MOUNTAINS IN AUTUMN

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SHEN ZHOU (1427-1509)
MOUNTAINS IN AUTUMN
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and color on paper
Inscribed and signed by the artist, dated xinchou year of the Chenghua era (1481)
Second inscription by the artist in which he commented:

It has been two decades since I first painted this. Twenty-two years have passed like a day. I do not recall for whom I painted this [picture]. My hair and teeth have fallen out; I no longer look young and happy like before. Everything is in decline. Someone bought back this painting on the market. As it cannot be sold for 700 wen, I returned it to him, with lamentations on how things wax and wane, and that life is so short.

Second inscription dated renxu year of the Hongzhi era (1502), at the age of 76 sui
One seal of the artist
Two collector's seals of Ding Nianxian (1906-1969)
One illegible collector's seal
58 x 22 5/8 in. (147.5 x 57 cm.)

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Lot Essay

A fellow native of Suzhou, C.C. Wang acquired this painting by Shen Zhou in Hong Kong, and it has remained in his family for several decades. He gifted it to his eldest daughter, who is a painter, so that she could study it to understand and master Shen Zhou's style. In keeping with tradition, C.C. Wang emphasized the importance of brushwork and learned and taught by copying the works of ancient masters. The brushwork, as well as the composition and mood, in this painting typifies Shen Zhou's characteristic style of the period and compares well with Walking with a Staff, created around 1485, in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

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