INDIAN DRUMMER

Details

SHI LU (1919-1982)
INDIAN DRUMMER
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
Entitled, inscribed, and signed by the artist, with one seal
Inscribed again and signed by the artist, with one seal
One collector's seal of Robert H. Ellsworth
Titleslip and seal of Robert H. Ellsworth on scroll
27 1/4 x 20 3/4 in. (69.2 x 52.7 cm.)

Literature

Christie’s,The Beauty of Art: Paintings and Calligraphy by Shi Lu from the Private Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, New York, 2011, p. 88.

Exhibited

Christie’s New York, The Beauty of Art: Paintings and Calligraphy by Shi Lu from the Private Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, 15-31 March 2011.

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Lot Essay

As part of a government cultural travel program for Chinese artists, Shi Lu visited India and Egypt in 1955-56. He painted many paintings during his trip, including this one. However, in the 1970s, Shi Lu added to these pictures symbols and characters, the frenzy and strangeness of which reveal his mental state at the time.

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