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Fu Baoshi

Fu Baoshi, Scholar under the Pine Tree | 傅抱石松下高士

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Fu Baoshi

1904 - 1965

Scholar under the Pine Tree

ink and colour on paper, framed

signed, dated 1943, inscribed, with a dedication and 2 seals of the artist, one of which is handpainted

Inscription:

The sound of running stream is reminiscent of cool jade, and the shade of pine diffuses a delicate fragrance. The scholar sits for a long time, alone and unknown.

Dedicated to Mr. Xianzhou. Painted on the first day of the twelfth lunar month of guiwei year at Xueweng [Chen Zhifo]'s Liuqi Lu in Shapingba, Chongqing. Fu Baoshi.

26.8 x 21 cm 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.

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傅抱石

松下高士

設色紙本鏡框一九四三年作

款識︰

泉聲散寒玉，松陰散清芬；

高人坐來久，應是寂無聞。

險舟先生法家教正。癸未十二月朔，寫於重慶沙坪壩雪翁流憩廬。傅抱石。

鈐印︰「傅」、「癸未」（手繪印）。

上款︰「險舟」即艾偉（1890-1955），原名華泳，字險舟，湖北江陵人，著名教育心理學家。上海聖約翰大學畢業，後赴美攻心理學，獲哥倫比亞大學碩士、華盛頓大學博士銜。一九二五年返國，歷任東南大學、大夏大學教授和中央大學教育學院院長。抗戰軍興，隨中央大學遷渝，創教育心理研究所並任所長，一九四一年獲教育部委任為「部聘教授」。

註：本幅繪於「雪翁流憩廬」，即寫於畫家陳之佛抗戰時期在重慶之寓所。畫上「癸未」一印，應為傅氏即席作畫，未備圖章，手繪而成。

Christie’s Hong Kong, Fine Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Chinese Paintings, 12 January 1987, lot 23.

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來源︰香港佳士得，十九至二十世紀中國書畫拍賣，1987年1月12日，編號23

The Chronicle of Fu Baoshi’s Life (Revised Edition), Ye Zonggao ed., Shanghai Classics Publishing House, December 2012, p.110

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著錄︰

〈傅抱石年譜〉（增訂本），葉宗鎬著（上海古籍出版社，二○一二年十二月），頁110

The present work was dedicated to “Xianzhou”, which was the style name of Ai Wei (1890-1955, original name Hua Yong). Born in Jiangling, Hubei Province, Ai was a prominent educational psychologist. After graduating from St. John’s University in Shanghai, he went to study in the United States and obtained his Master of Psychology at Columbia University and Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Following his return to China in 1925, he taught as Professor at Southeast University and The Great China University respectively, and later became the chair of the education department at National Central University. With the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the subsequent relocation of National Central University to Chongqing, Ai also moved to the same city and founded the Research Centre of Educational Psychology and served as its director. Later in 1941, he attained a distinguished professorship “appointed by the Ministry of Education”.

According to the artist’s inscription, the work was painted at Chen Zhifo’s apartment in Chongqing during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The seal mark “guiwei”, instead of imprinted, was hand drawn by Fu, suggesting that the artist had improvised the work without having his stone seal at hand.