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Global Head, Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy
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Global Head, Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy

Senior Vice President, US Head, Asian Art Group
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.