Lot n° 240
Estimation :
3000 - 4000
EUR
Three landscape paintings in the sansui (山水) style, attribut - Lot 240
Three landscape paintings in the sansui (山水) style, attributed to Zhao Zuo - 趙左, ca. 1570-1633
Ink on paper depicting landscapes of mountains surrounded by pine and other trees as well as bodies of water dotted with small dwellings. Each painting is accompanied by a poem and commentary and is signed with a Zuo - 左 seal. - The first painting is illustrated with an excerpt from a poem by Du Fu (712-770), "Two Poems Passing Through the Estate of the Late Clerk Husi" - 過故斛斯校書莊二首 - Guo Gu Hu Si Jiao Shu Zhuang Er Shou. It can read as follows: "No plank is restored on the broken bridge, a willow tree, lying flat, still grows branches"-斷橋無覆板，楊柳自生枝。- Duan qiao wu fu ban, yang liu zi sheng zhi. Follows the commentary, "done in the style of Dong Qi's brush"-仿董其筆意- Fang Dong Qi bi yi. Dong Qi is probably an abbreviation of the name of the painter Dong Qichang* - 董其昌 (1555-1636). - The second painting is illustrated with an excerpt from a poem by Tang Yin (1470-1524), "Eight of the Twenty-Four Paintings" - 题画廿四首其八 - Ti hua nian si shou qi ba. It can be read as: "The shade of the green trees is painted peacefully and the gibbons shout, / Next to the San xia bridge, the paths cross, / The pretty sound of the spring, guides us the way back, / The sound of the spring sobs, the path sometimes high, sometimes low." - 綠陰清畫白猿啼，三峽橋邊路欲迷。 賴得泉聲引歸路，泉聲鳴咽路高低。"Lu yin qing hua bai yuan ti, / San xia qiao bian lu yu mi. / Lai de quan sheng yin gui lu, / Quan sheng wu ye lu gao di. The commentary follows, "done in the style of Dong Beiyuan* - 仿董北苑意 - Fang dong bei yuan yi. - The third painting is accompanied by an excerpt from a poem by Du Fu (712-770): "At a party hosted by Wang of Langzhou, I respectfully reply to Eleventh composition of my maternal uncle on regret of separation" - 王閬州筵奉酬十一舅惜別之作 - Wang Lang zhou yan feng chou shi yi jiu xi bie zhi zuo. It can be read as follows: "Ten thousand ravines are filled with the sound of trees, / On a thousand cliffs the autumn air is bracing" - 萬壑樹聲滿，千崖秋氣高。- Wan he shu sheng man, / Qian ya qiu qi gao. Follows commentary: 'done in the style of Jing Hao*' - 仿荊浩意 - Fang Jing Hao yi.
Dim. sheet : 23 x 34 cm
*Dong Qichang, brush name Xuanzai, is a contemporary Ming-era painter and friend of Zhao Zuo.
*Dong Yuan (or Tong Yuan or Tung Yüan, nickname: Shuda, brush name: Beiyuan), born around 934 in Zhongling (now Nanjing), died in 962, was a Chinese painter active in the Southern Tang dynasty (937-975). He is considered the father of the Southern School of Chinese painting.
*Jing Hao (ching Hao or King Hao, nickname: Haoran, brush name: Hongguzi) is an artist active in the late 9th century and the first half of the 10th century. His influence on the development of landscape painting seems to have been major.
赵左款水墨纸本山水画三幅
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