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WEN BOREN (1502-1575)
Fantastic Scenery in the Human Realm
Handscroll, ink and color on paper, 8½ x 250½in. (21.5 x 63.5cm.)
Entitled in seal script calligraphy (zhuan shu) at the front of the painting "Ren Jian Yi Jing" (Fantastic Scenery in the Human Realm"
Inscribed: "The right-hand side of this scroll was painted beginning in the third month of gengwu year (1570) and it was completed in the ninth month of xinwei year (1571), totaling seven pieces of paper and twenty-three feet excluding the colophon at the end."
Signed: Wufeng Shanren Wen Boren
Six seals of the artist: including De Cheng, Bin Xiang Shi, Hua Yuan, Bo Ren
One colophon by the artist, signed: Wufeng Shanren Wen Boren, "written at the age of seventy", dated the fifth year of the Longqing era (1571)
Three additional colophons by Cheng Zhengkui (1604-1676), one dated bingxu year (1646), and another dated dinghai year (1707)
Two collectors' seals: Ping Yuan Lu Shi, An Ding
Fantastic Scenery in the Human Realm
Handscroll, ink and color on paper, 8½ x 250½in. (21.5 x 63.5cm.)
Entitled in seal script calligraphy (zhuan shu) at the front of the painting "Ren Jian Yi Jing" (Fantastic Scenery in the Human Realm"
Inscribed: "The right-hand side of this scroll was painted beginning in the third month of gengwu year (1570) and it was completed in the ninth month of xinwei year (1571), totaling seven pieces of paper and twenty-three feet excluding the colophon at the end."
Signed: Wufeng Shanren Wen Boren
Six seals of the artist: including De Cheng, Bin Xiang Shi, Hua Yuan, Bo Ren
One colophon by the artist, signed: Wufeng Shanren Wen Boren, "written at the age of seventy", dated the fifth year of the Longqing era (1571)
Three additional colophons by Cheng Zhengkui (1604-1676), one dated bingxu year (1646), and another dated dinghai year (1707)
Two collectors' seals: Ping Yuan Lu Shi, An Ding