Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy 字畫 - 13 Nov 2018
ATTRIBUTED TO SHEN ZHOU (19TH CENTURY) AUTUMN LANDSCAPE A Chinese scroll painting
沈周(傳) 江南秋色圖 水墨紙本 立軸
ATTRIBUTED TO SHEN ZHOU (19TH CENTURY)
AUTUMN LANDSCAPE
A Chinese scroll painting, ink and colour on paper, title-slip reads Ming Shen Shi Tian cao tang qiu se tu, inscribed, dated autumn of the ren zi year,signed with three artist's seals and two illegible seals, 134cm x 44.5cm.
Provenance: from the collection of general Long Yun and thence by descent. Long Yun (1884-1962) was the late governor and general of Yunnan. Long was an extraordinary man, known as the 'King of Yunnan'. General Long governed Yunnan for eighteen years, and was appointed commander-in-chief of the Army of the Nationalist party of China, when fighting the Japanese.
款識:九月霜甘木葉黃,江南秋色滿斜陽。西山佳處堪高隱,佔斯風光是草堂。壬子墓秋之望,長洲沈周。
鈐印:沈、南啓、石田、宗舜年、一漫漶不辨。
來源:雲南王龍雲將軍舊藏,并由其後人繼承。