Lot 1260
  • 1260

WANG HUI 1632-1717 | LANDSCAPES

Estimate
280,000 - 380,000 USD
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Description

  • Wang Hui
  • LANDSCAPES
  • ink and color on paper, eight album leaves framed
  • each 26.3 by 41.3 cm. 10 1/4  by 16 1/4  in. (8)
(1) with three seals of the artist, shi gu zi, wang hui zhi yin, tian fang xian ren, bu er fa, inscribed with a poem sentence (2) with three seals, shi gu zi, wang hui zhi yin, tian fang xian ren, inscribed "imitating Guan Tong ('s style)" (3) with one seal, wang hui, inscribed "imitating Lu Haoran's painting" (4) signed Shigu zi, with one seal, wang hui yin (5) with five seals, shang xia qian nian, wang hui yin, geng yan wai shi, shi gu zi, wang hui zhi yin, inscribed with a poem and "imitating Meihua daoren (Wu Zhen, 1280-1354)'s brush idea" (6) with two seals, shi gu zi, wang hui zhi yin (7) signed Wang Hui, with two seals, wang hui, li jia sheng huo (8) signd Gengyan sanren, dated jimao, the first day of the first lunar month (January 31, 1699), inscribed "imitating Zhao Wenmin (Zhao Mengfu, 1254-1322)'s Water Village" and one poem, with four seals, wang hui, shi gu zi, wang hui zhi yin, cheng huai guan yinWith one collector's seal of Mr. and Mrs. Darion, dai li an cang (2) with five collector's seals of He Guanwu (20th Century), tian xi shu wu jian cang (2), li fu xin shang, li fu shen ding, guan wu qing shang, and one collector's seal of Han Rongguang (19th Century), han rong guang yin

Provenance

Jiang Ershi (Chiang Er-shih, Qingshuang guan) collection
Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, Chinese Paintings from the Chiang Er-shih Collection, March 5, 1971, lot 32

Exhibited

Musée Cernuschi, Paris, December 1959-January 1960

Literature

Vadime Elisseeff, Seize Peintures de Maîtres Chinois, XII-XVII Siècles, de la Collection Chiang Er-shih, Paris, 1959, item no. 14
Jean A. Keim, Art Chinois IV, Epogues Ming et Ts'ing, Paris, 1961, pl. 12

Condition

- Overall in good condition except middle folding line from previous mounting.
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