MA JIN (1900-1970)

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MA JIN (1900-1970)
Landscape after Qiu Ying
Handscroll, ink and colour on paper
Painting: 28 x 120 cm. (11 x 47 ¼ in.)
Frontispiece: 28 x 115 cm. (11 x 45 ¼ in.)
Colophon part one: 28 x 135 cm. (11 x 53 1/8 in.)
Colophon part two: 28 x 107 cm. (11 x 42 1/8 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with sixteen seals of the artist
Dated winter, tenth month, renxu year (1922)
Titleslip by Wang Fu’an (1880-1960)




Literature

A Collection of Paintings by Modern Chinese Masters: Ma Jin, People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, Beijing, 2001, pp. 10-13.



Further details

The late Qing collector Gu Wenbin recorded in Record of the Paintings and Calligraphy in the Guoyun Pavilion a detailed description of Qiu Ying’s masterpiece Spring in Jiangnan, which he praised as “the finest of all Qiu’s paintings.” The scroll unites Qiu Ying’s painting with Shen Zhou’s calligraphy, followed by colophons inscribed by leading Ming literati such as Wen Zhengming, Wang Chong, and Wen Peng, extending over seven meters in length.

Before the painting itself existed, there was first the poetic tradition of “Jiangnan Spring.” During the Jiajing reign, many Suzhou literati composed poems in response to Ni Yunlin’s original Jiangnan Spring Ci. Shen Zhou also wrote two matching poems, whose manuscripts were later acquired by the Suzhou collector Yuan Yongzhi. Yuan then commissioned Qiu Ying—Shen Zhou’s friend and artistic peer—to create a painting to accompany the poems. Once the painting was completed, Yuan invited major Wu School literati to add inscriptions. From poem to painting to colophons, the creation of the scroll unfolded over several decades.

By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the scroll entered the collection of the renowned Nanxun collector Pang Laichen. In 1953, Zheng Zhenduo, then Director of the National Cultural Relics Bureau, specifically requested the scroll for the Palace Museum, noting the museum’s scarcity of Ming and Qing paintings and listing it as a toppriority acquisition.

In 1922, the young Ma Jin—then only twentythree and an emerging artist under the tutelage of Jin Cheng—encountered the scroll at Pang’s residence in Nanxun. Already well trained in copying ancient masterpieces under Jin Cheng’s guidance, Ma Jin painstakingly reproduced the entire scroll. His copy was so faithful that only the seals differed—he replaced all of Qiu Ying’s and the other calligraphers’ seals with seventeen of his own. During his stay in Nanxun, Ma Jin copied many ancient works, demonstrating exceptional skill in both meticulous and expressive styles. While most Beijing painters of the time focused on the “Four Wangs,” Ma Jin broadened his study of artistic lineages from Dong Yuan and Juran through the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing masters, striving to move beyond convention.
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