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April 9, 04:51 AM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
Qi Baishi (1864-1957)
Cabbages
ink on paper, hanging scroll
signed, with 3 seals of the artist and 1 collector's seal
118 x 32 cm 46⅜ x 12½ in.
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齊白石 清白傳家
水墨紙本 立軸
款識:三百石印富翁製。
鈐印:「木居士」、「白石翁」、「故鄉無此好天恩」。
藏印:「十洲十四世孫焱之珍藏」。
118 x 32 cm 46⅜ x 12½ in.
Formerly from the collection of Edward T. Chow (1910-1980)
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Paintings, May 1994, lot 1055
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著名收藏家仇焱之(1910-1980)舊藏
香港蘇富比,一九九四年五月,中國書畫拍賣,編號1055
EXHIBITED AND ILLUSTRATED
Switzerland, Geneva, Galleries of the Baur Collection, One Man's Taste, Treasure from the Lakeside Pavilion, 14 October, 1988 to 15 January, 1989, and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, pl.4
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展覽及著錄:瑞士,日内瓦,Galleries of the Baur Collection, 〈One Man’s Taste, Treasure from the Lakeside Pavilion〉,一九八八年十月十四日至一九八九年一月十五日,並刊於展覽目錄,圖版4
註:白石老人繪白菜,以其青白之色,以喻清白,常題曰「清白傳家」、「清白到頭」,謂「余嘗畫菜,喜書此四字,因老於濁世,竊恐忘卻清白也」,夫子自道,乃其立身濁世,藉畫以寄處身自警之喻。清末民國戰亂頻仍,社會動蕩,白石老人鬻藝謀生,交往者雖不乏名流要員,卻止於藝事,不涉其它,不逢迎官家,不屈從主顧,刻苦奮鬥、自立自强,所謂清白做人,正是畫家樸素處世觀念之體現。又兼老人出身農家,種植之事,日所慣見,筆端摭拾於周遭生活,自能飽含「蔬筍氣」之真味。
本幅以素墨寫白菜數株,堆叠錯落,菜梗以健碩之筆寥寥勾寫,肥大豐腴、潔白厚重之質感立現,菜葉交曡處,或以墨之濃淡區別,或隱隱留以白縫,層次分明。