Artist: Master Hongyi 弘一 (1880 - 1942)
Waterside Landscape
Ink on paper, Yisebiao mount, Vertical axis hanging scroll
Painting (Sight): Length: 135 cm, Width: 25 cm
Dated: In the Light-snowy day of Gui Chou year (1913)
Signed/Seal(s): Signed, with an Artist seal

PROVENANCE:

Nien Cheng 念鄭 or Zheng Nian 鄭念 (January 28, 1915 - November 2, 2009) was the pen name of Yao Nien-Yuan (姚念媛). She was a Chinese author known for recounting her experiences during the Cultural Revolution in her memoir Life and Death in Shanghai.

ARTIST BIO: Master Hongyi 弘一 (1880 - 1942) formerly known as Li Shutong, also known as Li Xishuang, Li An, and Li Liang; Born in a rich family, talented and intelligent, "Twenty articles shocked the world", he studied oil painting in Dongdu Fusang in his youth. He is talented, and he is almost omniscient in all art categories, and his achievements are beyond the reach of others. He is an artistic all-rounder in modern China, covering a wide range of languages, including Japanese, English, Italian, drama, oil painting, sketching, Chinese painting, music, poetry, calligraphy, epigraphy, patterns, advertising, and all.

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