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「默齋」曹仲英先生舊藏中國書畫 (編號101-143)
Lot 122

WANG ZHEN (1867-1938)
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24 October – 7 November 2025, 12:00 HKT
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WANG ZHEN (1867-1938)

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Ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll
Inscribed and signed Bailong shanren Wang Zhen, with three artist's seals
Dated guihai year (1923)
148.5 x 78.8cm (58½ x 31⅛in)

Footnotes

Published:
Collection of Modern Chinese Paintings-Collection of Cao Mozhai, Vol. II, Shanghai Paintings and Calligraphy Publishing House, Shanghai, July 2010, p. 416-417

王震 荷花 設色紙本 立軸 一九二三年作

款識:
蓮花紅白颺參差,一樣微馨水氣吹。
聞說鑒湖開曉鏡,濃妝淡抹總時宜。癸亥夏五月,白龍山人王震寫。

鈐印:王震大利、一亭、本來無一物

出版:
《近現代中國繪畫集萃——曹氏墨齋藏》(二),(上海)上海書畫出版社,二〇一〇年七月,頁416至417

註:此幅《荷花》爲王震五十七歲所作,較為典型而集中地反映了其所學兩種風格的和諧統一。任伯年雖然較少以荷花入畫,但其以墨帶色、渾融中見清俊的賦色特點,大小聚合、平疊中擠壓空間的構圖豐富性都被王震巧妙地轉化於此幅荷花中;尤其是花朵設色的豐富漸變、滋潤清透而不乏物理,是王氏的巧用、活用。而荷柄的金石意味,整體構圖採用「S」形,詩文題字縱向貫穿畫面,顯然都脫胎於吳昌碩。
全畫氣勢充盈而完滿,筆墨與物形也達到較高層次的融合從王震題詩中的「濃妝淡抹總時宜」來看,王氏也應是較爲滿意這幅作品的。吳昌碩曾在《白龍山人傳》中這樣寫道「暇即作畫,佈置結構,似不甚思索,而天然高雅盎然於縑素間」,從其傳世的作品數量及精品看來,確爲是評。——鄧鋒

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