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星洲私人收藏徐悲鴻精品(編號3096-3097) | Paintings from a Singaporean Private Collection (Lots 3096-3097)

徐悲鴻 Xu Beihong | 天馬凌雲 Galloping Horse

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October 11, 09:48 AM GMT

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4,000,000 - 6,000,000 HKD

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Paintings from a Singaporean Private Collection (Lots 3096-3097)

Xu Beihong (1895-1953)

Galloping Horse


ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll

signed, dated 1939, with one seal of the artist

79.3 x 104.5 cm 31¼x 41⅛in.

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星洲私人收藏徐悲鴻精品(編號3096-3097)

徐悲鴻 (1895-1953)

天馬凌雲


設色紙本 立軸 一九三九年作


款識:

培元先生於我星洲之展多所助力,寫奉紀念。廿八年十一月。悲鴻。


鈐印:「東海王孫」。


來源︰黃培元家屬收藏


註︰抗戰軍興,徐悲鴻為支援前線,赴南洋舉辦畫展,出售作品,籌募經費,捐賑難民。逗留星洲期間,獲不少當地殷商大力支持。一九三九年三月中旬,他在新加坡維多利亞紀念堂舉行規模最盛之個展,黃培元即贊助者之一,本幅題謂「於我星洲之展多所助力」,即誌念此事。


本幅寫於是年十一月,即徐氏轉赴印度前夕,時國內戰況危急,故作畫贈友,多以砥勵士氣,激揚鬥志為題,如蒼鷹凌空,如猛獅側目,本幅赤馬驍騰疾馳,四蹄凌空,目光炯炯,通幅筆墨恣放,神氣煥然,即寄凌雲之志。馬軀塗赭紅,坡地以青綠敷之,碧草茵茵,設色鮮亮明快。按是年畫家形式相類之大幅駿馬,如寫贈企業家陳溫祥〈競足千里〉,或寫予好友楊德純〈奔馬〉,受贈者俱為畫家藝術生涯中舉足輕重之贊助人或知己藏家,畫家出此酬之,足見對黃氏感念之重。按星洲於一九四一年淪陷,不少徐悲鴻作品或燬或埋,破損霉爛亟多,本幅悉心保存至今,仍光采燦然,殊堪難得!


79.3 x 104.5 cm 31¼x 41⅛in.

Gift from the artist to Ng Poey (1882-1968) in 1939 and thence by family descent