Lot Essay
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ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE IN THE TANG PALACE
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and color on paper
96.5 x 75.7 cm. (38 x 29 3/4 in.)
Inscribed and signed in gold ink: Su county Zhang Daqian Yuan painted in the style of Tang fresco from Dunhuang Mogao caves
Dated sixteenth day, second month of dinghai year (1947)
Entitled with a lengthy colophon on Ming dynasty gold paper by the artist above and underneath the painting, with three seals
Colophon also dated second month of dinghai year (1947)
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE IN THE TANG PALACE
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and color on paper
96.5 x 75.7 cm. (38 x 29 3/4 in.)
Inscribed and signed in gold ink: Su county Zhang Daqian Yuan painted in the style of Tang fresco from Dunhuang Mogao caves
Dated sixteenth day, second month of dinghai year (1947)
Entitled with a lengthy colophon on Ming dynasty gold paper by the artist above and underneath the painting, with three seals
Colophon also dated second month of dinghai year (1947)