Landscape and Calligraphy
The landscape, a hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, inscribed by the artist and dated yihai (1815), and signed Mansheng Chen Hongshou with two artist seals; together with a calligraphy couplet, mounted, ink on paper, signed Chen Hongshou with two artist's seals.
Landscape: 31 3/8 x 12 1/4in (79.5 x 31.2cm);
Couplet: 49 1/4 x 10in (125 x 25.4cm), each
(3).
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Estate of Professor Paul A. Cohen (1934-2025)
Landscape paintings by Chen Hongshou are exceedingly rare. Another of his surviving landscapes, also executed in the boneless manner, painted four years before the present lot, was formerly in the King-Kwei Collection of J.D. Chen (Chen Rentao, 1906-1968) and was offered at Christie's Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy, 26 November 2012, lot 876.
陳鴻壽(1768-1822) 臨趙孟頫沒骨山水 設色紙本 立軸 一八一五年作
陳鴻壽(1768-1822) 行書七言聯 水墨紙本 立軸成對
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款識:偶見趙文敏畫沒骨山一幀,戲臨之,過遂變成此種相,筆墨之不肖,亦無可如何也。乙亥六月十有四日,曼生陳鴻壽。
鈐印:曼生、陳鴻壽印
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款識:奇花有首開逾秀,滿月無波望轉深。陳鴻壽。
鈐印:鴻壽之印、曼生
題簽:
(一)陳曼生行書七言,廿四年四月
(二)陳曼生行書七言,(闕一字)氏重裝
柯文教授(Paul A. Cohen,1934–2025)遺珍
陳鴻壽所作山水存世極稀,其另一幀沒骨山水,作於本拍品四年前,見香港佳士得2012年11月26日「中國古代書畫」專場拍品876,為陳仁濤金匱室舊藏。