近現代 王季遷 倣郭熙山水圖 軸|Landscape after Guo Xi

Wang Jiqian (C. C. Wang)

dated 1937 · Hanging scroll; ink on paper · Asian Art

This is an early work by C.C. Wang, painted while the artist and collector still lived in China. Though his later paintings show an attempt to adapt the training of his youth to twentieth century purposes, this painting shows him studiously channeling tradition, revealing a mastery of the brush idiom of the late eleventh-century landscapist Guo Xi (ca. 1000-ca. 1090); the majestic pines with “crab-claw” hooked branches, bold, wavy contour lines for rocks, and wavy texture strokes for rocks are hallmarks of this manner.

Artist

Wang Jiqian (C. C. Wang)

Date

dated 1937

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Bequest of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill, 2015