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Lot 246

Qi Baishi (1862-1957)
Narcissus, Rock and Quail

21 September 2020, 12:00 EDT
New York

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Qi Baishi (1862-1957)

Narcissus, Rock and Quail
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, inscribed by the artist with a poetic inscription and signed Qi Huang with one artist's seal reading Muren.
61 1/4 x 16 3/4in (155.5 x 42.5cm)

Footnotes

齊白石 水仙石鵪 設色紙本 立軸

Provenance
Far East Fine Arts, San Francisco, California

Published
Jung Ying Tsao, The Paintings of Xugu and Qi Baishi, 1993, no 5, pp. 266-269.

來源
加州舊金山遠東藝術畫廊

出版
曹仲英,The Paintings of Xugu and Qi Baishi,1993年,圖錄編號5,266-269頁

The subject of narcissus is relatively rare in the oeuvre of Qi Baishi. Of the few instances of the artist rendering this springtime flower, most date from the 1920s and 1930s, a likely dating for the present work as well. Translated in the 1993 publication, the poem reads:

Cold snow, chilly wind, cracked ice:
This is the season when the narcissus blooms.
With whom will the flowers speak of friendship,
Under the trees, the bright moon and delicate plum blossoms?

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