As we all know, this picture is ok. I have never heard of it before. Only one day, we found that the statues of six dragons actually sold for 300 million RMB. Then some people will ask, why is this six dragons map so precious? Hehe, it's really worth a lot of money. Just look at its story, let's analyze it, reveal the secret and see what happened.
Recently, Christie's International Auction House announced that it will launch a special auction of "Fujita Art Collection Important China Art" in new york auction season on March 17. All the items in the auction hall come from the collection of Fujita Art Museum in Osaka, including six ancient paintings and calligraphy works recorded in the "Zhu Lin Shiqu Treasure Hall" in the Qing Palace.
These six paintings and calligraphy works include "Walking Horse" by Gan, "Border Bridge" by North, "Wild Goose" by Lingyang and "Liu" by Southern Song Dynasty.
How did these precious and well-preserved paintings and calligraphy works spanning 800 years reach Japan? Facts have proved that the Qing palace has always had the habit of enslaving the monarch Baylor and getting close to ministers. During the Jiaqing period, the awards of court calligraphers and famous paintings gradually increased, especially after Daoguang, and some of them were awarded to the famous and important official Prince Gong. In this way, Baodi's calligraphy and painting in Shiqu spread from Qing Palace to Gongwangfu. During the Republic of China, in order to support the restoration of the Qing Dynasty and raise the salary, Puyi, the heir of Prince Gong, auctioned and sold a large number of antiques, calligraphy and paintings in the palace. A large part of it was sold to Japanese antique dealers. Yamamoto sold them to the owner of Fujita Art Museum, the Japanese industrialist Baron Fujita, who founded Fujita Art Museum in 1954. Due to lack of funds, Fujita Art Museum has encountered difficulties in recent years. It is said that the museum doesn't even have zero adjustment equipment. In order to further improve the management level and future development of Fujita Art Museum, Fujita Art Museum had to reluctantly give up and auction all its China cultural relics and treasures.
Among the six paintings and calligraphy works, Chen Rong's Six Dragons is the most valued by hand, with the price ranging from $6,543,800+2,000 to $6,543,800+8,000. The portrait is 440.7cm long and 34.3cm wide, and the calligraphy ruler is 83cm long and 35. 1cm wide. These works include inscriptions by Emperor Li Zong of the Southern Song Dynasty and his ministers, as well as an ancient poem by Chen Rong himself.
Chen Rong's Six Dragons Handscroll
Chen Rong's Six Dragons Handscroll
Chen Rong's Six Dragons Handscroll
Chen Rong's Six Dragons Handscroll
Chen Rong, a painter in the Southern Song Dynasty, was originally named Gong Chu, a native of Changle, Fujian, Fuqing and Linchuan, Jiangxi. He was a painter and calligrapher in Li Zong's time in the Southern Song Dynasty. Records show that his poetry is brilliant, bold and unconstrained, and his composition is long, large and outstanding. Li Zongduanping was a scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty for two years. His name is Pingyang County. He was the chief official of imperial academy and later became the governor of Putian, Fujian. He is an official of Dr. Chaoshan.
In Chen Rong's "Six Dragons", he not only showed the expressions and movements of Kowloon, but also highlighted the surrounding scenery of Kowloon, such as the appearance of fog and stones, further highlighting the different postures of Kowloon. In Six the Year of the Loong, Chen Rong used dry and wet ink to show clouds, rocks and rushing water from different angles, vividly depicting the scene of playing in Kowloon.
When the author asked Zhu Shaoliang, an ancient connoisseur of calligraphy and painting, what he thought of the "Six Dragons", he said: "He is good at drawing dragons, just like Fu, a modern painter, who always believes in hand-drawing and immediately draws dragons on paper silk. Chen Rong's dragon portrait has the same sound. If people see its shape, the ink is spilled, treated with clear water, and it becomes a cloud. Misty water spraying is called "Suowenlong". Guo, an art theorist in the Northern Song Dynasty, pointed out in the Catalogue Year: "Those who draw dragons can be divided into three stops and nine images. The beauty of not being able to swim and tangle lies in fitting the coil up and down. Or mane, mane, elbow hair, row steadily and quickly, and straight out the meat is better. ""
Teacher Zhu went on to say, "The characteristics of the dragon paintings in Song Dynasty are: the dragon head is three-dimensional, hairless, the dragon body has no twists and turns, the four feet are fat, the claws are divided into four fingers, there is no elbow hair, the tail is a hyena, and the tail is like a snake's tail; The dragon paintings in Yuan Dynasty are characterized by a flat head, a winding body, thin and hard feet, three fingers with claws, and a flame-like elbow and tail hyenas. After the Yuan Dynasty, the tail was like a phoenix tail, like a dragon pot hidden in the Forbidden City. The characteristics of dragon paintings in Ming Dynasty: the coarseness of Buron Yuan. Its horns, beard, hair, eyebrows, hyenas, fins and elbow hair are all intact. Its hair flies up and forward, and its mouth is open. The dragon's nose is wishful thinking and its tail is tilted up. The characteristics of dragon paintings in Qing dynasty: the dragon's hair was cut off, and the dragon's lower jaw was longer than the upper jaw, which increased the dragon's sense of terror. In Gan Long, the faucet looks like the head of a runner. The shape of a dragon is full of teeth and claws.
