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Huang Binhong (1865-1955)
Couplet in Large Seal Script, 1943

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Huang Binhong (1865-1955)

Couplet in Large Seal Script, 1943
A pair of hanging scrolls, ink on paper, with the artist's transcription in running/regular script, dated guiwei and signed Huang Binhong, with four artist's seals reading Huang Binhong, Jiazi sheng, guiwei nian bashi and Bing shang Hongfeiguan.
48 x 7 7/8in (122 x 20cm), each scroll (2).

Footnotes

黃賓虹 篆書七言聯 水墨紙本 立軸 一九四三年作

Provenance/來源:
China Guardian Beijing, 7 November 1994, lot 270
中國嘉德,北京,1994年11月7日,拍品編號270

Published/出版:
Little, Stephen, and J. May Lee Barrett. New Songs on Ancient Tunes: 19th-20th Century Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Richard Fabian Collection, Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2007, pp. 560-561
Little, Stephen, J. May Lee Barrett,《古調新歌:費立哲神父珍藏十九及二十世紀中國書畫》,檀香山藝術博物館,夏威夷,2007年,頁560-561

Exhibited/展覽:
New Songs on Ancient Tunes, Honolulu Art Academy, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 30-October 28, 2007
《古調新歌:費立哲神父珍藏十九及二十世紀中國書畫》,檀香山藝術博物館,夏威夷,2007年8月30日至10月28日


Most well-known for his long and innovative career as a painter of landscapes and flowers, Huang Binhong was also a prominent expert in early calligraphic scripts and the evolution of the written language. This poetic couplet employs the large seal script found on bronze objects dating from the Zhou dynasties (1100-256BCE), prior to the linguistic reforms made during the reign of the first emperor of the Qin dynasty. The lines and thickness of each brushstroke are even and uniform, with the text repeated on the margin of the right scroll.

眾所周知黃賓虹擅山水、花卉,然其在書法,尤其是早期書體和文字演變,亦造詣精深。本幅大篆對聯,取法周代鐘鼎銘文,筆法流暢蕭散,清剛自然。

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