A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> set of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=history+of+painting&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The History of Modern Painting</a> by Richard Muther.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Richard Muther (German).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Henry &amp; Co.,&nbsp;1895.</li><li>Bound by Sotheran in three-quarters brown morocco and linen boards with the covers and raised ban spines gilt-tooled, top edges gilt with marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The History of Modern Painting

The Venetian edition of A History of Painting.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 8 volumes.</li><li>Haldane Macfall (British).</li><li>Preface by Frank Brangwyn.</li><li>Boston: Dana Estes &amp; Co., 1910.</li><li>Illustrated with 200 plates in color.</li><li>This edition is limited to 124 numbered copies, of which this is no. 12.</li><li>Bound in three-quarter brown morocco and linen boards with the covers and raised band spines decorated in gilt-tooling, the top edges are gilt with marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

A History of Painting

Fine Chinese Paintings

ink and colour on paper, framed signed, with 1 seal of the artist EXHIBITED Tokyo, Seibu Gallery, 60 Years in Painting - A Master of Modern Chinese Painting: Lin Fengmian Exhibition, 1986 Taipei, Museum of History, Lin Feng-Mien’s 90th Birthday Retrospective Exhibition, October 1989 Hong Kong, Museum of Art, A Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting: The Art of Lin Fengmian, Apr 4 – 3 Jun 2007 ILLUSTRATED 60 Years in Painting - A Master of Modern Chinese Painting: Lin Fengmian Exhibition, Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, 1986, pl.45 The Paintings of LIN FENG-MIEN, Museum of History, Taipei, October 1989, pl.48 The Paintings of LIN FENG-MIEN, Museum of History, Taipei, October 1989, postcard A Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting: The Art of Lin Fengmian, Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong, Mar 2007, p.142 PROVENANCE From the collection of Feng Yeh 69.7 x 69.5 cm 27½ x 27⅜ in. 林風眠　寶蓮燈 設色紙本　鏡框 款識：林風眠。 鈐印：「林風瞑印」。 展覽︰ 東京，西武百貨店，〈畫業60年‧現代中國之巨匠—林風眠繪畫展〉，一九八六年 臺北，歷史博物館，〈林風眠九十回顧展〉，一九八九年十月 香港藝術館，〈世紀先驅—林風眠藝術展〉，二○○七年四月四日至六月三日 著錄︰ 〈畫業60年‧現代中國之巨匠—林風眠繪畫展〉（東京，西武百貨店，一九八六年），圖版45 〈林風眠畫集〉（臺北，歷史博物館，一九八九年十月），圖版48 〈林風眠畫集〉（明信片）（臺北，歷史博物館，一九八九年十月） 〈世紀先驅 — 林風眠藝術展〉（香港，康樂及文化事務署，二○○七年三月），頁142 來源︰馮葉收藏 註：五十年代初，畫家迷上傳統戲劇，謂從分場中領悟到西方立體主義的時空觀念，得以在靜態的平面上表達時間綿延的連續感，遂漸納戲劇人物為題材，開創嶄新繪畫形式 ，「寶蓮燈」即其喜愛選用的劇目之一。劇中之三聖母與他筆下的白蛇、青蛇、虞姬等等，俱頌揚女性在封建桎梏中抗衡命運的積極精神，劇終「劈山救母」、「母子團圓」的經典橋段，也許正是年少失母的林風眠嚮往的圓滿結局。 本幅未署年，按東京、臺北及香港三項大型個展圖錄所示，乃畫家一九八三年所作。較之早期同題材之作，畫面結構相類，色調捨沉鬱，轉趨濃豔鮮明，視覺效果強烈，這或反映畫家移居香江安頓後，心境漸趨閒適安然。 畫中人物前後分佈，呈鼎立之勢，雙臂舞動，水袖舒張，層層白紗透出明黃光暈，如寶蓮燈光芒普照，亦似舞台燈光映射。背景以幾何折線交疊，呈現錯落的光影變化，在閃爍的瞬間為畫面賦予具節奏感的動態，張力滿盈。畫家日後親選參加東京及臺北個展，重要性自不待言。

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林風眠　寶蓮燈 | lin fengmian, lotus lantern

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