On the evening of June 5th, at the special session of "Great Beauty - Ancient Calligraphy and Painting Treasures Night" of Huayi International (Beijing) Spring Auction, Yu Province's "Fish Algae Map" and Wen Boren's "All The Mountains Are Ringing" recorded by Shiqu Baodi were successfully auctioned, and the transaction price was 29.325 million yuan and 33.12 million yuan respectively. According to the Nandu reporter's understanding, in this year's spring auction, the internationally renowned auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's have successively auctioned several famous paintings written by Shiqu Baodi, such as two group paintings created by the court painter in the early years of Qianlong with the theme of an idyllic poem by Fan Chengda of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Zhang Zongcang's "Wuguan New Autumn", which unfortunately all went through the auction.
"Fish Algae Map" makes Yu Province one of the "10 Million Yuan Painters Club"
Yu Province Fish Algae Diagram Colored Paper Hand-rolled 28.5×157 .8cm
"Fish algae" has a long history as a painting title and pattern, and has been loved by people for generations. "Fish" is homophonous with "Yu", with the meaning of "every year there is more than enough". On the basis of painting, "fish algae" gradually developed into an important decorative pattern, which became a popular pattern of porcelain of various dynasties of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, especially the official kilns.
Yu Province is one of the "Top Ten Painters of the Qing Palace", and the "Fish Algae Diagram" photographed this time is a Xuande notebook, colored, and painted nine kinds of swimming fish in the algae, mixed with shrimp mussels and toads. Yu Province has mastered the essentials of painting fish, drawing a group of fish swimming, chasing, foraging in the clear water, each doing its best, vivid. The water and grass swayed with the waves, the fallen Ying fell, the duckweed was dotted, and the vigorous business appeared on the paper. The whole painting is purely painted in a boneless way, without the brush of outlining, and there are various types of swimming fish, interspersed with a shrimp or frog, dotted in between, more interesting. The fishtail is painted lightly and gracefully, and it is full of momentum, which is overwhelming. The whole picture of the water, without a stroke, but with the algae with the waves, the fish chasing, turning the algae to the pu, the spring water melting.
Yu Province "Fish Algae Map" part
This "Fish Algae Map" made by Feng Shu of Yu Province was written in the "Continuation of Shiqu Baodi" compiled by the Qianlong Dynasty. "Shiqu Baodi" records a total of 37 works by Yu Province, most of which have Qianlong inscriptions. The works of Yu Province, which were written in "Shiqu Baodi", are like the morning star in the market, and the work of "Fish Algae" is the only one. So far, although the "Fish Algae Map" has been circulated for nearly three hundred years, the interior of the scroll is still basically preserved in the old appearance of the Qing Palace, and the picture is still radiant. In the autumn auction of Huayi International in Beijing in 2020, the transaction price of "Songtao Tu" in Yu Province was 667,000 yuan. The pre-auction valuation of "Fish Algae Map" was 22-28 million yuan, the final transaction price was 25.5 million yuan, plus commission of 29.325 million yuan, which was more than 40 times that of "Songtao Tu", which greatly refreshed the personal auction record of Yu Province, and made him a member of the "10 million yuan painters club" in one fell swoop.
Yu Province's "Fish Algae Map" is on the inside page of the "Secret Temple Zhulin Shiqu Baodi Compilation (VII)"
"All the Mountains Are Ringing" broke Wen Boren's personal auction record
Wen Boren All the Mountains Ring Hand Scroll Color Sprinkled Gold Letter 1548 29× 373cm
Wen Boren's "All the Mountains Are Ringing", also written in Shiqu Baodi, was estimated at 22-27 million yuan before the auction, with a transaction price of 28.8 million yuan and a commission of 33.12 million yuan, breaking Wen Boren's most expensive personal record in 2015.
The Wumen School of painting is an important painting school in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, giving birth to Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Wen Jia, Qian Yu, Zhou Tianqiu, Lu Zhi, Lu Shidao and many others, and his nephew Wen Boren, whose Chinese Zhengming, is also an extremely outstanding landscape painter.
"All the Mountains Ring" part
The length of the whole volume is nearly four meters, the painting method is changeable, and the shape is unique, which can be described as unique in Wumen. The brush strokes of the whole volume are just soft in the middle, the artistic conception is quiet and relaxed, and the pen is simple and long. The volume is written: "Longqing Pengshen Autumn Day, Wufeng Wen Boren wrote." ”
Wen Boren's "All the Mountains Sound" is on the inside page of the "Secret Temple Zhulin Shiqu Baodi Co-editor (10)"
"All the Mountains Are Ringing" is the old collection of Luo Jialun, the former president of Tsinghua University. Luo Jialun is not only a famous educator in the Republic of China, but also a good exhibition hall, who has exchanged many exchanges and appreciations with Wang Shijie and Jiang Gusun, and has a wealth of Ming and Qing paintings and calligraphy, which was later donated to the National Palace museum in Taipei, which is a pearl left in the sea. Previously, Wen Boren's most expensive personal record was the "First Snow Reading Chart" auctioned by Zhongmao Shengjia in Beijing in 2015, with a transaction price of 8.05 million yuan.
Nandu reporter Zhou Peiwen intern Wei Xuying