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Landscape after Guo Zhongshu

mid-1600s-1705

Bada Shanren 八大山人

(Chinese, 1626–1705)

China, Qing dynasty

(1644-1911)

Hanging scroll, ink on paper

Image: 109.9 x 56.4 cm (43 1/4 x 22 3/16 in.); Overall: 247.7 x 84.5 cm (97 1/2 x 33 1/4 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1955.36

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Description

The practice of imitating the work of the masters was to acquire the brush techniques and methods of the ancient masters as the basis for new creative work-an act of establishing spiritual communion with the ancient masters. Zhu Da, in his inscription, acknowledges that this painting was done after the early Song master Guo Zhongshu 郭忠恕. Despite this artistic claim, there is almost no tangible stylistic relation to be found between Zhu Da and his 10th-century model. This painting reveals the vigorous force of the artist's own individual approach and a stylistic reference to Dong Qichang.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Artist's inscription, signature, and 3 seals: Painting after Guo Shuxian [Guo Zhongshu]. Bada shanren. [2 seals] Shanren; Kede shenxian 可得神仙. [seal, lower left corner] Yaozhu 遥属

Inscription

8 additional seals: 1 of Li Shifen (1821-1885); 4 of Chang Yüan 張爰 [Zhang Daqian 張大千] (1899-1983); 3 unidentified.

Provenance

Chang Dai-chien [Zhang Daqian 張大千] [1899-1983]

?-1955

(Walter Hochstadter [1914-2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1955-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Zhang, Daqian 張大千. Da feng tang shu hua lu 大風堂書畫錄. Chengdu: [publisher not identified], 1943. p. 42(b)

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. Reproduced: cat. no. 98

Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. Mentioned and Reproduced: V, 154; VII, Lists, 325

Lee, Sherman E. “The Two Styles of Chu Ta.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 45, no. 9, 1958, pp. 215–219. Mentioned: pp. 218, 219; Reproduced: p. 210 www.jstor.org

Grousset, René. Chinese Art & Culture. London: A. Deutsch, 1959. Reproduced: pl. 58

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962. Mentioned: p. 116, no. 92

Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 446, 451, fig. 592

Zhang, Wanli 張萬里 and Hu Renmu 胡仁牧. Badashanren shu hua ji 八大山人書畫集. Xianggang Jiulong: Kai fa gu fen you xian gong si, 1969. Reproduced: I, pl. 11

Chu Ta: Selected Paintings & Calligraphy. [Poughkeepsie, N.Y.]: [publisher not identified], 1973. Reproduced: cat. no. 2

Yonezawa, Yoshiho 米澤嘉圃 and Takeyoshi Tsuruta 鶴田武良. Hachidai Sanjin, Yōshū hakkai 八大山人・揚州八怪. Tōkyō: Kōdansha, Shōwa 50 [1975]. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 156, pl. 68

Fu, Shen 傅申. Ming Qing zhi ji di ke bi gou le feng shang yu Shitao di zao qi zuo pin [明清之際的渴筆勾勒風尚與石濤的早期作品 = An aspect of mid-seventeenth century Chinese painting: The "dry linear" style and the early work of Tao-chi]. Hong Kong: Xianggang Zhong wen da xue [香港中文大學 = The Chinese University of Hong Kong], 1976. p. 596

Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. Reproduced: cat. no. 236, p. 319-320

Wang, Fangyu, Richard M. Barnhart, and Judith G. Smith. Master of the Lotus Garden: The Life and Art of Bada Shanren, 1626-1705. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Art Gallery, 1990. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 173-174, cat. no. 49

Exhibition history

Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1954).

Fifteen Chinese Paintings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Smith College Museum, Northampton, MA (1964).

Chu Ta. Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY (1973).

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 21, 2013-July 28, 2014).

Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).

Fifteen Chinese Paintings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (October 9-28, 1964).

Chu Ta: Selected Paintings and Calligraphy. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (organizer) (December 2, 1972-January 28, 1973); The New York Cultural Center, New York, NY (February 28-April 15, 1973).

Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-December 13, 1987).

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