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Lu Xiangsheng 1600-1638
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20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
- Lu Xiangsheng
- FAREWELL AT LAKE TAIHU
- ink and color on paper, hanging scroll
signed Meiyin Jushi Xiangsheng, dated xinwei (1631), the ninth lunar month, inscribed, with two seals of the artist, lu xiang sheng yin, mei yin ju shi, and three collectors' seals, mo chao mi ji, liang zhang ju jian shang yin, min shan li zuo mei shu hua tu zhang
Literature
Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese paintings: Second Series, Vol. 1, American and Canadian Collections, complied by Teisuke Toda and Hiromitsu Ogawa, University of Tokyo Press, April 1999, p. I-233, pl. A48-006
Catalogue Note
Artist's Inscriptions:
Chatting with an old friend, we think about the years that have passed. Two old bosom friends now lack hair at the temples, and we float by these many homes on autumn waters. Though already drunk I call for more wine, and I must lean against the boat to open the bottle. Today I consider the lakes and rivers, my awareness traveling far and my heart remaining behind. Hongzhi reign, renzi year (1492), ninth month, ninth day, Mister Wang Gongyu prepares to leave, and minister Wen prepares a farewell, and because I cross Tai Lake with Gongyu I make this painting and give it to him. Shen Zhou.
Xinweiyear (1631), the ninth lunar month, a friend has brought by this authentic trace of old man Shitian for me to see, and so I write this in emulation, and append an inscription, Master Meiyin, Xiangsheng.
Chatting with an old friend, we think about the years that have passed. Two old bosom friends now lack hair at the temples, and we float by these many homes on autumn waters. Though already drunk I call for more wine, and I must lean against the boat to open the bottle. Today I consider the lakes and rivers, my awareness traveling far and my heart remaining behind. Hongzhi reign, renzi year (1492), ninth month, ninth day, Mister Wang Gongyu prepares to leave, and minister Wen prepares a farewell, and because I cross Tai Lake with Gongyu I make this painting and give it to him. Shen Zhou.
Xinweiyear (1631), the ninth lunar month, a friend has brought by this authentic trace of old man Shitian for me to see, and so I write this in emulation, and append an inscription, Master Meiyin, Xiangsheng.
Note: The original Shen Zhou painting was sold at Sotheby's New York, Fine Chinese Paintings, December 5, 1985, lot 82 (illustrated on the cover).