Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-chien) 1899-1983

inscribed twice by the artist, signed Shuren Zhang Yuan Daqian fu and Daqian Jushi, dated gengyin, the sixteenth day of the tenth lunar month (November 25, 1950), with seven seals of the artist, zhang yuan, da qian, zhang yuan si yin, zhang yuan zhi yin, san qian da qian, da qian bo, fa jiang. Title label and frontispiece by the artist. Colophon by Li Yuying (1881-1973), signed Yuying, dated the forty-first year of the Republic (1952), with two seals, li lin shu wu, and li wu

-Overall in very good condition. -Several minor wormholes can be found on the bottom portion of the handscroll, with the largest one measuring 2 x 0.1 cm in the bottom left corner.
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