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Lot 652
  • 652

李鱓 1686-1762

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Li Shan
  • 虛亭疏柳
  • ink on paper, hanging scroll
款識:
憶昔承旨金門,留心粉繪廿年,不作山水。
雍正七年(1729)中冬,旅食吳陵,雨雪如霰。偶同坦齋宮表兄過西村學兄齋中,出紙索畫山水。用其所短,不自知其醜矣。李鱓。

鈐印:
復堂。



藏印:
(項)項芝房審定、小天籟閣
(程)可蓭真賞、古歙程氏珍藏

Provenance

China Guardian, Beijing, Classical Chinese Paintings, May 16, 2004, Lot 1498

Condition

-Overall in good condition -Paper bears a tanned tone due to age -Minor restorations on some parts of the painting -Minor patches of light stain at the bottom of the painting
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Catalogue Note

Artist's inscription:
In memory of my past days receiving official orders at court, for twenty years I painted in color and never made landscapes.
In mid-winter of the seventh year of the Yongzheng reign (1729), I was sojourning in Wuling. Rain and snow mixed into sleet. By accident,  with my cousin Tanzhaigong, I passed by the studio of elder Xicun, who produced some paper to request a landscape. Alas, he used me at my weakness, and I was just shameless about it! Li Shan.