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「小聽颿樓」藏畫 拍品編號9001-9052 — Zhang Ruitu, Poem in Cursive Script

「小聽颿樓」藏畫 拍品編號9001-9052

Zhang Ruitu, Poem in Cursive Script

This handscroll by Zhang Ruitu presents a poem rendered in cursive script (caoshu), a highly expressive and fluid calligraphic style that demands considerable technical mastery and artistic sensibility. The work exemplifies the literati tradition of combining poetry and calligraphy on silk, where the brushwork conveys both textual meaning and aesthetic beauty through dynamic ink variations and rhythmic stroke patterns. As a cursive script composition, the piece showcases the artist's distinctive hand and interpretive approach to one of Chinese calligraphy's most challenging and revered scripts.

Medium
ink on silk, handscroll

🔨 Auction Lot

Fine Classical Chinese Paintings

November 19, 2024

Estimate: $300,000$600,000

Lot 9025

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「小聽颿樓」藏畫 拍品編號9001-9052, Zhang Ruitu, Poem in Cursive Script

This handscroll by Zhang Ruitu presents a poem rendered in cursive script (caoshu), a highly expressive and fluid calligraphic style that demands considerable technical mastery and artistic sensibility. The work exemplifies the literati tradition of combining poetry and calligraphy on silk, where the brushwork conveys both textual meaning and aesthetic beauty through dynamic ink variations and rhythmic stroke patterns. As a cursive script composition, the piece showcases the artist's distinctive hand and interpretive approach to one of Chinese calligraphy's most challenging and revered scripts.

Medium
ink on silk, handscroll
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Poetry, Calligraphy, Classical, Chinese Artist, Vertical Scroll, Ming Dynasty, Cursive Script, Elegant, Literati Art, Ink on Paper

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