Artist: Fu Baoshi
Date: 1943
Size: 75 x 36 cm
Technique: Paper
Painting materials were not easy to acquire during the war, but kindred souls still shared them. Fu’s inscription tells us that he painted this landscape after receiving a gift of old ink cakes from a friend. The painting was also done to remember another deceased friend who had offered him ink. Fu adds, “These ink cakes may not have been considered marvelous in the past; today, when given, they are as precious as one hundred friends.” Here, the portrayal of light and atmosphere through a consummate control of richly graduated ink washes is indebted to the Japanese artist Takeuchi Seiho (1864–1942).
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