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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MICHAEL GALLIS
Lot 211

Qi Baishi (1864-1957)
Shrimp

15 March 2021, 10:00 EDT
New York

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Qi Baishi (1864-1957)

Shrimp
Hanging scroll, ink on paper, inscribed by the artist with a poem, and signed Baishi with an artist's seal reading Muren, and a collector's seal of Tsao Jungying.
40 x 13 1/2in (100 x 34.2cm)

Footnotes

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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