Lot 209: 1666, WANGSHIMIN, QING LANDSCAPE PAINTING

Wang Shimin (王時敏; 1592-1680) Chinese Qing Dynasty traditional landscape painting, grisaille ink on paper laid to silk. Signed and dated, In Autumn of the Ninth months of Bingwu years (ca. 1666) Celestial Mountains of gargantuan size expand toward the clear sky above. Misty wisps of cloud construct a tiered composition of the mountain while a large body of water fills up the foreground. Traditional Chinese architecture can be found painted on the mountains ridgeline. Several lifelike trees grapple with rock and lift their limbs in exultation of the great mountains before them. Semi-cursive script calligraphy was written in the blank upper left corner followed by several red seals.

Scroll Width: 23 1/2" Length: 45 1/8" Painting Length: 39 1/4" Width: 19 7/8"

Ink on paper

Qing Dynasty

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Wang Shimin (王時敏; 1592-1680) was a Chinese landscape painter during the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Born in the Jiangsu province, Wang grew up in an artistic, scholarly environment. His grandfather was a prime minister in the late Ming dynasty, and his father was a Hanlin Academy editor for the court, who had studied with Tung Ch i ch ang. After learning painting and calligraphy at a young age, Wang worked as a government official. However he fell ill due to exhaustion on a trip to Nanking in 1630. Wang returned to his homeland and immersed himself in art, creating numerous works. Wang s works place him in an elevated group known as the Four Wangs, also part of the Six Masters of the early Qing period. Wang painted After Wang Wei s Snow Over Rivers and Mountains, which can be viewed at the National Palace Museum, Taipei. Wang was the grandfather and tutor of Wang Yuanqi (王原祁; 1642 1715), who was also a notable landscape painter and a member of the Six Masters of the early Qing period.

From the heirloom collections of DR. Wu Guozhen (吳國楨; October 21, 1903-June 6, 1984) was a Chinese political figure and historian, government official who served as mayor of Hankow (1932-1938), mayor of Chung-king (1939-1941), political vice minister of foreign affairs (1943-1945), mayor of Shanghai (1946-1948), and governor of Taiwan (1950-1952) and the former Chairman of Taiwan Provincial Government. He resigned in 1953 and went to the United States. K.C. Wu lived in the United States where he served as professor of Chinese history at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. During his time in the United States, he wrote various works, including a detailed analysis on Chinese culture in the context of mythology and early history in his book The Chinese Heritage. The second part collections of DR. Wu Guozhen (吳國楨) presented and offered up to auctions: ON DAY-1: From Lot-97 through Lot-124, and continued from Lot-204 through Lot-228. ON DAY-2: from Lot-357 through Lot-386.

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