Ancient Temples Amidst Clouds
$500
ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
Ancient Temples Amidst Clouds
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on gold paper
172 x 89.5 cm. (67 ¾ x 35 ¼ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist and one dated seal of 1965
Dated autumn, yisi year (1965)
PROVENANCE:
The Low Gallery
Lot 24, 31 May 2011, The Mei Yun Tang Collection of Paintings by Chang Dai-Chien, Sotheby’s Hong Kong
Mei Yun Tang Collection
EXHIBITED:
Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Art Gallery, The Mei Yun Tang Collection of Paintings by Chang Dai-chien, 17 April-23 May 1993.
Japan, Tokyo, Shoto Museum of Art, The Mei Yun Tang Collection of Paintings by Chang Dai-chien, 5 April-21 May 1995.
Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, The Mei Yun Tang Collection of Paintings by Chang Dai-chien, 28 February-27 April 1997.
LITERATURE:
Kao Mayching ed., The Mei Yun Tang Collection of Paintings by Chang Dai-chien, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 1993, pl.119.
Kao Mayching, “The Paintings of Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-Chien): Unity of Tradition and
Modernity”, Arts of Asia, May-June 1994, pl.18.
The Mei Yun Tang Collection of Paintings by Chang Dai-chien, Shoto Museum of Art, Japan, 1995, pl.117.