Shen Zhou,
Vol. 1, Tianjin People’s Fine Art Publishing, Tianjin, 2012, p. 162.
Xu Bangda, Chronology of Paintings and Calligraphy Passed Down Through Historic Collections, People’s Fine Art Publishing House, Beijing, 1994, p. 64.
Ruan Rongchun, Research Compendium on the Ming and Qing Masters of Chinese Painting, Jilin Fine Art Publishing, Changshun, 1996, pp. 233-234.
Lu Xinyuan, Works Personally Examined from the Rangli Guan, Book 16, in Complete Compendium of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Shanghai: Painting and Calligraphy Publishing, Shanghai, 1998, p. 93.
Tian Hong, Tian Lin eds., Illustrated Chronological Catalogue of the Paintings by Shen Zhou,
Vol. 1, Tianjin People’s Fine Art Publishing, Tianjin, 2012, p. 162.
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