HE SHOU/ HE GUANWU

Description:

China, dated 1924
161 x 47 cm, R.
Summer Mountains after Wang Hui. Framed under glass, ink on paper. Two inscriptions and signature by the artist: “Copy of the painting ‘Summer Mountains’ of Huanghe shanren (Wang Meng, 1308-1385) by Gengyan sanren (Wang Hui, 1632-1717). … In the mengqiu (7th) month of the jiazi year (1924), Guanwu He Shou.” Three seals of the artist: “Guanwu”, “Jieyitang zhuren” etc. “Lady Tan Jiequan insisted to give the painting as a present to the great statesman Shinaide (Schneider) for examining the old work. I wrote this and ask for correction, in the winter of the jisi year (1929), again inscribed by Guanwu.” Two seals of the artist: “He Shoukang yin”, “Guanwu”.
Old North German private collection, in the family of the present owner since 1929 when the painting has been dedicated to a family member
He Shou, style names Shoukang and Guanwu, was a landscape painter from Sanshui in Guangdong province. He worked in the orthodox literati style of Wang Jian and Wang Hui. He founded the Kuihai Painters' Association (later renamed "Association of the Study of Classical Paintings") with Huang Junbi and other Hainan painters in 1923, had an extensive collection of paintings under the name of "Tianxi Studio" - Minor traces of age