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Ji School Artists 1990 - about 2005

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« on: October 30, 2015, 11:34:14 am »

Hi  SteveC

Thanks for these  amazing threads !

When  I first   started  visiting Hengshui  I  took  some  Chinese  landscape  art  books (which I bought  from Rong Bao Zhai  in Liu Li Chang)   with  me  to  give to the   artists  for  inspiration

I  did not  realize  it  at the  the  time,  but  the  Hengshui  artists  were  light years  ahead of me  and  had  whole  book cases  of  such  traditional and  modern  Chinese  art books  on their  shelves

One  particular  Ji School  master,  Da  Yong  (real name  Zhang Yong)  had  literally  wall- to-wall  piles  of  books  in his  home  :  I am  talking  THOUSANDS  , maybe  even TENS of THOUSANDS  of  art  books  piled   around  his   5,000  sq  foot  apartment

Zhang  Daqian ....  now  there's a thing  .....  ! 

See the  attachment  re  one  of the  last bottles  I ever  bought in Hengshui .

So sad  that  I'm  (now)  not  sure   it  was  actually  painted  by  Da  Yong  himself , even though  he  sold  it  to me personally "as  if" one of his  own  works  .

I   (now)  think it  was  another  case  of a  senior  artist   signing  off  on one  of  his  student's  works,  of  which  I  have  many  hot   smoking   guns  in my  collection (very  sad  to say )

Nonetheless  -  it's  an   amazing  bottle  and  worth every  cent  of the  RMB 20K  I paid for  it

Cheers
Peter



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