CAT ON A ROCK

Details

PAN TIANSHOU (1897-1971)
Cat on a Rock
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and color on paper
Signed by the artist: Leipotoufeng Shou, with two seals
Two collector's seals
34½ x 26¾ in. (87.6 x 67.9 cm.)

Provenance

Christie's, New York, Fine Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy, 3 June 1987, lot 150.

Literature

K. Ruitenbeek, Discarding the Brush: Gao Qipei 1660-1734 and the Art of Chinese Finger Painting, Amsterdam, 1992, pp. 56, 63-64 and 288-89, pl. 93

Exhibited

Rijksmuseum, Discarding the Brush: Gao Qipei 1660-1734 and the Art of Chinese Finger Painting, Amsterdam, 12 December 1992 - 28 February 1993.

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Lot Essay

As discussed by Klaas Ruitenbeek, Pan Tianshou was one of the most important finger painters in 20th-century China. In the 1960s he employed this technique frequently to produce some of his most expressive and innovative works. His large depiction of two vultures on a rock, now in the Pan Tianshou Memorial Museum, and signed with the same artistic name, displays the same jagged strokes, wet palette, and watchful creatures (X. Yang, Tracing the Past Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in Twentieth-Century China, Palo Alto, 2010, pp. 394-5).

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