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FU BAOSHI (1904-1965)
Scholars
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
88 x 58 cm. (34 5/8 x 22 7/8 in.)
Entitled, inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated yiyou year (1945)
Further inscribed by Wang Shangyi (1904-1972), dedicated to Jingxi, in the spring of the thirty-eighth year (of the Republic, 1949)
Fu Baoshi was a man of high standards and was a poet as well as a painter. Looking at Fu's inscription 'Throughout times, winning and losing is naught but a smile', one cannot but think upon Su Shi's words 'though it is a delight to win, one feels contented losing too'. The two scholars playing chess against each other possess the ease of just playing the game regardless of its outcome. Having looked beyond the mere outcome of the game, winning and losing is just a process and not what produces delight. Fu was inspired to write such words in 1945, at a time when Japan surrendered, ending the Second World War, and belongs in the collection of paintings he created in the 40's when he was living in Chongqing's Jin Gangpo. Fu's smooth ink lines and areas of flat colour used to execute the robes of his figures imparts a lightness and transparency which is unique in style and charged with a contemporary flavour. This painting was a gift from Fu Baoshi to then Central Communications Head of Department Wang Shangyi in 1945. Later when Yong Ping joined the company in 1949 Wang gifted the painting to him as a sign of their close bond.
Scholars
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
88 x 58 cm. (34 5/8 x 22 7/8 in.)
Entitled, inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated yiyou year (1945)
Further inscribed by Wang Shangyi (1904-1972), dedicated to Jingxi, in the spring of the thirty-eighth year (of the Republic, 1949)
Fu Baoshi was a man of high standards and was a poet as well as a painter. Looking at Fu's inscription 'Throughout times, winning and losing is naught but a smile', one cannot but think upon Su Shi's words 'though it is a delight to win, one feels contented losing too'. The two scholars playing chess against each other possess the ease of just playing the game regardless of its outcome. Having looked beyond the mere outcome of the game, winning and losing is just a process and not what produces delight. Fu was inspired to write such words in 1945, at a time when Japan surrendered, ending the Second World War, and belongs in the collection of paintings he created in the 40's when he was living in Chongqing's Jin Gangpo. Fu's smooth ink lines and areas of flat colour used to execute the robes of his figures imparts a lightness and transparency which is unique in style and charged with a contemporary flavour. This painting was a gift from Fu Baoshi to then Central Communications Head of Department Wang Shangyi in 1945. Later when Yong Ping joined the company in 1949 Wang gifted the painting to him as a sign of their close bond.
来源
PRIVATE COLLECTION OF MR. YUNG PING
These paintings and works of calligraphy were part of the fine collection of Mr. Yung Ping (1907-1998), a native of Canton and a well-known journalist, who also served as a government official. As Deputy Head of the Central News Agency, he represented the government of China in Hong Kong, in particular during official interactions with the British. As evidenced by the numerous dedications by the artists to Mr. Yung on these works, he was an enthusiastic collector of modern Chinese paintings and calligraphy and knew many of the artists personally. Many of the artists dedicated their works to Mr. Yung, who used the courtesy name Jingxi. This collection includes works given to him by renowned artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan at the time, including Zhao Shao'ang, Pu Ru, Yu Youren, Guan Shanyue. Scholar under a Pine Tree by Fu Baoshi was a gift from Mr. Wang Shangyi, a colleague from the agency.
These paintings and works of calligraphy were part of the fine collection of Mr. Yung Ping (1907-1998), a native of Canton and a well-known journalist, who also served as a government official. As Deputy Head of the Central News Agency, he represented the government of China in Hong Kong, in particular during official interactions with the British. As evidenced by the numerous dedications by the artists to Mr. Yung on these works, he was an enthusiastic collector of modern Chinese paintings and calligraphy and knew many of the artists personally. Many of the artists dedicated their works to Mr. Yung, who used the courtesy name Jingxi. This collection includes works given to him by renowned artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan at the time, including Zhao Shao'ang, Pu Ru, Yu Youren, Guan Shanyue. Scholar under a Pine Tree by Fu Baoshi was a gift from Mr. Wang Shangyi, a colleague from the agency.