Lot 590
  • 590

Zhang Pengchong 1688-1745

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Zhang Pengchong
  • BRUSH MARKS IN BLUE AND GREEN
  • ink and color on paper, handscroll
signed Zhang Pengchong, with one seal of the artist, peng chong
Frontispiece by Qian Chenqun (1686-1774), signed Xiangshu Laoren, dated jimao (1699), with three seals, han mo chuan xiang shi, qian, xiang shu
With one collector's seal of Zhang Shaoren (Qing dynasty), zhang shi zhi jing tang cang

Exhibited

Heritage of the Brush: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, March 18- May 7, 1989; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, March 8-April 22, 1990; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, September 28-November 24, 1991; Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, October 25-December 27, 1992; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, April 18-June 20, 1993; Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 29-March 20, 1994; Crocker Art Museum, California, October 30-December 31, 1997; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, January 31-March 28, 1999; Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, October 3-December 10, 2000

Literature

1. Heritage of the Brush: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, 1989, cat. 28, pp. 82-83
2. Claudia Brown, "Heritage of the Brush: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting", in Orientations, vol. 22, no. 9, September 1991, fig. 10, p. 81

Condition

- Overall in good condition except minor dirt.
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Catalogue Note

Artist's inscription:
The Song masters' method of using mineral blue and green colors was truly mastered only by Shitian (Shen Zhou, 1427-1509). On a leisurely autumn day, I am casually following this idea and wonder what my friend Muweng thinks about it.
- Heritage of the Brush, p. 82