PREVIOUSLY IN THE COLLECTION OF GERHARD POMMERANZ-LIEDKE (LOT 1300)Gerhard Pommeranz-Liedke (1909-1974), was born in Mewe, Eastern Prussia, present-day Poland. He studied at the State Art Academy in Breslau and then at the State Academy for Graphic Arts in Leipzig. In the 1950s and 1960s, he oversaw art publications and exhibitions at the Academy of the Arts in East in Berlin (East). Starting in 1953, Pommeranz-Liedke began to travel to China, accompanying exhibitions from East Germany, such as the German Applied Art from the GDR exhibition in Shanghai and Beijing. He developed an intense interest in Chinese art, including nianhua, stone rubbings and contemporary Chinese paintings. He returned to China for the third time from mid-September to mid-December of 1958 at the invitation of the Bureau of Cultural Relation with Foreign Countries, and visited numerous art academies in Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where he met and discussed Chinese and Western art with many artists, including Fu Baoshi, whom he met in Nanjing on 14 November 1958. This painting was perhaps presented to him at this occasion.

FU BAOSHI (1904-1965)

Spring Rain in Jiangnan

Details

FU BAOSHI (1904-1965)
Spring Rain in Jiangnan
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
63.7 x 36.3 cm. (25 1/8 x 14 ¼ in.)
Entitled, inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist

Provenance

Lempertz Köln, sale Asian Art n° 973, 10/11 December 2010, lot 35.

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Lot Essay

Fu Baoshi was good at depicting rain. The theme of rain was found in his works in the 1940s, and was inspired by the scenery of Sichuan. After the civil war, Fu moved from Sichuan to the Jiangnan region, and paintings of Sichuan’s rainy scenes became Jiangnan’s rainy scenes. This painting is one typical work of this theme. Using his signature “broken brush and open tip” brushstroke, he painted a few willows and then added some rocks to create the near shore. The far shore in the upper left corner was rendered in mogu style. The boat and boatman are meticulously depicted in fine brushstroke. The umbrella on the boat is the finishing touch, adding a touch of pink to the painting. Finally, the artist used his own "ink-sweeping method," sweeping the painting in one direction by a slanted ink brush, to cover the scene in misty rain.

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