Qi baishi biography of albert

  • Qi Baishi.
  • TODAY'S BIRTHDAY: Qi Baishi (1 January 1864 – 16 September 1957) was a Chinese painter, noted for the whimsical, often playful style of his.
  • Qi Baishi was a Chinese painter, noted for the whimsical, often playful style of his works.

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    Qi Baishi (1864-1957)

    Three Shrimps
    Ink on paper, hanging scroll
    Inscribed and signed Baishi laoren, with two seals of the artist
    36.5 x 28.2cm (14⅜ x 11⅛in)

    Footnotes

    Kenneth Ferguson (1930-2016), was born in Gateshead, England in 1930. He was summoned to join HM Forces (RAF) in 1949, served at the Ministry of National Insurance before he entered the Foreign Office by examination, coming out top in 1952. He was dispatched to Washington DC, USA in the following year, where he met and married Mrs. Ferguson.

    On Sep 22, 1955, the couple set foot in Beijing, China for their very first diplomatic brev in the Far East. The collection of six wonderful paintings by Qi Baishi, the most beloved Chinese artist of his time, was the happy reminiscence of their life in the ancient oriental capital. They stayed in Beijing for over 2 years, bygd the end of November 1957, they moved on to their next journey in Tehran, followed subsequently by Moscow, Brussels, Warsaw, Dublin, besatthet

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    Beschreibung:

    Lot details China, dated 1944. Ink on paper. Mounted as a hanging scroll, with a silk brocade coated paper frame and wooden handles. Superbly painted in the artist’s characteristic simple lines and spontaneous style, full of vitality and vivacity, to depict a cluster of shrimps integrated to the whole scene despite each shrimp displaying distinctive features from the other. Inscriptions: To the right margin, ‘In March of the year Jiashen (corresponding to 1944), the old man Baishi painted it at the age of eighty-three.’ 甲申三月八十三岁白石老人画. Two seals. The reverse inscribed, ‘Qi Baishi – Shrimp‘. Provenance: Czech private collection. Previously sold at European Arts Investments Ltd., Prague, 20 November 2016, lot 90 for CZK 1,800,000 (approx. EUR 110,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing). Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and little foxing. The mounting with usual traces of wear and age. Dimensions: Image size 88 x 30 cm, Size incl. fr

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    QI BAISHI (1864-1957)

    Cooked Crabs and Wine, 1946
    Mounted for framing, ink and color on paper, inscribed by the artist and signed Baishi Laoren, with an artist's seal Qi Huang lao hu.
    21 3/4 x 13 1/4in (55.5 x 34cm)

    Footnotes

    齊白石（1864-1957） 蟹酒圖 設色紙本 鏡心 一九四六年作

    款識：白石老人夜鐙餘興，時年八十六矣
    鈐印：齊璜老乎

    Provenance:
    A gift from Huang Yongyu (b. 1924) to Gerard Desput, circa 1959, thereafter by descent

    來源：
    約1959年黃永玉贈德士普（Gerard Desput），繼而由後代遞藏

    This composition of cooked crabs, accompanied by two bottles of wine and a cup

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