Lot 620
  • 620

Lu Hui 1851-1920

Estimate
35,000 - 55,000 USD
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Description

  • Lu Hui
  • FIGURE PAINTINGS AFTER OLD MASTERS
  • ink and color on silk, album of ten leaves
(1) signed Lianfu Hui, with one seal of the artist, lian fu
(2) signed Wujiang Lu Hui, with one seal of the artist, lian fu
(3) signed Lianfu Lu Hui, with one seal of the artist, lu hui zhi yin
(4) signed Lu Hui, with one seal of the artist, lian fu
(5) signed Hui, with one seal of the artist, lian fu
(6) signed Lu Hui, with one seal of the artist, lian fu
(7) signed Hui, with one seal of the artist, wu jiang lu hui
(8) signed Lianfu, with one seal of the artist, lian fu 
(9) with one seal of the artist, wu jiang lu hui
(10) signed Lianfu, with one seal of the artist, lu hui zhi yin

Exhibited

1. Heritage of the Brush: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, March 18- May 7, 1989; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, March 8-April 22, 1990; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, September 28-November 24, 1991; Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, October 25-December 27, 1992; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, April 18-June 20, 1993; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 29-March 20, 1994; Crocker Art Museum, California, October 30-December 31, 1997; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, January 31-March 28, 1999; Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, October 3-December 10, 2000
2. 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. Heritage of the Brush: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, 1989, cat. 44, pp. 122-125
2. Marsha Weidner, "Art and Entertainment: An Album by Lu Hui", in Marsha Weidner (Ed.), Perspectives on the Heritage of the Brush, University of Kansas, 1997, fig. 24-33, pp. 79-96
3. Claudia Brown, "Chinese Scholars' Rocks and the Land of Immortals: Some insights from Painting", in Robert Mowry, Worlds within worlds: The Richard Rosenblum collection of Chinese scholars' rocks, Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums, 1997, fig. 10, p. 75
4. Claudia Brown, "Where Immortals Dwell: Shared Symbolism in Painting and Scholar's Rocks", in Oriental Art, vol. XLIV, 1998, no. 1, fig. 1, p. 16
5. Jacqueline Jennifer Chao, Tradition in Transition: The Art and Life of Lu Hui (1851-1920) (Master's thesis), Arizona State University, 2008, p. 124

Condition

- Overall in good condition except silk bears tanned tone due to age.
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