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Lot 136

Meng Litang (19th century)
Flowers

31 May 2015, 13:30 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

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Meng Litang (19th century)

Flowers
Ink and colour on paper, a set of four hanging scrolls
Each inscribed and signed, each with two seals of the artist, two with one seal of the collector
121.5cm x 30.5cm (47¾in x 12in) each. (4).

Footnotes

Provenance: Christie's Hong Kong, 29 November 2011, lot 1982

孟麗堂 花卉四屏 設色紙本 立軸四幅

(一)
款識:風牡丹圖。小變道復法。陽湖麗堂作。
鈐印:孟覲乙、鐵薰
藏印:樵山心賞

(二)
款識:覲乙。
鈐印:孟覲乙(二次)

(三)
款識:蘇詩送劉景文荷盡已無首。仿新羅山人筆,陽湖雲溪生。
鈐印:孟覲乙、雲溪生

(四)
款識:朝正圖。稿本擬文肅筆。覲乙。
鈐印:孟覲乙、鐵薰
藏印:樵山心賞

來源:香港佳士得,2011年11月29日,編號1982

註:孟麗堂,名覲乙,字麗堂,號雲溪外史,陽湖(今江蘇常州)人。道光期間,孟氏與宋光寶(藕塘)定居於粵,成為當地著名花鳥畫家。居廉初學畫於居巢,二人同師事宋光寶與孟麗堂,宋、孟的畫風又深得惲南田畫的神韻,因此,嶺南畫派可說是惲南田、宋光寶、孟麗堂、居巢、居廉、高劍父、高奇峰、陳樹人一脈相承。此外,齊白石對孟麗堂獨有偏好,嘗曰:「作畫最難無畫家習氣,即工匠氣也。前清最工山水畫者,餘未傾服,餘所喜獨朱雪個、大滌子、金冬心、李復堂、孟麗堂而已。」 可見孟氏在齊白石心目中地位之高。

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