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Lot 645: DAI BENXIAO 1621-1693

Est: $150,000 USD - $250,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USMarch 22, 2012

Item Overview

Description

THE CHING YUAN CHAI COLLECTION (LOTS 643-646)
LANDSCAPE
signed Ying'a shan laoqiao Benxiao, dated the first day of the eighth lunar month of the year jiachen (September 20, 1664), inscribed with a poem, and with three seals of the artist, ben xiao, zi wu, po qin, and two seals of the collector Cheng Qi, ke an jian shang, gu xi cheng shi zhen cang.
ink on paper, hanging scroll
121.9 by 29.2 cm. 48 by 11 1/2 in.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Chinese Paintings from the Ching-Yuan Chai: the Cahill Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Chinese Paintings of the Qing Dynasty, April 22 to June 2, 1974
Shadows of Mt. Huang: Chinese Painting and Printing of the Anhui School, Berkeley, University Art Museum, January 21 to March 22, 1981; The Detroit Institute of Arts, July 12 to September 13, 1981;
The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, October 11 to November 22, 1981; Princeton University, The Art Museum, December 12, 1981 to January 23, 1982
The Single Brushstroke: 600 Years of Chinese Painting from the Ching Yuan Chai Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, March 15 to May 26, 1985
Mists and Clouds: Masterworks of Chinese Painting, Berkeley Art Museum, March 2002; University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2002-2003; University of Wisconsin, Elvehjem Museum, 2004; West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, 2004-2005; Williams College Museum of Art, 2005

Literature

Chinese Paintings from the Ching-Yuan Chai: the Cahill Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974, cat. no. 37
Shadows of Mt. Huang. Chinese Painting and Printing of the Anhui School, James Cahill, ed., Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of California, 1981, cat. no. 50 (p. 120 and cf. p. 116)
The Single Brushstroke: 600 Years of Chinese Painting from the Ching Yuan Chai Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1985, cat. no. 66, pp. 87-88
Yiyuan Duoying (Gems From Chinese Fine Arts) Vol. 41, Shanghai, People's Art Press, June 1990, no. 63, pp. 48-49
Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings (Chugoku Kaiga Sogo Zuroku), Kei Suzuki, comp. American and Canadian Collections, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1982, A31-158, p. I-366.
Chinese Art in Western Collections (Chugoku bijutsu). Tokyo: Kodansha Ltd., 1973, vol. 2, pl. 56 (cf. pp. 239-240)

Provenance

Previously in the collection of the renowned 20th century collector Cheng Qi

Auction Details

Fine Classical Chinese Paintings

by
Sotheby's
March 22, 2012, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US