
Michael Hughes
Vice President and Head of Department
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Vice President and Head of Department

Global Head, Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy
齊白石 蝦 水墨紙本 立軸
PROVENANCE
Far East Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, December 1966
PUBLISHED
Gallis, Michael and Ma Xinle, Michael Gallis Collection of Chinese Paintings Maike Gailesi Zhongguo hua shoucang: yige Xifang xuezhe de Zhonghua wenhua zhilü, Tianjin Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 2019, pp.148-149
來源
舊金山遠東藝術畫廊,1966年12月
出版
馬欣樂主編,《邁克·蓋勒斯中國畫收藏:一個西方學者的中華文化之旅》,天津人民美術出版社,2019年,頁148-149
This energetic panoply of six shrimp, whose myriad legs and feelers are at once individually delineated while also overlapping and extending in all directions, is a later and larger work than the preceding example (lot 210). In addition to being an especially energetic and skillful rendition of Qi Baishi's frequent subject, Michael Gallis points out that it was unusual for the artist to append a lengthy poem to his painting of shrimp. Moreover, while this poem superficially speaks of fat crabs, shrimp and dragons, painted in the turbulent period of 1947, it is, in fact, likely a subtle and rare political commentary by the artist.
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