Finally, Zhu said: "The six dragons painted by Christie's reflect the characteristics of dragon paintings in the Song Dynasty and conform to the style of pen and ink." .
Chen Rong's original works are not handed down from generation to generation. According to the records in Shiqu Treasure in Qing Dynasty, Emperor Gan Long collected maps of Kowloon, Six Dragons and Lin Yu in Chen Rong, which showed that Chen Rong's paintings were valued by royal collectors. Today, Chen Rong's works handed down from generation to generation include The Picture of Kowloon by Boston Art Museum, The Picture of Murong by Guangdong Museum, The Picture of Wulong by Tokyo National Museum and The Picture of Lin Yu by the Palace Museum.
The map of Lin Yu in Chen Rong is in the Palace Museum.
Since ancient times, the dragon has been a symbol of imperial power. Before the Song Dynasty, although the image of the dragon had been depicted, the real "experts" in dragon painting began to appear in the Song Dynasty. Dong Yu, Wang, Ai Shu and Gao Monk in the Northern Song Dynasty were all famous dragon painters. Among them, Chen Rong in the Southern Song Dynasty was the best at drawing dragons, and his works became a model for later generations to draw dragons. Japanese painters say that Chen Rong's dragon painting is the highest level of human painting. It is said that in Japan, up to now, most paintings with dragon patterns are imitations of Chen Rong's dragon paintings. Junichiro Koizumi, a famous Japanese painter, commented that the dragons in Chen Rong are full of charm and lifelike. Only a genius can draw such a picture!
The dragon painted by Chen Rong is magnificent, changeable and lifelike. It was famous during the Bao years of the Southern Song Dynasty. He is good at using pen and ink and is deeply influenced by change. Chen Rong has a unique skill in drawing a dragon's face: he doesn't draw a whole dragon, or a song, or a paw. He spilled ink into the clouds, and then sprayed water on the dragon, appearing and disappearing, as if he heard its voice and saw its shape, which was very wonderful.
Chen Rong likes to paint on impulse after drinking. He painted clouds, water and strange rocks with ink in order to set off a vibrant, intertwined, unforgettable and faintly visible dragon. His brushwork is vigorous and powerful. He has a strong dynamic, physical and mysterious atmosphere. Later generations described his works as "misty clouds, dancing rain, low sky, towering sea, arrogant and mysterious scenes of Teng Xiangsheng". Especially when they are drunk, shout loudly, take off their towels, get their hands wet, and then write with a pen, they can blossom wonderful brushstrokes. Chen Rong's dragon paintings not only depict the shape of dragons and express his thoughts, but also mainly express his political views and lofty aspirations. At that time, Mohist poets were lucky enough to get a pair of "Suowenlong".
Legend has it that before he painted dragons, he ordered his family to bring two cans of green wine, put them in the middle of the studio, and then tied the door behind him. He also asked his family to tie a thick chain to the hoop outside the door. In this way, he can comfortably lie on the couch and drink green and red wine bowl after bowl. The next stop is Yongtai Li Gan. He drank a bowl of wine and chewed a dried plum. After drinking two cans of green wine, Li Gan chewed it out. Chen Rong is drunk and can't tell East from West. Just then, I stood up from the sofa, took off my headscarf, wetted my head with ink, and kept shouting, "Drunk? Not drunk! " After that, he threw the headscarf on the paper with both hands, then crumpled it up and shouted, "Go!" " "Throw the headscarf into the empty wine jar, then raise the fine brushwork a few times, and the paper leaps and bounds.
Chen Rong's Palace Poetry is a pioneer in creating this special art form of painting poems. He likes literature and often talks about poetry and literary works with local literati friends. As a writer and painter, every time he paints, he makes his own preface, paints poems and reflections, and reveals the meaning in the painting.
