Lot 1083: ZHU WAN (1559-1617)

CLERICAL SCRIPT CALLIGRAPHY AFTER THE XIACHENG STELE

Handscroll, ink on paper
30 x 297 cm (11 3/4 x 117 in.)
Inscribed at the end of the scroll and signed by the artist: Nanhai Zhu Wan
Two seals of the artist: Zhu Wan Zhi Yin, Bai Yue Shan Ren
Dated seventh month, twenty-ninth year of the Wanli era (1601)
One collector's seal

Note:
Zhu Wan, sobriquets Jimei and Baiyue Shanren, was a native of Guangzhou. He was known as a literary man, a poet, and an adept calligrapher, particularly of seal and clerical scripts. For brief biography of the artist, see Zhongguo Meishujia Renming Cidian, Shanghai Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 1981, p.202

(US$3,900-5,200)