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Wang Zhen (1867-1938)
Cat and Rock with Banana Plant, 1917

9 October 2019, 10:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

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Wang Zhen (1867-1938)

Cat and Rock with Banana Plant, 1917
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, inscribed by the artist with a poem and signed Wang Zhen, dated dingsi (1917), with two artist's seals reading Yiting fu and cun wo, with a second inscription by Wu Changshuo, dated dingsi (1917), signed Changshuo, with a calligrapher's seal reading Wu Changshi.
153.5 x 69cm (60 1/2 x 27 1/8in)

Footnotes

Exhibited:
New Songs on Ancient Tunes, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI, August 30-October 28, 2007

Between the Thunder and the Rain, Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, San Francisco, CA, October 25, 2000-January 14, 2001

Published:
Teisuke Toda and Hiromitsu Ogawa comp., Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings, Third Series, Volume 1: American and Canadian Collections, University of Tokyo Press, 2013, A50-174, p.217

Little, Stephen, and J. May Lee Barrett, New Songs on Ancient Tunes: 19th-20th Century Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Richard Fabian Collection, Honolulu: Honolulu Museum of Art, 2007, pp.322-323

Andrews, Julia Frances, Michael Knight, and Pauline Yao, Between the Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium War Through the Cultural Revolution, 1840-1979, San Francisco: Echo Rock Ventures, in association with the Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, 2000, p.96 (detail), p.152

Provenance:
Far East Fine Arts, San Francisco, California

王震 狸貓菊石圖 設色紙本 立軸 一九一七年作

款識:
黃菊大如斗,黑狸伺於後。怕有熱中鼠輩來,誤認金印繫其肋。丁巳(1917)仲春,吳興王震。

題識:
貓思學草,貓思餐英。懷素復作,屈子再醒。丁巳(1917)三月望,一亭竗畫,昌碩題之。

鈐印:一亭父、存我
(吳)吳昌石

展覽:
《古調新歌:費立哲神父珍藏十九及二十世紀中國書畫》,檀香山藝術博物館,夏威夷,2007年8月30日至10月28日

《風雲際會:從鴉片戰爭到「文革」(1840-1979)的中國繪畫》,亞洲藝術博物館,舊金山,加州,2000年10月25日至2001年1月14日

出版:
戶田禎佑、小川裕充,《中國繪畫總合圖錄》三編,第一卷,東京大學出版會,東京,2013年,A50-174,頁217

Little, Stephen, J. May Lee Barrett,《古調新歌:費立哲神父珍藏十九及二十世紀中國書畫》,檀香山藝術博物館,夏威夷,2007年,頁322-323

Andrews, Julia Frances, Michael Knight, and Pauline Yao,《風雲際會:從鴉片戰爭到「文革」(1840-1979)的中國繪畫》,亞洲藝術博物館,李鐘文亞洲藝術文化中心,舊金山,加州,2000年,頁96(局部)及頁152

來源:
美國加州舊金山遠東藝術中心

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