Artist: Huang Binhong (1865 - 1955)
Waterside Landscape
Ink and color on paper, Yisebiao mount, Vertical Axis
Painting (Sight): Length: 94 cm, Width: 33 cm
Dated: In The Jia Wu year, Binhong's Ninty-one years of age (1954)
Signed/Seal(s): Signed, with Two seals

PROVENANCE:

These Important Paintings collection all originated from one prominent collector, spanning from Lot-95 to Lot-160 (Day 1), continuing from Lot-402 to Lot-456 (Day 2).

LOT NOTES:

Huang Binhong (1865 - 1955) was a Chinese art historian and painter born in Jinhua in Zhejiang province. He was the grandson of artist Huang Fengliu. He is considered one of the last innovators in the style of painting and is noted for his freehand landscapes. His painting style showed the influence of the earlier painters Li Liufang, Cheng Sui, Cheng Zhengkui, and Kun Can. He also had significance for creating several societies devoted to painting and calligraphy. Huang Binhong's work and ideas reached maturity during the 1930s and '40s. In his writings from this period, Huang advocated studying the Tang and Song works to trace the past, in order to initiate the future. He wrote "Huafa yaozhi" (Principles of Paintings) in 1934, in which he explained his five ways of using the brush and his seven ways of using ink. He derived his style from the close study of Chinese tradition and of nature. Huang Binhong was among the first to point out the significance of the Xing'an School of painting in his scholarly writings of the early 1940s. Beside the Xi'an School, Huang was also influenced by Dong Qichang. Despite these ancient influences, some of his painting techniques, especially his experiments with the effects of light and his autonomous use of brush and ink, converged with those of Western Impressionism and Modernism. He developed calligraphic strokes in his works, forming a richly integrated style in which he manipulated solid and void. At the end of his career, when his eyesight was failing, Huang Binhong nearly departed from figuration in his paintings, while still infusing them with the essential spirit and resonance of the natural landscape. When he was 80 he had his first solo retrospective in Shanghai.