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Gao Jianfu (1879-1951)
Nepalese Stone Bust

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

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Gao Jianfu (1879-1951)

Nepalese Stone Bust
Hanging scroll, ink on paper, inscribed and signed by the artist Jianfu, with three artist's seals reading Jianfu, Lun, and Gao Lun changshou; lower inscription, ink on gold-flecked paper, written and signed by Yang Shanshen (1913-2004), with three artist's seals reading Shanshen, Yang, and Da Zizai.
Painting: 55.9 x 33cm (22 x 13in)
Inscription: 32.4 x 33cm (12 3/4 x 13in)

Footnotes

Exhibited:
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, A50-108, p.211

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, pp.204-205

Provenance:
Far East Fine Arts, San Francisco, California

高劍父 尼泊爾世尊石像 水墨紙本 立軸
楊善深題跋

款識:
尼泊爾世尊石像。劍父敬摹。

題跋:
念到心空佛也忘,千年暗室忽生光。劍師旅居尼泊爾時,以所摹世尊石像贈山笑三兄留念,善深為誌。

鈐印:(高)劍父、崙、高崙長壽
(楊)善深、楊、大自在

展覽:
《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,A50-108,頁211

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204-205

來源:
美國加州舊金山遠東藝術中心

題跋上款:「山笑三兄」應為鄺山笑(1909-1976),原名劍飛,廣東台山人。粵劇名伶及電影明星,三十年代來港發展電影事業,有「風流小生」之名,一生出演一百二十多部電影。其書畫收藏量豐質精,以粵籍同輩畫家為主,於香江素有聲名。他與趙少昂、楊善深(同為台山人)等淵源頗深,嘗於一九四八年,與趙少昂、陳荊鴻等於香港發起成立中國近代書畫匯。

一九三〇年底,高劍父赴印度考察藝術並舉辦個人畫展,期間遍遊諸省,並緬甸、錫蘭、不丹、尼泊爾、波斯、埃及各國,凡美術院、博物院、梵宮古剎,莫不參觀臨摹。據楊善深跋,本幅即為遊尼泊爾期間所橅,並贈予鄺氏留念。

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