Lot 680
  • 680

DAI XI 1801-1860 | LANDSCAPE AFTER WANG MENG

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Dai Xi
  • LANDSCAPE AFTER WANG MENG
  • ink and color on paper, hanging scroll
  • 61.9 by 37.9 cm. 24 3/8  by 15 in. 
signed Chunshi biaodi Dai Xi, dated dingyou (1837), the twelfth lunar month, with a dedication and one seal of the artist, lu chuang shi hua

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
Transcending Turmoil: Painting at the Close of China's Empire 1796-1911, Phoenix Art Museum, August 22-October 4, 1992; Denver Art Museum, November 7, 1992-January 3, 1993; Honolulu Academy of Arts, March 17-April 19, 1993; Hong Kong Museum of Art, May 14-July 18, 1993

Literature

Jinshi jia Shuhua Ji, Tokyo: Nigensha, reprint of the Shanghai 1924 edition, 1976, vol. 1, p. 229
Heritage of the Brush: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, 1989, cat. 41, pp. 118-119
Jane Wai-Yee Leong, The Art of Dai Xi (1801-1860) (Master's thesis), Arizona State University, 1991, fig. 8
Transcending Turmoil: Painting at the Close of China's Empire 1796-1911, Phoenix Art Museum, 1992, cat. 14, pp. 52-53
Chu-Tsing Li, "Looking at Late Qing Painting with New Eyes", in Ju-hsi Chou (Ed.), Art at the Close of China's Empire, Arizona State University, Phoebus 8, 1998, fig. 1, p. 23

Condition

- Paper bears tanned tone due to age. - Restoration of paper loss.
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