Lot 311: ATTRIBUTED TO LI GONGLIN (1049-1106) Nine Songs Ink on paper, handscrol

ATTRIBUTED TO LI GONGLIN (1049-1106) Nine Songs Ink on paper, handscroll Signed Li Gonglin. Inscribed by Zhao Yong (1289-after 1360) in the second year of Yanyou era (1315), with one seal of the artist. Colophons by Lü Yisheng, Pei Jingfu (1854-1924) dated in gengxu year (1910), Qin Daoran (1658-1747) dated in renchen year (1712), Wang Shu (1688-1743) dated in bingshen year (1716) and Qian Yue (1743-1815) dated in guihai year (1803), each with one to three seals and a total of nineteen collectors’ seals 32cm x 792.5cm (12½in x 312in).

Published Song Li Longmian Baimiao Jiuge Yuan Zhao Zhongmu Xingkai Tici, Wenming Bookstore Reproduction Album, Shanghai, 1923 Zhuangtaoge Shuhualu Chapter 4, Zhonghua Book Company, Beijing, 1924, pp.259-261 Harada Oyama, Nihon Genzai Shina Meiga Mokuroku, Otsuka Kogeisha, Tokyo, 1938, p.26 Zhou Wu, Zhongguo Huajia Congshu Li Gonglin, Shanghai Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, Shanghai, 1962, pl.1-3 A Ying, A Ying Wenji, Lower Volume, Joint Publishing Co., Hong Kong, 1979, p.564 311 James Cahill, An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings T’ang, Sung and Yüan University of California Press, California, 1980, p.114 Zhou Wu, Li Gonglin, Shanghai Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, Shanghai, 1982, pl.1-2 Hong Wenxiong ed. The Zhuang Tao Ge Collection of Paintings and Calligraphy, Upper Volume, Xue Yuan Publishing House, Beijing, 2006, pp.112, 138-139