Landscape after Guo Xi

dated 1937

Not on view

This is an early work by C.C. Wang, painted while the artist and collector still lived in China. Though his later paintings show an attempt to adapt the training of his youth to twentieth century purposes, this painting shows him studiously channeling tradition, revealing a mastery of the brush idiom of the late eleventh-century landscapist Guo Xi (ca. 1000-ca. 1090); the majestic pines with “crab-claw” hooked branches, bold, wavy contour lines for rocks, and wavy texture strokes for rocks are hallmarks of this manner.

Artwork Details

近現代王季遷倣郭熙山水圖軸
Title: Landscape after Guo Xi
Artist: Wang Jiqian (C. C. Wang) (1907–2003)
Date: dated 1937
Culture: China
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions: Image: 35 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (91.1 × 50.5 cm)
Overall with mounting: 87 3/8 × 20 5/8 in. (221.9 × 52.4 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill, 2015
Object Number: 2017.327.9
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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