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Lot 239

Zhou Chen (1460-1535)
Zhang Liang and Huang Shigong

21 September 2020, 12:00 EDT
New York

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Zhou Chen (1460-1535)

Zhang Liang and Huang Shigong
Ink and color on gold-flecked paper, the fan leaf mounted, signed Dongcun Zhou Chen with one artist's seal Zhou shi Shunqin.
7 5/8 x 21 1/8in (19.5 x 53.5cm)

Footnotes

周臣 圯上敬履 設色紙本 扇面

Provenance
Kaikodo, New York City
Jean-Pierre Dubosc (1904-1988), Lugano, Switzerland and Kamakura, Japan

來源
紐約懷古堂畫廊
Jean-Pierre Dubosc (1904-1988), 瑞士及日本鐮倉


As a Suzhou figure and landscape painter during the Ming dynasty, Zhou Chen was surpassed in fame by his two students Tang Yin (1470-1524) and Qiu Ying (died after 1552), even serving as a ghost painter for the former. Here the artist depicts the Han dynasty General Zhang Liang (died 168 BCE) returning a Daoist hermit's shoe. As recorded in the Shiji, their fateful meeting on a bridge occurred while Zhang Liang was living in exile following a failed assassination attempt on Qin Shihuangdi. After the General returned the shoe, the hermit presented him with Huang Shigong San Lue (The Three Strategy's of Huang Shigong), a treatise on military strategy, that allowed Zhang Liang to transform into an adept statesmen and war theorist.

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