Beijing Poly Auction Chinese Calligraphy and Painting - Fine Collection
Lot1932
Xu Beihong 1895-1953 Cattle Herding Diagram
1930 85×52 cm on paper
Spring 2014 Lot 1932
Realized price: RMB 6,900,000
Note: Ms. Ji Yi, the person in the above paragraph, is Deng JiYi, the mother of Mr. Wu Jinglian, an economic titan, and Mingde is Mr. Chen Mingde, the stepfather of Mr. Wu Jinglian.
Lot2899
Xu Beihong 1895-1953 Lord of Buyeo
1930 On paper 81.6 ×50 cm
Spring 2019 Lot 2899
Realized price: RMB 22,425,000
Exhibition: Ancient and Modern: Selected Modern and Contemporary Masters, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, December 5, 2009 - January 27, 2010.
Publication: "Ancient And Present Inheritance - A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Masters", Plate 50, Taiwan Xizhitang Culture Publishing Business Co., Ltd., 2009.
Similar to the use of two expressive languages to depict the same subject matter, in addition to "Buyeo Lord", at present, only "Yugong Moving Mountain" can be seen. "Yugong Moving Mountains" was created in the 1940s during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and "Lord buyeo" was in the 1930s. The Chinese painting "Buyeo Guo lord" was painted in 1930, and according to the title of the picture, "Gengwu Nian Ren Re-write the Buyeo Guo Lord", it can be seen that this painting is Xu Beihong's second painting of this subject. According to the "Long Compilation of Xu Beihong's Chronicle", in 1930, the "Semi-monthly Journal of National Central University" published "Three Heroes of Wind and Dust". In addition, Xu Beihong once painted an oil painting "Three Heroes of Wind and Dust" with "The Biography of the Bearded Man", which set a record for the highest auction of Xu Beihong's paintings at that time for HK$6.645 million at the 2001 Hong Kong auction, "The Lord of the Buyeo Country" was the vertical banner, "The Three Heroes of the Wind and Dust" was the banner, the position relationship between the three characters in the two paintings was not the same, the Chinese painting from left to right was the Red Breeze Girl, Li Jing, and the Bearded Guest, and the oil painting from left to right was Li Jing, the Red Breeze Girl, and the Bearded Guest. All three figures are riding donkeys (horses), one brown-black and the other two white-gray. The red-haired woman is dressed in a red robe and a green turban. Li Jing wears a blue costume and a small hat, and the bearded guests wear yellow robes and capes from head to toe. The original text of the Biography of the Bearded Guest is "in the middle shape, bare-haired like a donkey, and comes on a donkey"; the red-haired woman is "a prostitute with a special color, holding a red whisk," "A man in purple clothes wears a hat, and the staff is revealed." "Undress and hats, eighteen or nineteen beautiful people also." "Look at its skin appearance, its temperament, and the true nature of the people." Compared with the original description, Xu Beihong artistically depicted the image temperament and clothing and decoration of the three characters in the painting, and from the existing sketch of "Three Heroes of wind and dust" and compared it with the red breeze woman in the painting, it can be seen that the characters are sketched by the painter from the real model.