LOT DETAILS

Materials:

splashed ink and color on paper

Measurements:

82.28 in. (209.00 cm.) (height) by 36.30 in. (92.20 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed YUAN, dated 1982, inscribed, with four seals of the artist, and one collector's seal, Inscription Planting Plum Trees Upon The Twin Streams, I Grew Old And Weary Of The Noisy City; Who Can Believe When A Chao Arrived, That Earthly Peach Blossom Spring Was Just a Dream, and inscribed it on this painting

Exhibited:

Taipei, National Museum of History, Paintings and Calligraphy of Chang Dai-chien, January, 1983. Singapore, National Museum of Singapore, The Art of Chang Da-chien, June 10 to 24, 1984. Hong Kong Arts Centre; National Musuem of History, Taiwan, Pao Sui Loong Galleries, Art of Chang Dai-Chien (Zhang Daqian), May 17 to June 24, 1985. Washington D.C., Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Challenging the Past - The Paintings of Chang Dai-Chien, November 24, 1991 to April 5, 1992. New York, The Asia Society Gallery, Challenging the Past - The Paintings of Chang Dai-Chien, April 29 to July 19, 1992. St. Louis Art Museum, U.S.A., Challenging the Past - The Paintings of Chang Dai-Chien, August 28 to October 25, 1992. Guggenheim Museum, New York, A Century in Crisis - Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China, February 6 to May 24, 1998

Literature:

The Paintings and Calligraphy of Chang Dai-Chien, vol. 5, National Museum of History, Taipei, October 1983, slipcase cover and pl. 81. The Art of Chang Da-chien, Singapore Cultural Foundation, 1984, pl. 81. The Art of Chang Dai-Chien (Zhang Daqian), exhibition cat., Hong Kong Arts Centre, 1985, cover and exhibit 78. Research on Zhang Daqian's Paintings, Master dissertation by Ba Dong, Fine Arts Research Institute, National Taiwan Normal University, May 1987, p.190. Twentieth-Century Chinese Painting, edited by Mayching Kao, Oxford University Press, September 22, 1988, cover and p.22. Chinese Painting by Chang Da-chien, Art Book Co. Ltd., Taipei, October 1988, pl.52. Paintings by Zhang Daqian, edited by Lin Jiantong, Tai Tung Printing Company Limited, Hong Kong, 1990, cover. Challenging the Past - The Paintings of Chang Dai-Chien, written by Fu Shen, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1991, pl.85. Paintings and Calligraphy Works of Zhang Daqian, vol. 1, People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1991, pl. 166. Chang Dai-chien: Challenging the Past, Hsiung Shih Art Monthly, issue 250, written by Fu Shen, Hsiung Shih Publishing House, Taipei, December 1991, p.167. Zhang Daqian's Cloud and Mountain in Splashed Ink, Hsiung Shih Publishing House, Taipei, October 1992, p. 150-151. Sotheby's Hong Kong Twenty Years (1973-1993), Sotheby's HK Ltd., Woods Publishing Company, 1993, pl.657. Han Mo 39, Special Study on Zhang Daqian's Landscape Paintings, Han Mo Xuan Publishing Co. Ltd., Hong Kong, April 1993, p.E19. A Master in Chinese Paintings - Chang Dai-chien, Taiwan Mac Group, January 1997, p.120. A Century in Crisis - Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth Century China, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1998, pl.178. The World of Chang Dai-chien, written by Fu Shen, Shi Jr Tang Press Co. Ltd., Taipei, September 1998, p.27. Centenary Exhibition of Zhang Daqian's Paintings, exhibition guide, China Times Publishing Co., Taipei, September 20, 1998, p.19. Biography and Art of Zhang Daqian, Zhong Guo Wen Zhi Chu Ban She, Beijing, January 1999, color plate 26

Provenance:

Previously in the Chai Sian Kwan Collection. Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Paintings, May 1987, Lot 98. Previously in the the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection