Bird Study with Narcissus and Rock, after Chen Hongshou

Xie Zhiliu Chinese

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This composition after Chen Hongshou includes Chen's inscription: "On a snowy night in the wuchen year [1628] I got drunk by the Ruoye River [near Chen's hometown].My friend pressured me to paint, even though my ten fingers almost cracked from the cold. This is painted when I had more leisure. Hongshou painted this while intoxicated in my study."

In the upper right corner is an unrelated study of a bird that appears in finished form in Doves and Bamboo, which Xie executed in 1949.

Bird Study with Narcissus and Rock, after Chen Hongshou, Xie Zhiliu (Chinese, 1910–1997), Drawing mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on paper, China

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