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A private collection of fine Chinese paintings
一亚洲私人收藏的中國書畫

Assembled primarily during the 1960s from artists and dealers across Hong Kong and London, this collection had remained in Singapore, without much exposure at all, for nearly 50 years till the passing of its owner earlier this year.

該收藏多於上世紀六十年代購於香港及倫敦的畫家、畫廊,塵封留守新加坡近半世紀。
Lot 21

Wu Guandai (1862 - 1929)
Spring Meditation, circa 1925

25 October 2017, 18:30 AEDT
Sydney

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Wu Guandai (1862 - 1929)

Spring Meditation, circa 1925
ink and colour on silk, hanging scroll
signed and inscribed, with three seals of the artist
painted when the artist was 63 years old, circa 1925
title slip inscribed
33.8 x 88.5 cm

Footnotes

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Singapore and Sydney

吳觀岱 畫船載得春歸去(約1925年作) 設色絹本立軸

款識:
畫船載得春歸去 餘情付 湖水湖煙 高人念節自堅持 山遠林疏便見之 三百年來名不滅 畫中特是捲簾詩 觚廬吳觀岱時年六十有三
古人所謂文人畫即士大夫畫 只要有書卷氣 無論工緻與寫意皆不落俗 至理法之差與否 前人不甚計也 文人畫之次為作家畫 理法兼備但少逸氣 再次則為近畫 不足道矣 觀道人又記

鈐印:吳 觀岱 觀岱大利

傳承:
新加坡與悉尼私人收藏

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