Zhang Daqian’s Gongbi Brushwork Landscape Painting Spring Clouds Amidst Autumn Landscape

Zhang Daqian (1899 - 1983)
Spring Clouds Amidst Autumn  Landscape
1984
Ink and colour on paper, framed, 138.5 x 61 com

Spring Clouds Amidst Autumn Landscape, presented at the sale of Fine Chinese Paintings on 4 October, 2016, is a birthday gift from Zhang Daqian to his confidant, Li Qiujun. Zhang and Li’s brother were best friends, and later developed a very close rapport with the rest of his siblings.

During Zhang’s travel to Sichuan’s Mount Qincheng, he painted eight landscapes using the mountainscape as his subject matter. In celebrating Li’s birthday, Zhang travelled to her hometown in Shanghai and gifted her with this Gongbi brushwork landscape painting.

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Bernard Buffet: Infinite Jester

Tour Eiffel

La Mort

Sotheby’s S|2 is pleased to present Bernard Buffet: Infinite Jester, a selling exhibition of oil paintings and works on paper by the renowned French artist Bernard Buffet (1928–1999). Featuring works from every major period of his career, the exhibition focuses on the artist’s series of iconic imagery including clowns, still lives, animals and leisure scenes. On view at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery from 14 – 24 September, Infinite Jester coincides with the opening of several international museum exhibitions as well as the recent release of a biography on the artist.

About Bernard Buffet
A painterly alchemist with an enigmatic mega-celebrity, Bernard Buffet skyrocketed to artistic celebrity when, at eighteen, he showed his first painting at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, followed by his inclusion in the Musée National d’Art Moderne the next year. The public clamored for his resolutely figurative works, and by many he was perceived to be the next great artist to follow in the succession of world-famous Pablo Picasso.

Yet in the decades that followed, Buffet was publicly shunned and ridiculed by influential art world figures, including Picasso, in France, where he was seen to be over-producing his commercial artwork. In the 1990s, he received a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, which eventually rendered him unable to work and the year 1999 saw Buffet create his final series of works – an example of which is included in Sotheby’s exhibition – completed and displayed together before his suicide that year.

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「五十萬卷樓」收藏名家書畫 (二)

張敬修

居廉（1828 – 1904）
《百花圖卷》（局部）
設色絹本，手卷
畫心： 29.3 x 444.8公分

張敬修（1824-1864）於東莞築「可園」以居，居巢、居廉兄弟從遊多年，日夕耽於藝事，復得敬修、嘉謨叔侄厚待，又與當地名士往來為伴，故創作不輟，畫藝日進。「可園」花木遍植，時卉盛開，亟盡園林之勝，二居擅對物寫生，攝自然真貌，寄寓此間，百花圍繞，毋乃創作泉源所在，花卉遂為入畫最盛之素材。

張敬修殁後，居廉自東莞退居番禺，建「十香園」，其室雅緻可人，亦重花木栽種。他遂以眼前之花卉異態，倣南田百花入卷之創作手法，寫成長卷。本幅《百花圖卷》長逾四米，佈局按四季時序之花卉五十餘種，依次雜陳，連綿延貫，各呈自然之態，諸色繽紛斑爛，卻不失溫潤諧協，畫法明顯近得宋光寶，遠溯惲香山，寫生技巧之精到，於此可見。

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「五十萬卷樓」收藏名家書畫 (一)

黃賓虹（1864 – 1955）

《庸言書屋圖》

設色紙本，立軸

118.5 x 52.8公分

近世廣東藏書之富，當首推東莞莫伯驥「五十萬卷樓」。莫伯驥（1878-1958），字天一，少年學醫，畢業後於廣州設「仁壽西藥房」。莫氏一家以田力讀書為彝訓，陳編世守，嬋嫣不絕。其父啟智精研宋學，所藏宋元名臣大儒遺書森森連屋；伯驥少年時因生計，棄儒從商而致富，獨甘飯蔬食，癡迷古書，練積三十四年如一日，終以五十萬卷藏書「上企瞿楊，無慚丁陸」；惜其藏書多散失於抗戰動盪歲月，著作達五十種亦毀於戰火，惟存出版《五十萬卷樓藏書目錄初編》及《五十萬卷樓群書跋文》兩種。

1941年，避難香港的莫伯驥隨兒子定居澳門。彼時，莫伯驥與吳鳴毗鄰。吳鳴與莫家同為醫界人士，兼好收藏，關係尤近。吳氏是黃賓虹藝術的重要賞識者之一，又與其藝術知音兼最主要藝術贊助人黃居素有共事之誼。故莫氏在黃、吳等人影響下欽慕賓虹畫藝而求之自在情理當中。1946年，莫伯驥得畫家寄贈作品三幀，本幅與2015年於香港蘇富比釋出之《五十萬卷樓圖》即為其中兩幅。

莫伯驥不忘先父諄諄教誨，故以其著作額名書室曰「庸言書屋」，正是賓虹此畫緣起。本幅與《五十萬卷樓圖》皆屬1946年黃賓虹取法北宋、以古法作畫上乘之作，筆力沉著，墨采渾厚，朱欄書屋安置於翠巒松岡中，境界幽然自高。

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Fine Chinese Painting - Mo Boji Family Collection #2

Ju Lian

Ju Lian (1828 – 1904)

Blossoms (Detail) 

Ink and colour on silk, handscroll 

Painting: 29.3 x 444.8 cm

Ju Lian and his cousin created many works of art during their travels and became close friends with Zhang Jingxiu. In Zhang’s garden at his home in Dongguan, the brothers sketched the majority of their floral paintings, bringing to life the flowers Zhang carefully tended. After Zhang passed away, Ju Lian and his brother moved to Panyu, where they built a garden of their own with flowers and plants of all types. It was their own garden that inspired Ju Lian to create Blossoms, a four-metre-long handscroll depicting more than 50 types of flowers in bloom, from across the four seasons.

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