Waterfall at Jingpo Lake

FU BAOSHI (1904-1965) Waterfall at Jingpo Lake Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper 82.2 x 106.5 cm. (32 3/8 x 41 7/8 in.) Entitled, inscribed, and signed, with one seal and one dated seal of jiachen year (1964) Dated 1964 PROVENANCE Lot 12, 17 February 1984, Fine Modern Chinese Paintings and Traditional Scholars’ Articles, Sotheby’s Hong Kong. EXHIBITED Austrian Museum of Art, Malerie aus China, 19th June - 18 July 1976, Catalogue no. 82 NOTE Fu Baoshi created Waterfall at Jingpo Lake after he travelled with other artists such as Wu Zuoren and Guan Shanyue to northeastern China (Fig.1). Viewing the natural scenery of the region for the first time, he created over a hundred sketches.