Lot 610
  • 610

Tang Yifen 1778-1853

Estimate
20,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Tang Yifen
  • VILLAGE AMONG LOFTY MOUNTAIN
  • ink and color on paper, hanging scroll
signed Yusheng Tang Yifen, dated guiwei (1823), the second lunar month, with one seal of the artist, xiang gu

Exhibited

Scent of Ink: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, September 2-October 9, 1994; The Chrysler Museum, Virginia, November 13, 1994-January 8, 1995; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, September 9-November 11, 1995; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, December 15, 1995-February 18, 1996; China Institute, New York, February 4-June 10, 1998

Literature

Scent of Ink: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, 1994, cat. 35, pp. 114-119

Condition

- Paper bear tanned tone due to age. - Restoration of paper loss can be found. - Minor dirt and foxing.
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Catalogue Note

Artist's inscription: 
The flowing stream winds its [way], its bubbling sound echoing through empty hills;
The inhabitants in the hills live their lives in leisure.
They saw the rise of mists around four directions;
Where the sound of bells travel far through the green cliffs.
Scent of Ink, p. 128