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Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-chien, 1899-1983) Calligraphy Couplet in Running Script image 1

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Lot 168

Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-chien, 1899-1983)
Calligraphy Couplet in Running Script

Fine Chinese Paintings

7 July 2020, 11:00 HKT

Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

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Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-chien, 1899-1983)

Calligraphy Couplet in Running Script
Ink on silk, pair of hanging scrolls
Inscribed and signed Daqian Zhang Yuan, with a dedication and two seals of the artist
Dated yiyou year (1945)
177.5 x 34.2cm (69⅞ x 13½in) each (2)

Footnotes

張大千　行書二十一言龍門聯　水墨絹本　立軸一對　一九四五年作

款識：
對滄江斜日，空白一分頭，郢客高歌，愛將蕪語追前事；問嶺外風光，化作雙飛羽，杜郎俊賞，祗有梅花是故人。集夢窗、西樵、稼軒、信齋、片玉、安陸、白石、孏窟，即乞林源先生方家正之，乙酉（1945）嘉平月，大千張爰。

鈐印：張爰之印信、大千居士

註：此聯出自邵銳《衲詞楹帖》，中國書店，北京，1989年，頁2。
邵銳（1905-1966），字茗生，齋名澹寧書屋、菰香館。浙江杭州人。父邵章，字伯絅，乃光緒二十九年進士。茗生於北京通才商業學校畢業後，歷任黑龍江省財政廳秘書、北京故宮博物院科長，考古學社社員。
據大風堂弟子巢章甫《海天樓藝話》，「茗生為伯絅先生公子，才華氣宇，皆克傳家。楷書嚴密，不減乃翁，特小者工耳。於宣德銅爐，辨析極精，著《宣爐銷志》。復集宋詞聯句，五年之中得三千焉，名曰《衲詞楹帖》。付刊之時，茗生年才二十有六，故番禺葉遐庵先生樂而敘之。當時售價銀五餅，書家輒人手一編。近久絕版，購求不易矣。」
馮幼衡著《形象之外——張大千的生活與藝術》一書中，有「素心相約佩芳蘭——大千居士談對聯藝術」一章，「大千先生認為作對子是門高深的學問，必須語出自然，如果咬文嚼字，字字必求有出處，但有拼湊的痕跡，便不值一顧」，又云曾、李二師言「做對子不僅要在辭藻上下功夫，還要在意趣、性情上著力才是。」故大千亦得一冊《衲詞楹帖》，置於書齋，時常翻閱。其四十年代常作聯書贈友人，其中寫贈張群之聯語，最為膾炙人口，「身健在，且加餐，把酒再三囑；人已老，歡尤昨，為壽百千春」，即出自《衲詞楹帖》。
大千書法，受曾農髯、李瑞清影響，遍學「三代兩漢金石文字，六朝三唐碑刻」，又對歷代法書名蹟，心慕手追，四十歲後參合黃山谷之波折變化，終成自家舒展俊朗、縱橫飄逸之風貌。
考歷年市場及文獻所見，大千行書長聯，十二言聯已屈指可數，更遑論二十一言！蓋做大字書必神完氣足、一氣呵成，方得佳構；氣息稍有斷續，便非上品矣。本幅做於乙酉（1945）嘉平月，正是大千先生敦煌返蓉，展覽頻仍，創作力最為旺盛之時；又特以素縑為材，徒增行筆難度，全幅近六尺對開，筆力雄健爽利，筆勢開闔搖曳，變化多端，正所謂「藝高人膽大」，此聯非大千先生莫辦也！

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