- 673
Sha Zuo (circa 1875-1945)
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5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- Sha Zuo
- WOODCUTTER
- ink and color on silk, framed
inscribed by Wu Changshuo (1844-1927), signed Anji Wu Changshuo, dated dingsi (1917), the third lunar month, with two seals, wu jun zhi yin and wu chang shuo
Catalogue Note
Colophon:
Reading while carrying firewood so that no time is wasted, Zhu Wengzi was tormented by heaven. Obsessed with zither music, Zhong Qi knew all the woodcutters’ songs, for which today one searches only in vain. Moreover, I have heard that the mountains yield no salary, and that the Miao in search for gold drill into and topple rocks. How can there be high peaks amid the Yan’a Paradise? The mountain with high peaks is called Lanke. Oh woodcutter, oh woodcutter--how can you help it? Painting by Sha Fuqing for Guanjin laoren’s viewing. Inscribed in late spring of the dingsi year (1917) by Wu Changshuo of Anji.
Reading while carrying firewood so that no time is wasted, Zhu Wengzi was tormented by heaven. Obsessed with zither music, Zhong Qi knew all the woodcutters’ songs, for which today one searches only in vain. Moreover, I have heard that the mountains yield no salary, and that the Miao in search for gold drill into and topple rocks. How can there be high peaks amid the Yan’a Paradise? The mountain with high peaks is called Lanke. Oh woodcutter, oh woodcutter--how can you help it? Painting by Sha Fuqing for Guanjin laoren’s viewing. Inscribed in late spring of the dingsi year (1917) by Wu Changshuo of Anji.