WEN ZHENGMING (1470-1559)
WEN ZHENGMING (1470-1559)
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FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION (LOT 818)
WEN ZHENGMING (1470-1559)

Landscape in the Style of Wu Zhen and Calligraphy

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WEN ZHENGMING (1470-1559)
Landscape in the Style of Wu Zhen and Calligraphy
Handscroll, ink on paper
Painting: 30.5 x 281 cm. (12 x 110 5/8 in.)
Calligraphy: 30.5 x 240 cm. (12 x 94 1/2 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with a total of three seals of the artist
Calligraphy dated autumn, tenth day, seventh month, yimao year of the Jiajing period (1555)
Colophons by Jiang Xun (1709-1785), Gu Wenbin (1811-1889), He Weipu (1844-1925) and Pei Jingfu (1854-1924), signed, with a total of ten seals
Frontispieces by Pei Jingfu, signed with one seal, and Gong Cheng (1817-1870), signed and dated guihai year (1863)
Eighteen collector’s seals including two of Jin Dejian (1810-1887) and eleven of Pei Jingfu
Titleslips by He Yuanyu (1815-1889), dated yiwei year (1835), Xu Sangeng (1826-1890) and He Kanghou (19th Century), all signed, with a total of four seals
Literature
Jiang Zhaoshen, Wen Zhengming and the Suzhou School, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1978, p.256.
Zhou Daozhen, Chronology of Wen Zhengming, People Fine Art Publishing House, 1985, p.149.
Pei Jingfu, Record on the Zhuang Tao Ge Collection (I), Xueyuan Publishing House, Beijing, 2006, p.335.

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