ZHANG DAQIAN 張大千 (Neijiang, China, 1899 - 1983)

Album of eight flower paintings

20th Century

A silk-bound album containing eight studies of various flowers

Ink and colour on paper, mounted as a concertina book

With artist's colophons and red seals

Together with a silk bag

each painting approx. 25.6cm high, 24.7cm wide

the closed book 22.6cm high, 12.3cm wide

張大千 花卉集錦冊

二十世紀

設色絹本 冊頁 連絲袋

款識：

（一）大千居士五亭湖上寫。鈐印：「張爰私印」、「大千居士」

（二）蜀人張大千爰，丙午二月二十五日寫時盆蘭方開，此在海外至不易者，予素怯畫蘭，此際乃如謝公屐齒之折，忘形可笑。 鈐印：「張爰」、「三千大千」

（三）爰翁。鈐印：「張爰長年大吉又日利」

（四）爰翁。鈐印：「張爰」

（五）秋涼矣。屋角紫薇猶盛開，喜寫一枝。爰。鈐印：「張爰之印信」

（六）順華見過三巴，日談藝事，偶及畫菊試為寫之。爰。鈐印：「三千大千」

（七）爰皤。鈐印：「張爰」

（八）丙午二月二十五日，為順華世兄寫小冊八頁，在越國當春，而此間則為秋初也。爰。鈐印：「張爰印信」、「大千居士」

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PROVENANCE:

UK Private Collection

來源：

英國私人收藏

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Zhang Daqian was born in 1899 in Sichuan province during the final years of the Qing Dynasty. Born into an artistic family, he was first taught to paint by his mother and older siblings. He later spent a short time as a novice in a Buddhist monastery in order to escape a pre-arranged marriage, and it was here the name Daqian was given to him. In 1917 he left for Japan to study weaving and textile dying in Kyoto. He further his studies in painting and calligraphy under the tutelage of Zeng Xi (1861-1930) and Li Ruiqing (1867-1920), and personally studied the ‘individualist’ artists Shitao (1642-ca.1710) and Bada Shanren (ca. 1626-1705), both of the latter being yimin artists active soon after the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Like many other Chinese artists born in the late-19th century, the political turmoil and social upheaval that defined the following decades provided the young artist with both challenges and opportunities. Zhang Daqian was renowned for mastering many painting techniques, and his oeuvre included detailed portraits and dramatic, expressive ink-splashed landscapes. Straddling the intersection between traditional Chinese painting techniques and more-radical aesthetic expressions, Zhang Daqian is regarded as one of China's most important artists.

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