Chen Rong also painted pine and bamboo, and learned Li Yu's "hook and lock" method. In his later years, calligraphy was simple and delicate, and his crimson color was comparable to that of Dong Yu. Chen Rong occasionally draws tigers. His hair is very thin.
A volume of Map of Kowloon collected by Boston Art Museum, written in the fourth year of Li Zongchun, is a paper and ink book with a length of 46.3 cm and a width of 1096.4 cm. There are nine dragons in the picture scroll, which are divided into rocks, clouds and rapids. The first dragon jumped out of the rock. The second dragon rises from the clouds. The third dragon held the stone in his arms, bent down and crawled, making a positive gesture. The fourth dragon was pushed into a huge whirlpool by the rapids. The fifth dragon jumped up and flew down with the sixth dragon to form an interactive group. Most of the seventh dragon was submerged by huge waves, which turned it into a storm. The eighth dragon jumped into the cloud again. Kowloon rested on a rock. The dynamics of Kowloon are different, vivid, grotesque and imaginative. In the composition of the picture, the reality and the reality set each other off. Some of them are very relaxed and imposing.
Map of Chen Rong Kowloon in Boston Museum of Art
The Central Axis of Mo Long Map collected by Guangdong Provincial Museum is Chen Rong's masterpiece. This is a silk ink pen with a length of 20 1.5 cm and a width of 130.5 cm. The inscription on the lower right reads: "Help the Han River and relax it". If you do something, you will succeed. Kick your feet and swim empty. Everything you've done. "
Chen Rong's Mo Long is in the Guangdong Provincial Museum.
"Molong Tu" was appraised as an original by experts of cultural relics such as Qigong and Su. The whole picture is made of two pieces of silk. Silk is of good quality and color. This is a work of art with good quality, fine workmanship and large volume. It has great academic value. This is the most valuable ancient painting in Guangdong Museum. It is listed as a national first-class protected cultural relic and is not displayed to the public at ordinary times.
The Tokyo National Museum has a picture of Chen Rong's Five Dragons, which is 2 1.7cm long and 146.6cm long. This is a paper ink pen.
Chen Rong's "Five Dragons" are in Tokyo National Museum.
There are not many works by Chen Rong in the mainland auction market, most of which are marked with Chen Rong, and few can be marked as original works. The following are two photos of Chen Rong "Dragon" auctioned in recent years.
20 10 in July, China Guo Mao yishengjia auction company auctioned a painting, vertical shaft and ink-and-wash paper copy of Chen Rong's Dragon Dance at a price of1568,000 yuan. In addition to a large number of printed copies, there is Zhang Daqian's postscript: "Once upon a time, there was a huge painting in the Song Dynasty, which was full of ink and color, which made people respect. Looking at this painting today, we can see that its brushwork is very high and great, and its expression is different. It's really unique. In the late summer, the imperial concubine, the layman Zhang Cong, printed Daqian.
Chen Rong's "Dragon Dance"
20 15 On the spring auction of Bao Ruiying in Beijing, a roll of "Playing Dragon Ball" sold for 34.5 million yuan without a painter's seal. This work is an ink paper with a vertical length of 237.5 cm and a horizontal length of 32.5 cm. Appraiser Zhang Congyu has many descriptions and inscriptions: "Sun Junbo Yuan was thirty years old and began on December 27th. Sun Junbo Garden takes Zhu Long as its theme. The style of pen and ink is the same as the Kowloon map that Chen Suoweng saw a year ago. Is it really the same as Weng Xu's? How difficult it is in all aspects today. In a corner of Shanghai, it is much more difficult than in Taoyuan. On New Year's Eve, I sat in a wooden inkstone, revisiting my old collection and recalling the past 14 years. I don't think I have ever been so happy. The book The Father of Emerald was written by Xing Wu Zhang Heng, and it took several years to draw a scroll painting. Later, it was collected by the American Tibetan expert Wang. He painted in the painting and printed nearly 10 different identification seals on the front and back of the painting to show his love.
Zhang Congyu approved Chen Rong's "Playing Dragon Ball" hand scroll.
Appreciation: Experts are not poor, and experts are not rich. What is "learning" to identify, understand, understand, etc. What is "appreciating" hobbies, obsessions, etc. If you just like collecting, it is a kind of enjoyment; If you only like collecting, it's foolish. Collection brings us a kind of happiness, and the wealth it brings us is a sustenance.