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Wu Li 1632-1718 โ€” Wu Li, Landscape after Wang Meng

Wu Li 1632-1718

Wu Li, Landscape after Wang Meng

Wu Li's "Landscape after Wang Meng" demonstrates the artist's engagement with the literati painting tradition through his emulation of the Yuan master Wang Meng's compositional vocabulary and brushwork techniques. Executed in ink on a fan leaf format, the work showcases the delicate balance of monumental landscape forms compressed into an intimate, portable surface. As a late Ming to early Qing painter and eventual Buddhist monk, Wu Li synthesized classical precedents with his own refined sensibility, creating a work that reflects both scholarly reverence for past masters and personal artistic vision.

Medium
ink on paper, fan leaf

๐Ÿ”จ Auction Lot

Painting and Calligraphy on fans from the Xiao Wan Liu Tang Collection ๆ‰‡ๆตทโ”€ๅฐ่ฌๆŸณๅ ‚่ˆŠ่—ๆ˜Žๆธ…ๆ›ธ็•ซๆ‰‡้ข

October 16, 2024

Estimate: $80,000 โ€“ $160,000

Lot 7063

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Wu Li 1632-1718, Wu Li, Landscape after Wang Meng

Wu Li's "Landscape after Wang Meng" demonstrates the artist's engagement with the literati painting tradition through his emulation of the Yuan master Wang Meng's compositional vocabulary and brushwork techniques. Executed in ink on a fan leaf format, the work showcases the delicate balance of monumental landscape forms compressed into an intimate, portable surface. As a late Ming to early Qing painter and eventual Buddhist monk, Wu Li synthesized classical precedents with his own refined sensibility, creating a work that reflects both scholarly reverence for past masters and personal artistic vision.

Medium
ink on paper, fan leaf
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

17th-18th Century, Contemplative, Classical Tradition, Chinese Artist, Hanging Scroll, Landscape, Scholar-Artist, Monochromatic, Ink and wash on paper, Literati Painting

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