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QI BAISHI (1863-1957)

Lot 1074
31.05.2024 00:00UTC +08:00
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ID 1222419
Lot 1074 | QI BAISHI (1863-1957)
Estimate value
HKD 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
QI BAISHI (1863-1957)
Mid-Autumn Festival
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
104 x 34.7 cm. (41 x 13 5/8 in.)
Entitled, inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist
One collector’s seal of Wang Fangyu (1913-1997)




Literature

Fang-Yu Wang & Kai-Yu Hsu, Ch’I Pai-Shih’s Paintings, Art Book Co., Ltd., Taipei, May 1979, p.102, pl. 40.
The Collected Works of Qi Baishi Volume V, Hunan Fine Art Publishing House, October 1996, p.280; pl.266.
A Catalogue of Qi Baishi’s Paintings, Tianjin People’s Fine Art Publishing House, July 2006, p.358.
Pictures of the Mind: The Art of Wang Fangyu, Wang Shaofang, China, 2012, p.146, pl.46.



Exhibited

Beijing, Aurther M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Pictures of the Mind: The Art of Wang Fangyu, December 8 2012 – February 20 2013.



Further details

The esteemed scholar, collector, and artist Wang Fangyu (1913-1997), born in Beijing, began training in calligraphy from a young age. He had an illustrious academic career in the United States, where he was professor of Chinese language and literature at Yale and later Seton Hall University. United by a shared passion for art and connoisseurship, Wang forged a close friendship with Zhang Daqian. Together with his wife Sum Wai (1918-1996), Wang meticulously assembled the largest and most significant private collection of Bada Shanren’s works. This unparalleled collection served as the cornerstone for Wang Fangyu’s pioneering scholarship, establishing him as a foremost authority on Bada Shanren today. His co-authored monograph on Qi Baishi in 1979, alongside Hsu Kai-yu, remains a seminal work in the field. Wang’s own abstract calligraphy exudes dynamism and poetry, injecting fresh vitality into the tradition of calligraphy.
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