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Lot 5125
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MASTER OF THE WATER, PINE AND STONE RETREAT | A Farewell Song of White Clouds

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15,000 - 20,000 HKD
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Description

  • Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat
  • A Farewell Song of White Clouds
  • With two seals of the artist: Shuisongshi shanfang ("The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat") and Ouran dezhi ("Achieved by accident")
  • ink on cotton paper, handscroll
  • overall: 9.3 by 529 cm.   3.5 by 208.3 in.  
  • Executed in 2011.

Provenance

New York, Mee-Seen Loong Fine Art
Private Asian Collection

Exhibited

New York, Mee-Seen Loong Fine Art LLC, The Scholar’s Studio Ink, Paintings and Works of Art, 2012

Literature

Beyond the Stage of Time: The Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat, Rasti Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 2020, vol. I: Realised Realms, cat. no. AK11.9.

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Very faint yellowing/foxing is noted.
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Catalogue Note

Inscription:
A Farewell Song of White Clouds

With one seal of the artist reading Shuisongshi shanfang ('The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat')

Title Panel: 
A Farewell Song of White Clouds

Inscribed at the Water Pine & Stone Retreat, Mo Shiwei, April '11. With two seals of the artist: Shuisongshi shanfang ('The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat'), and Shiwei

Colophon:
   Accompanying you into the Chu Mountains
   And across the waters of the Xiang
   Yonder across the waters of the Xiang
   There is a cloak of ivy to wear,
   And you may lie in a bed of white clouds.

   Go swiftly home, O my friend.

Li Bai's 'A Farewell Song of White Clouds' a miniature version for the traveller, at the Terrace at the Edge of the Universe, April 2011

With two seals of the artist: Renmomo momoren ('Man grinds the ink; ink grinds the man'), and Xiezhang laoren ('The old man who carries the staff').