Chen Hongshou

CHEN HONGSHOU (1598-1652) Prunus and Rock Fan leaf, mounted and framed, ink on gold paper 17.2 x 53 cm. (6 3/4 x 20 7/8 in.) Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist Dedicated to Baili One collector's seal on the mounting 1 PREVIOUSLY IN THE COLLECTION OF KEIKOKU GEJO Originally named Masao, Keikoku Gejo (1842-1920) was a painter of the Japanese Kano school. In 1879 he founded the Ryuchikai, precursor of the present Japan Art Association. In 1883 he held art exhibitions in Paris. A celebrated painter during the Meiji era, Gejo was principal of the navy accounting school from 1892 to 1893 and became Member of the House of Peers in 1897. He was highly respected as a great collector of Chinese and Japanese classical paintings and calligraphy. Part of his collection had been published in important art books and some pieces were registered national treasure.

Lot Description CHEN HONGSHOU (1598-1652) Fishing by River Wei Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist Inside titleslip by Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), signed with two seals Outside titleslip by Li Yanshan (1898-1961), signed with two seals Two collector's seals of Li Qiaofeng Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk 125 x 54.5 cm. (49 1/4 x 21 1/2 in.) Provenance PROPERTY OF LI QIAOFENG - CHINESE PAINTINGS FROM THE MO GUI TANG COLLECTION View Lot Notes › The owner of the Mo Gui Tang collection Li Qiaofeng was born in 1921 in Guangdong. With a passionate love for Chinese paintings and calligraphy, Li studied under the tutelage of many artists, particularly, Zhang Daqian. During Zhang Daqian's visits to Hong Kong, Li would play host to him and spend time together discussing the arts.

CHEN HONGSHOU (1598-1652) Poem in Cursive Script Calligraphy Handscroll, ink on paper 32.5 x 367 cm. (12 3/4 x 144 1/2 in.) Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist Dated summer, bingzi year (1636) Two collector's seals of Bai Enyou (19th century) Lot Notes US$51,600-64,500

CHEN HONGSHOU (1598-1652) Lady with Attendants Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk 109 x 44.5 cm. (42 7/8 x 17 1/2 in.) Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist Two collector's seals of Ma Jizuo (born 1902) 明 陳洪綬 仕女 設色絹本 立軸 題識： 楓橋法盟，弟悔遲洪綬為門人嚴湛上 松翁顧老居士壽。 鈐印：陳洪綬印 藏印： 馬積祚 (1902年生)：馬氏書畫、馬積祚印 出版：《古畫大觀》第一集，上海國華書局， 1916年。 《學箕室名人書畫集》，西泠印社書店， 1934年7月，圖版5。 來源： 編號1300及1301原藏者 Aschwin de Lippe (1914- 1988) 王子乃是原德國 Jena 的皇室成員。王子 尤愛印度中世紀雕塑與中國古代繪畫。在二次大戰中，他曾在德軍服役，戰後曾在柏林的博物館與大學做研究工作。1949年他開始在紐約大都會博物館任高級研究員，於1950年升至副館長。1965年成為研究館長，直到1973年退休後任名譽館長。在他的學術與收藏生涯中，Aschwin 王子發表關於印度與中國藝術的文章 與著作繁多，貢獻斐淺。 Lots 1300 and 1301 were once owned by Dr. Prince Aschwin de Lippe-Biesterfeld, PhD (1914-1988), Germany. Dr. de Lippe, brother of the late Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, was curator in the Far Eastern Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1949 until 1973. His specialty was Chinese Classical Paintings, and in the second part of his career there he also became an expert in Indian Medieval art and architecture. Aschwin de Lippe wrote his doctoral thesis on the subject of Li Kan and his work on the Bamboo and received his PhD in November 1942 from the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin. Thereafter he worked in the Chinese Paintings Department at the Museum of Ostasiatische Kunst in Berlin, during the period he became renowned for his collection of Chinese Paintings. A few years after the city was destroyed by bombing and the museum very damaged, he moved to New York in 1949 where he worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1950 he became Associate Curator, in 1965 Research Curator and in 1973 he was named Curator Emeritus. It is interesting to note that his fascination for Chinese culture was due to the fact that, as a young boy, he had a house-tutor whose previous employment was as German Tutor to Emperor Pu Yi in Beijing. This rather extraordinary experience that the tutor had lived, fascinated so much the young mind of Aschwin de Lippe, that he decided as a teenager to study Mandarin which eventually he wrote and spoke fluently; he was the youngest student in Germany to graduate in Mandarin. Literature An Overview of Classical Paintings, Volumn I, Guo Hua Book Store, Shanghai, 1916 Chinese Paintings from the Collection of Xue Ji Studio, Shiling Press Ltd., July 1934, pl. 5

CHEN HONGSHOU (1598-1652) Master Yuchuan and His Attendants Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk 167.5 x 64.7 cm. (66 x 25 1/2 in.) Inscribed with a poem and signed by the artist Two seals of the artist Three collectors' seals A colophon and a seal on the mounting brocade by Ding Jing (1695-1765), dated thirteeth year of the Qianlong era (1748)