On the evening of October 18, at the auction of the 15th anniversary celebration of the Beijing Poly Auction, Wu Bin's famous work "The Ten-Side Spirit Bi Scroll" was sent to the buyer for 446 million yuan, and the commission was added to the total auction of 512.9 million yuan, breaking the world record for the auction of ancient Chinese artworks. Why can this "strange work" known as the Ming Dynasty strange stone be sold at a sky-high price? What other stories are there behind the painting?
A strange way to draw
Ten angles to depict strange stones
Auction house information shows that the "Ten-Side Spirit Bi Picture Scroll" was written by Wu Bin, a court painter in the Ming Dynasty, and was written around 1610 AD. Its author is considered to be one of the main advocates and leaders of the "transformist style" of late Ming characters and "revival of the Northern Song Dynasty classic landscape style". Enjoy the reputation of "painting immortal". He was summoned by the Shenzong Zhu Yijun and appointed as the Minister of the Secretariat and the head of the Ministry of Official Affairs. But before he became an official, he was purely a folk painter who had hidden in the mountains and forests, calling himself "Zhiyintoutuo".
Wu Bin's "Ten-Side Spirit Bi Picture" first picture: front front (pictured according to The Paper)
"Ten-Side Spirit Bi Picture Scroll" depicts the rare strange stone "Free-Free Stone" hidden by Mi Wanzhong, a lay Buddhist in Shiyin'an. The whole painting is divided into ten pictures, that is, the painter depicts "Free-Free Stone" with real size from ten angles such as the front, back, left, and right. The strange stones on the picture are like rising flames, very dynamic. In modern terms, the painting "solves the three-dimensional problem with three-dimensional methods". In addition to traditional Chinese painting brush and ink, it also uses geometric principles, rhythm and five elements.
Feifeishi is the best among the Mi Family stone collection. This long scroll is also a special work. It has become a representative of avant-garde innovation in Ming Dynasty paintings and is also one of the most respected and legendary peak paintings of the Ming Dynasty.
Sky-high work
31 years ago was sold for one million US dollars
not only has a unique painting, but also a story of the origin of this painting. Mi Wanzhong, who collects this strange stone, is a master of calligraphy and painting in the Ming Dynasty, but what he is most familiar with is the construction of the famous spoon garden located in , Haidian, Beijing. The reason why it is called a spoon garden is that it means "a spoon in Haidian". Today's scholars have verified that the Shaoyuan at that time covers an area of about 100 acres, and the water is covered with long dikes, quiet pavilions and rainbow bridges. It has the interest of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. It is one of the most famous private gardens in Beijing in the late Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, Shaoyuan was destroyed during the war in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. By the Qing Dynasty, a building was rebuilt in the old land of Shaoyuan. Since Qianlong, it has become a place for officials to rest on their way to the Old Summer Palace. British special envoy Macarney also stayed here when he was present to the Qing emperor. Today, the former site of Shaoyuan has become a part of Peking University.
And the former owner of Shaoyuan Mi Wanzhong is known for his "good stone" and spent a lot of energy collecting strange stones throughout his life. In the Wushen year of Wanli, when he was working in Liuhe County, Nanjing, he obtained a Lingbi stone. This stone has a majestic shape, considerable face, and has the beauty of the five elements. It is rugged and rugged, with the atmosphere of three mountains and five mountains. Mi Wanzhong was very happy and invited his friend painter Wu Bin to create a statue of stone, which was the origin of the creation of this volume. After the painting was completed, Mi Wanzhong still traveled thousands of miles away, and asked his friends, the leader of the painting world at that time, to write a postscript to this painting.
"Ten-Side Spirit Bi Picture Scroll" has a Mi Wanzhong's title on the right side. The pictures and texts match each picture, and the shape and spirit of the strange stone are about to emerge. The article's outline of the political ecology in the late Ming Dynasty and the historical dimension of the inheritance order, have attracted the attention of the world. In December 1989, "The Scroll of Ten-Sides of Spiritual Bi" was released at the New York , Sotheby's auction for the first time. It was sold at a sky-high price of US$1.21 million, which caused a sensation and became the first time since the establishment of Sotheby's auction that broke the transaction record of Chinese calligraphy and painting exceeding one million US dollars. 31 years later, on the evening of October 18, 2020, the work appeared at the auction again, and finally broke the record for auction of ancient Chinese artworks at a transaction price of 512.9 million yuan.
"Ten-sided Spiritual Bi Picture Scroll"
The trend of appreciating stones is prevalent
The Northern Song Dynasty began to be popular with stones
The ancients had a special liking for stones, and the trend of appreciating stones was prevalent. These strange stones formed by the essence of heaven and earth are often objects of depiction by painters and are painted in the picture so that the owner can enjoy a long time or show off to his relatives and friends.
In China, the collection of strange stones can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the famous poet Bai Juyi loved Taihu stone and wrote the article "Taihu Stone Record", which became an important document for studying the collection and appreciation of Taihu stones. When he arrived in the Northern Song Dynasty, Mi Fu, the ancestor of Mi Wanzhong, loved stones as if he was crazy, and when he saw the strange stones, he knelt down and bowed down. Song Huizong 's royal garden Genyue displays various strange stones. He is particularly fascinated by one of them called "Auspicious Dragon Stone" and painted the "Auspicious Dragon Stone Picture Scroll" to be used as a souvenir. The auspicious dragon stone is no longer visible today, but the scroll is treasured in the Palace Museum in Beijing. At this time, stone drawings were also started to be used to make stone plots, such as Du Wan's " Yunlin Stone Chart ", Yuyang Gong's "Yuyang Stone Chart", Chang Mao's "Xuanhe Stone Chart", etc., and by the Ming Dynasty Lin Youlin's "Suyuan Stone Chart" was the most complete.
