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Ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll
Inscribed and signed Zhang Daqian, with two seals of the artist and three seals of the collectors
Dated yiyou year (1945) 49cm x 86.5cm (19¼in x 34in).
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Provenance: formerly in the collection of Professor Sheung Chung Ho (1937-2010), former Chairman of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
張大千 消夏閱書圖 設色紙本 立軸 一九四五年作
款識:乙酉(1945)重陽前日,蜀郡張大千爰製。
鈐印:張爰之印、大千
藏印:陸丹林、頡頏樓藏、宗豪過目
來源:前香港中文大學中國語言及文學系系主任常宗豪教授(1937-2010)舊藏
註:
陸丹林(1895-1972),南社社員、同盟會會員,與張大千為知交,藏有大千畫作百餘幅,1936年曾為上海中華書局出版之《張大千畫集》撰長序。
頡頏樓主人為畫家方君璧(1898-1986)及夫婿曾仲鳴(1896-1939)。
此幅張大千〈消夏閱書圖〉繪於乙酉重陽前日,即1945年10月13日。畫作構圖精巧獨到,設色明麗典雅,敦煌畫風呈現盛唐雅韻,風華絕代。圖中繪園林芭蕉數叢,透過圓形軒豁的花窗和團花錦簇的窗簾,但見一位美人嫣然側坐於朱紅几案前,憑窗閱書之餘,她的目光似乎落在了此刻正於窗外畫前凝望着她的觀者。美人的香閨中掛有古畫一幅,令整個畫面更顯層次豐富,虛實相生。再看其人物描繪,儀態嫻雅又富於動勢,眉眼開面栩栩如生,鬢髮處施以濃墨細筆,再借淡松煙墨層層渲染,色澤柔潤,清秀自然。畫中披肩織錦和窗簾團花,亦用敦煌唐人法繪成,艷麗脫俗,雍容華貴。
該作流傳有序,曾先後為張大千知交陸丹林、畫家方君璧、和教授常宗豪等多位名士鑑藏,甚是難得。

