Lot 557
  • 557

尤求 (活躍于1540-1590年間)

Estimate
65,000 - 85,000 USD
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Description

  • You Qiu
  • 渡海羅漢
  • ink on paper, handscroll
款識:丁亥(一五八七)伏日,吳門尤求拜寫。鈐印:求

引首:尤子求度海羅漢卷。歲次蟬焉仲秋,東官鄧尔疋。鈐印:羅漢肖形印、鄧尔雅字爾疋、臣尔疋



題跋:明尤求字子求,號鳳邱,長州人,後返居太倉。畫宗劉松年,山水人物竝偁絕技。此卷白描精緻,意象欲生。信為超心鍊冶之作,殊不讓仇十州也。龍起蟬焉仲秋,鄧尔疋。鈐印:羅漢肖形印、鄧尔疋



鑒藏印:(丁念先)念聖廔收藏書畫記
野屋審定、玉屏山人、□先審定

Provenance

1. Niansheng lou (Ding Nianxian) collection.
2. Sotheby's New York, Fine Chinese Paintings, December 4, 1986, lot 4

Exhibited

1. Heritage of the Brush (exhibition detail see lot 552)
2. Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850-1850, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, August 27-October 9, 1994; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, November 30, 1994-January 29, 1995
3. Lyrical Traditions: Four Centuries of Chinese Paintings from the Papp Collection, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, June 22-October 7, 2007
4. Intimate Escapes: Navigating Social Currents in Ming-Qing China, Phoenix Art Museum, Summer 2009

Literature

1. Heritage of the Brush: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, 1989, cat. 4, pp. 30-33
2. Marsha Weidner (Ed.), Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850-1850, The University of Kansas, 1994, cat. 52, pp. 366-372
3. Janet Baker, "From the Profound to the Mundane: Depictions of Lohans in Late Ming China", in Claudia Brown (Ed.), Myriad Points of View, Arizona State University, Phoebus 9, 2006, fig. 3, 4, pp. 108-110

Condition

- Paper with wormholes and small areas of loss. - Faint foxing spots can be found.
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