Lot Essay
Although he was born in Shanghai, Ye Xin spent most of his life in Nanjing. There he became known as one of the Eight Masters of Nanjing and speciaized in landscape paintings.
Details
YE XIN (active 1648-1669)
Landscapes
Album of eight leaves, ink and color on paper, each leaf measures 5¾ x 7in. (14.5 x 17.5cm.)
Six leaves entitled and last leaf signed: "Painted by Ye Xin at the Ten Thousand Pines Buddhist Temple"
Dated Changxia (Summer Solstice) of guimao year (1663)
Total of nine seals of the artist, one or two per leaf: Ye Xin (three times), Rong Mu (four times), Ye Xin Zhi Yin, Chen Xin
Landscapes
Album of eight leaves, ink and color on paper, each leaf measures 5¾ x 7in. (14.5 x 17.5cm.)
Six leaves entitled and last leaf signed: "Painted by Ye Xin at the Ten Thousand Pines Buddhist Temple"
Dated Changxia (Summer Solstice) of guimao year (1663)
Total of nine seals of the artist, one or two per leaf: Ye Xin (three times), Rong Mu (four times), Ye Xin Zhi Yin, Chen Xin
Provenance
Richard Bryant Hobart Collection
Literature
Lippe, Aschwin, "Kung Hsien and the Nanking School, Part II", Ars Orientalis, 1958, p. 167