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Lot 431
IN THE STYLE OF XIE SHICHEN (1487- AFTER 1567)
Estimated Value:
2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result:
2.849 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
China, ca. 16th/ 17th c.106 x 39,3 cm
Autumn Landscape, ink and light colors on silk, mounte das hanging scroll. Inscription and signature by the artist: Seven-word poem, »painted by Xie Shichen". Two seals of the artist: „Seal of Xie Shichen" (Xie Shichen yin), "Xie shi Sizhong". One collector’s seal.
Collection of the German painter Joachim Schlotterbeck (1926-2007), assembled in the 1960’s in Germany
Xie Shichen, style name Sizhong, was a native of Suzhou and also spent his lifé there. He seems to have been a professional painter who combined an expressive own style of literatl painting with elements of the academic tradition like the mountaln peaks in light Ink wash in the upper left in this painting. It shows the characteristlc style of Xie Shichen very well. The wavy lines and flying dots of the rocks and trees are mainly derived from the famous literati painter Shen Zhou (1427-1509) who was his main model - Wear, restorations
