Lot 532
  • 532

Gu Fuzhen (1634-After 1716)

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Gu Fuzhen
  • QUIETLY FARMING IN A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE
  • ink and color on paper, hanging scroll
signed Songchao laoren Zhen, at the age of seventy-two, with three seals of the artist, shou xi, se ru, and one illegible

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, Fine Chinese Paintings, May 31, 1989, lot 7

Exhibited

1. Chinese Painting of the Past Four Hundred Years, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, October 1, 1949-January 9, 1950
2. Chinese Painting: 15-20th Century, Art collections of the City of Dusseldorf Kunstmuseum (now Museum Kunstpalst), June 18-August 13, 1950
3. Chinese Painting of the 15-20th Century, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, September 30-November 12, 1950
4. Scent of Ink: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, September 2-October 9, 1994; The Chrysler Museum, Virginia, November 13, 1994-January 8, 1995; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, September 9-November 11, 1995; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, December 15, 1995-February 18, 1996; China Institute, New York, February 4-June 10, 1998
5. Le Parfum de l'encre: Peintures Chinoises de la Collection Roy et Marilyn Papp, Musée Cernuschi, September 23-December 30, 1999
6. Lyrical Traditions: Four Centuries of Chinese Paintings from the Papp Collection, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, June 22-October 7, 2007

Literature

1. Osvald Sirén, Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles, vol. VII, NY: The Ronald Press Company, 1956, p. 361
2. Scent of Ink: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, 1994, cat. 20, pp. 61-63
3. Le Parfum de l'encre: Peintures Chinoises de la Collection Roy et Marilyn Papp, Musée Cernuschi, 1999, cat. 22, pp. 79-81
4. Jonathan Hay, Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China, Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 196, fig. 127

Condition

- Paper bears tanned tone due to age. - Moderation restoration of ink loss and paper loss. - Fading of painting pigment.
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