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Those artworks that set sky-high prices
Zeng Fanzhi's "Mask Series 1996 NO.6"
On the evening of August 18, 2020, Beijing Yongle Auction 2020 Summer Auction "Modern and Contemporary Art Night Scene". Zeng Fanzhi's "Mask Series 1996 NO.6" was sold for 161 million yuan, surpassing the "HTM1 Last Supper " sold for HK$180 million in 2013, breaking Zeng Fanzhi's personal auction record and creating the highest auction price of contemporary Chinese art.
"Mask Series 1996 No.6" is an extremely rare multi-person portrait painting in Zeng Fanzhi's "Mask" series. In the painting, there are eight men and three women in total, lined up in one shape, wearing adult clothes and a white mask on the head. "Mask Series 1996 No. 6" is the most representative pinnacle of the artist, and it can be called the best in the "Mask" series.
Zeng Fanzhi's "Mask Series 1996 NO.6"
Qi Baishi "Twelve Screens of Landscapes"
2017 On the evening of December 17, 2017, at the Beijing Poly Autumn Auction "Shocking the Past and the Current - A Special Session of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Contemporary China's Calligraphy and Painting" created by Qi Baishi in 1925 attracted much attention. After 68 bids lasting more than 20 minutes, "Twelve Screens of Mountains and Waters" finally sold for 810 million yuan and added commissions for 931.5 million yuan.
Judging from the creation time of this set of "Twelve Screens of Landscapes" in 1925, Qi Baishi was 62 years old at that time, which was the fourth year of "reforms in the old age" changing the painting style. His ideological realm and artistic pursuits both crossed to a new era. At this time, Qi Baishi abandoned the previous Chinese landscape program and entered the realm of real mountains and true water creation of "washing the world and everything is empty". This work almost covers all the themes of Qi Baishi's landscape paintings, which can be regarded as the master of the sublimation of Qi Baishi's landscape creation.
Qi Baishi's "Twelve Screens of Landscapes" (four screens) (Photo according to The Paper)
Zeng Gong's "Journalism Post"
China Guardian 2016 Spring Auction "Grand View - Night of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Treasures·Ancient" special session, Zeng Gong's "Journalism Post", which once broke the auction record of Chinese calligraphy works at that time in 2009, started with 130 million yuan, and was sold for 180 million yuan, and was finally sold for 207 million yuan.
Zeng Gong (1019-1083), whose courtesy name is Zigu, was a Han nationality, and was from Jianchang Army. He was a native of Nanfeng (now Nanfeng County, Jiangxi Province). Later, he lived in Linchuan . He was an essayist, historian and politician of the Northern Song Dynasty. Zeng Gong had outstanding literary achievements. His writing was "elegant, flat, and harmonious". He was ranked among the eight great masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, and was known as "Mr. Nanfeng". "Journal of the Book" is the only piece of Zeng Gong's handed down from generation to generation discovered so far. It is a letter written to fellow villagers when Zeng Gong was 62 years old. Zeng Gong was already a sixty-year-old man at that time and was unable to return to the capital for 12 years. Therefore, this letter elaborated on the author's depressed and depressed state of mind, which was meaningful to read. Shortly after finishing writing "Journalism Post", Zeng Gong was finally summoned to Beijing. But only three years later, he passed away.
Li Keran's ",000 mountains are red in "
On November 15, 2015, Li Keran's painting "Wanshan is red in 184 million yuan.This key item of the China Guardian 2015 autumn auction "Grand View Night - Modern and Contemporary" special event touched the hearts of the industry and the outside world before the auction. The late 1950s to the early 1960s were the peak period for Li Keran's landscape painting creation. In 1956, he traveled to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hui, Hunan and Sichuan provinces and sketched for seven or eight months. In 1957, Li Keran and Guanliang sketched a lot in Dresden, the Elbe River and other places, using traditional brushstrokes to write about exotic natural and cultural landscapes. In 1959, he went to Guilin to sketch and created a number of important works that express the landscape of Lijiang River. Li Keran's practice of landscape sketching and creation is closely linked to his in-depth thinking and research on traditional painting theory.
Chicken Grooster Cup
In April 2014, at Sotheby's Spring Auction in Hong Kong, a chicken cup painted with a rooster and a hen to get a young chick in the flower stone for food. The chicken cup as small as a piece in the palm was sold at a total transaction price of HK$280 million.
chicken jar cup
chicken jar cup, wine utensil, with a diameter of about 8 cm, was fired in the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, about 600 years ago. Because there are roosters and hens on the wall of the cup, it is called chicken jar cup. The Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup is a royal wine glass for royalty. It has high requirements when cooking, so the yield rate is not high. The best products are dedicated to the palace, while the inferior products are destroyed, so the number of people spread to the public is very small. The chicken jar cup is colorful and vivid, with straightforward and charming paintings. It is called a "god product" in the industry. The existing Ming Chenghua Doucai chicken jar cup is recognized as the authentic product and has been preserved intact, with only 10 pieces.
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