Lot n° 267
Estimation :
40000 - 50000
EUR
FU BAOSHI (1904-1965)
Personage in a mountainous and leafy landscape
Fan-shaped ink drawing
Signed, located and dated: "Fu Baoshi, made in December 1960 in Nanjing
Red stamp
Dim.: 25 x 51.5 cm (on view)
Fu Baoshi was born in 1904, so he was 8 years old when the imperial system ended and the Republic of China emerged.
Largely self-taught, his early pictorial research was dominated by historical concerns.
His first publications were devoted to the history of Chinese painting and earned him the support of Xu Beihong, which enabled him to go to
Japan to study at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts.
An accomplished figure painter, his landscape works were inspired by traditional painting through an infinite play of references while renewing the genre thanks to a particular brush technique, the use of dots and a new inking. He thus created an elegant style, integrating a poetic atmosphere, which is personal to him.
With the Sino-Japanese war, he settled at the foot of the Chongqing mountains, creating landscapes of exceptional beauty in which appear small characters as if lost in the immensity of nature.
If Xu Beihong appreciated his "free and unconventional" paintings, his great passion for Art, his compositions and his unique Art make him one of the greatest Chinese masters of his time.
Leader of the new Chinese painting movement, he is widely recognized by his peers and will be Vice-President of the Confederation of Chinese Artists, Director of the Jiangsu School of Painting and will teach at the Art Department of the Central Unit.
The work we present for sale testifies to the artist's talent for landscape but also to his admiration for the painter Shitao (1641-1720), painting and calligraphy being intimately linked.
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