GU YUN 顧澐 (Changzhou, China, 1835-1896)

Landscape

Dated 1892

Ink and colour on paper, mounted as a hanging scroll

Artist's colophon and two red seals

118cm high, 44cm wide

顧澐 山水

1892年作

設色紙本 立軸

款識：光緒壬辰秋八月畫。□□之先生法家教心。若波顧澐。

鈐印：「顧澐之印」、「若波又號雲壺」

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PROVENANCE:

Property of a French Private Collection formed in Hong Kong during the 1960s

來源：

法國私人收藏，1960年代在香港組成

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Gu Yun (1835-1896) was a native of present-day Suzhou in Jiangsu province who later joined the community of artists in Shanghai. Gu Yun, whose courtesy name was Ruobo, was supposedly a frequent visitor of Gu Wenbin's ‘Hall of Passing Clouds’, where he copied the collection's masterpieces from the Song to Qing dynasties. The current lot exhibits this refined and understated style, infused with a profound respect for the masters of ancient times. In 1888 he travelled to Japan and stayed at the Qing embassy, and many of his works remained in the country until they were destroyed by the fires caused by the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923.

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