Private collection in Singapore
Huang Yu and Zhao Bingchong, "Twenty-four Poems of Sikong Tu"
Forty-eight folios on colored paper, 16.6 x 6.6 cm each
Estimate: HK$5,000,000 - HK$8,000,000
The Manchu Emperors actively studied Han culture, especially Kangxi and Qianlong, who attached great importance to the poetic tradition, so that court art creation was also deeply influenced. This volume is a work completed in this context. This volume is open in twenty-four volumes, each book and a painting, on the left is a passage of Zhao Bingchong's poems copied in small letters, and on the right is a landscape sketch drawn by Huang Yu according to the meaning of the text. The calligraphy in the whole volume is dignified and handsome, and the paintings are elegant and elegant, which is quite interesting to the literati. This work is included in the "Three Editions of Shiqu Baodi" and Fu Kaisen's "Bibliography of Past Dynasties".
Zhao Bingchong is fond of ancients, gong seal, can copy, especially good at jinshi calligraphy and painting, good at Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum. Huang Yushan painting, Gongshan landscape flowers and birds, You Chang painting plum. The Jiaqing Emperor was very appreciative of his works, and in his later years he served as the chief reader of the "Three Editions of Shiqu Baodi". According to the style of "Twenty-Four Poems", Huang Yu summarized the literati painting concept as "Twenty-Four Paintings", which is an important painting theory work of the Qing Dynasty.
The "Twenty-Four Poems" is written by sikong tu of the late Tang Dynasty, based on Lao Zhuang's thought, combined with the aesthetic concept of Wei and Jin metaphysics, and classifies the style and realm of poetry creation, and each poem is a unique and different poetic realm. The "Twenty-Four Poems" has had a profound influence on the development of literature in later generations, and has been recorded in various series of books throughout the ages.