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XUGU (1824-1896) Cat, Rock and Narcissus
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XUGU (1824-1896)
Ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll
Signed Xugu, with two artist's seal
Titleslip inscribed and signed Kanghau, with one seal
129 x 32.2cm (50¾ x 12⅝in)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Previously in the Collection of Ku Tam Ming (1904-1973)
Published:
The Paintings of Xugu and Qi Baishi, The University of Washington Press, Seattle, January 1993, p. 118-120
Collection of Modern Chinese Paintings-Collection of Cao Mozhai, Vol. I Shanghai Paintings and Calligraphy Publishing House, Shanghai, July 2010, p. 264-265
Juefei An Xugu: yi quan da po qu lai jin, Breaking through the Past to Modernity: The Art of Xugu, Beijing Liangyou Huayi, Beijing, 2012, no. 9
Modern Ink: The Art of Xugu, The Mozhai Foundation, Berkeley; University of Hawaiʻi Press, Honlulu, January 2015, p. 64-67
虛谷 貓石水仙 設色紙本 立軸
馮康侯署簽
簽條︰虛谷水仙貓軸。多勝齋藏。康侯僉。
款識:
覺非盦虛谷。
鈐印︰
〈虛谷〉虛谷、三十七峯草堂
〈馮康侯〉老康
來源:
顧澹明舊藏
顧澹明(1904-1973),齋號「蘊正齋」、「多勝齋」,精鑒賞,富收藏。其子顧家輝乃香港著名音樂人,其女顧媚則以丹青名世。
出版:
《虛谷及齊白石畫集》,(西雅圖)華盛頓大學出版社,一九九三年一月,頁118至120
《近現代中國繪畫集萃——曹氏墨齋藏》(一),(上海)上海書畫出版社,二〇一〇年七月,頁264至265
《覺非盦虛谷:一拳打破去來今》,(北京)北京良友華藝,二〇一二年,圖版9
《現代水墨——虛谷藝術》,(柏克萊)墨齋基金會;(檀香山)夏威夷大學出版社,二〇一五年一月,頁64至67
註︰本幅繪一隻憨態可掬的白貓正趴在石上,虛谷擷取生活一景,極具閑情逸趣。畫法簡潔明快,白貓以墨線點出外輪廓,再施以白色。奇石全用深墨乾濕並用,石下部兩側略有飛白枯筆,運筆平直,以側鋒作垂直方向順勢而下,給人十分簡練的感覺。水仙則簇擁在一起,以墨線鈎勒,並襯以水分較大淡墨暈染其根部。作品具有一定裝飾情趣,色彩虛實變化富有層次,貓、石、水仙在造型上極為精簡、單純,有獨具天趣,絕無造作之意的清新美感。

