Mountain Landscape in the style of Shiqi (1612-ca.1673)

Object Details

• Artist

  Zhang Daqian 張大千 (China, 1899-1983)

• Provenance

  Unknown collector, Germany [1]

  1993

  Sale, Sotheby's, New York, sale #6479, June 2, 1993, lot no. 94 [2]

  To 1993

  Manshih Yonfan, Hong Kong, to 1993

  From 1993

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, given by Yon Fan in 1993

  Notes:

  [1] This painting was sold at Sotheby's New York on June 2, 1993, lot 94 (sale #6479). Laura Whitman (formerly, Whitman Provost) of Sotheby's reported to Fu Shen in a fax dated September 21, 1993, "we have received the information that you requested from the consignor regarding the provenance of the Zhang Daqian painting. The painting was apparently in a vast European collection, assembled by the collector for the most part during the 1940s and 1950s. Although there is no specific information regarding this particular painting, it would have been in the collector's possession in Germany since well before 1973" (according to Provenance Record 1, entered by Jan Stuart, October 16, 2001, in the object record).

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Gifts to the Collection: 1987-2012 (June 23 to December 17, 2012)

  The Arts of China (November 18, 1990 to September 7, 2014)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Sotheby's (New York)

  Manshih Yonfan

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Yonfan, Hong Kong

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1930s

• Name

  Yonfan, Manshih, Sotheby's (New York)

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Mountains, Landscapes, Art, Waterfalls, Chinese Art, Modern period (1912 - present)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Paintings