S otheby’s Fine Chinese Paintings is delighted to present over 200 exquisite modern Chinese paintings this Spring. Estimated around HK$200 million, highlights include Zhang Daqian’s six-foot splashed ink and colour landscape, ‘Misty Mountains of Qingcheng’, Xu Beihong’s gift to a Southeast Asian patron, ‘Drunken Zhong Kui’, and a series of Wu Guanzhong’s artworks covering a vast range of media such as watercolour, sketches and ink and colour paintings, including ‘Wisteria’, which has participated in various large scale exhibitions of the artist.
This sale also features works from various collections with impeccable provenances, including Redologist professor Kang and Jessica Chao’s collection of works gifted from other redologists such as Yu Pingbo, Zhou Ruchang and Qi Gong, etc., revolutionary Huang Longsheng’s collection of calligraphies of political leaders Sun Wen and Hu Hanmin, Sir Run Run Shaw's property, Feng Kanghou’s family collection, and gifts from Zhang Daqian to his friends in America and Brazil.
Lastly, headlining the sale is Zhang Daqian’s extraordinary masterpiece, 'Landscape after Wang Ximeng'. Fresh to the market, this blue and green landscape was painted in 1948 during the pinnacle of the artist’s height of traditional elaborated landscapes for his exhibition in Shanghai in the same year. It was then added to Shanghai socialite Sun Zhifei’s collection and has since been passed down through the family. Apart from exhibiting temporarily in Shanghai Museum and the National Art Museum of China in 1983, this masterpiece has not been shown to the public for forty years.
今春，香港蘇富比中國書畫拍賣將推出逾二百幀近現代名家作品，總估價近兩億港元，焦點包括張大千之六呎潑墨潑彩鉅製〈煙寰青城圖〉、徐悲鴻贈檳城僑領之〈鍾馗進酒圖〉、吳冠中一系列水彩、素描、彩墨畫，包括參與多項大型展覽之代表作〈紫藤〉等。同場集多項收藏專輯，如紅學家趙岡、陳鍾毅伉儷之書法收藏，網羅紅學界仝道如俞平伯、周汝昌、啟功等書法作品、民國革命先驅黃隆生藏孫文及胡漢民寫贈之書法等，亦及邵逸夫爵士收藏近現代名家書畫、馮康侯家屬收藏書畫及印譜，以及張大千寫贈美國、巴西友人之書畫等，琳琅滿目。本場重點所在，乃滬上名流孫志飛家族收藏書畫，當中，張大千鈎金青綠重彩劇迹〈仿王希孟千里江山圖〉最為矚目。此幅乃一九四八年上海〈張大千近作展〉展品，列為非賣品，後入孫氏手中，奉若拱璧，僅於一九八三年借展上海博物館及北京中國美術館，睽違四十載，再度面世，殊為可貴！
Zhang Daqian
Landscape after Wang Ximeng
ink and colour on silk, hanging scroll, 1947
133.6 x 72.8 cm 52 5/8 x 28 5/8 in.
Estimate Upon Request
張大千 仿王希孟〈千里江山圖〉
設色絹本 立軸 一九四七年作
133.6 x 72.8 cm 52 5/8 x 28 5/8 in.
估價待詢
離離眾樹深，靄靄孤雲碧；山色望難窮，江流浩無極。
漁謌遠渚昏，島下平蕪夕；惆悵涉風波，扁舟何處客。
丁亥嘉平月，仿北宋王希孟〈千里江山圖〉。希孟為道君皇帝親授，神玅直到秋豪，傳世僅此一卷，當與天球、河圖同珍也。蜀郡張大千爰。
