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Xu Beihong (1895-1953)
Moonlight Landscape

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

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Xu Beihong (1895-1953)

Moonlight Landscape
Hanging scroll, ink on paper, signed Beihong on the lower right, with one artist's seal reading Xu, inscribed on the lower left by Liao Jingwen (1923-2015) and dated September 1985, followed by her seal reading Jingwen; there is a title inscription above the painting written by Wu Zuoren (1908-1997) in seal script, dated autumn 1985 (yichou), with one seal reading Wu Zuoren yin.
Poetry hall: 22.9 x 50.8cm (9 x 20in)
Painting: 70 x 50.8cm (24 x 20in)

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, A50-265, p.225

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.522-523

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.232

Provenance:
Far East Fine Arts, San Francisco, California
Christie's Hong Kong, Fine 19th & 20th Century Chinese Paintings, 18 January 1988, lot 138

徐悲鴻 煙林月照圖 水墨紙本 立軸
吳作人題詩堂 廖靜文題識

詩堂:
煙林月照。一九八五年乙丑(1985)秋盡,作人題。

款識:
悲鴻。

題識:
清輝。靜文題悲鴻舊作。一九八五年九月。

鈐印:(徐)徐
(廖)靜文
(吳)吳作人印

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,A50-265,頁225

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522-523

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232

來源:
美國加州舊金山遠東藝術中心
佳士得香港,《十九及二十世紀中國書畫》,1988年1月18日,拍品編號138

註:悲鴻平生所做山水不多,蓋因其「最恨八股式山水」,主張改良,反對筆墨陳陳相因,謂董香光、王石谷乃「未見過崇山峻嶺,閉門畫了一輩子的人造來山水」,故其山水盡以實景入畫,多採西畫構圖,擯棄傳統皴法,而依墨色的濃淡變化表現光影明晦,傳世作品如一九三七年往來貴陽途中所寫〈灕江春雨〉(曾藏於中國美術家協會)以及一九四〇年印度所寫〈喜馬拉雅山〉(現藏於徐悲鴻紀念館),皆為悲鴻盛年山水的典型。本幅未署年款,就構圖、筆法及風格視之,與上述作品如出一轍,應寫於相若時期。

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