Five horses

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Five horses

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The northern song

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26.9 cm long 205 cm wide

Collected by private before 2 world war,

Lost after the 2 world war

The collotype is collected in the Palace Museum

The art work splits into 5 parts, the first 4 parts have the writing of Huang tingjian who lived in the northern song, and the last one has the postscript written by him. The art work also have the postscript of other artists such as Zengyu in the northern Song. There are two places have postscripts written by empire Qianlong. And have 20 seals in the art work, one of them is “Leshoutang collected”
This piece of art work is kind of duty tribute. Each part with a man and a horse presented on the picture. According the postscript of Mr Huang, these five horses are named by the shape and color, they are phoenix head horse, flower arm horse, good head red horse, white lighten night horse , flowery back horse. They are all male which are tributes of the West Region are.
The first 3 men holding horses are looked like minority and also dressed in costume of minority of the West Region. They are in different posture and different with each other. The amazing thing is they have tiny different in minds. One is weather-beaten man being timid and over cautious; one is young holding halter with big strides; one is dressed in official costume overbearing. The horses are different in the size, height, color, but they are all meek which showed they are trained before. It is natural for the horses to be such manner and posture in this kind of art about tribute. Such as the words written in the Xuanhe art book, it says “when the artist Gonglin draws the painting, he always puts the mood at first, and puts the dress and other decorative thing on the second”. He wanted to express the characteristics of the horses and people. At first, the creativity of the artist is shown on the skilled technique in line drawing. He improved the technique of Bai-hua which was popular used in Wudaozi period in Tang Dynasty into other kind of technique named line drawing. Line drawing is a drawing skill which has more plentiful expressive ability. This piece of art work is a mark of establish this kind of drawing skill. The painting is black and white, but the viewer can sense the different texture and weight of the elastic skin, soft fur, strait dress, massive cotton wadded robe from the change of the line with different hardness, thickness, gradation, length and speed.
The artist drew the art work with light ink in the foundation of line drawing. The use of light ink helped the expressive force and it made the art effect being more complete. And it also shows the aesthetics of the painter which is understated, gentle and indifferent. Since then, almost all the line drawing about people and horses are all come from Ligonglin’s technique.
五马图

    【名称】：五马图
    【类别】书画
【作者】：李公麟（宋）
【年代】：宋
【文物现藏】：二战以前藏于私家，战后失踪，珂罗版藏于故宫博物院图书馆
【简介】


纸本，白描，纵：26.9cm，横：204.5cm
本幅无作者名款，共分5段，前 4段均有北宋黄庭坚的笺记，后纸有黄氏跋语，另有北宋、南宋初的曾纡跋，言及黄庭坚题于元祐五年（1090年）。幅上两处有乾隆帝的题文，钤有清“乐寿堂鉴藏宝”等印20方。
该卷系职贡类题材，作一人一马状。
据 黄氏题跋，5马依次为凤头骢、锦膊骢、好头赤、照夜白、满川花，皆为雄马，均是西域的贡品，分属宋廷的左骐骥院和左天驷监。前3位控马者为西域少数 民族的形象和装束，姿态各异，无一雷同，妙在其精神气质亦微异，有饱经风霜、谨小慎微者；有年轻气盛、执缰阔步者；有身穿官服、气度骄横者。马的造型因品 种而异，大小、肥瘦、高低、毛色各别，但性情都温顺平和，以示已被调教驯服。大凡画贡马的题材，马的神态和步态都是如此。如《宣和画谱》卷七所云：“大抵 公麟以立意为先，布置缘饰为次”，意在生动的表现人、马的性情。画家在艺术上的独创首先体现在纯熟的白描技法上，他把盛行于唐代吴道子时代的“白画”发展 为具有丰富表现力的画种--白描，本幅就是确立这一画种的标志。虽不着彩色，仍可使观者从刚柔、粗细、浓淡、长短、快慢的线条变化中感受到富有弹性的肌 肤、松软的皮毛、笔挺的衣衫、粗厚的棉袍等各不相同的质感和量感。
画家在白描的基础上微施淡墨渲染，辅佐了线描的表现力，使艺术效果更为完善，体现了文人画注重简约、儒雅和淡泊的审美观。自此之后，几乎所有的白描人马画无不源出于李公麟的白描艺术。　

the largest painting of Qi bai shi was auctioned for 425.5million yuan in spring auction in china

the largest painting of Qi bai shi was auctioned for 425.5million yuan in spring auction in china

At 8 pm may 22, the auction named THE Night OF CHERISHed CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY was held in BEIJING by JIADE Auction Company. It is the first auction about ancient and modern calligraphy and drawing held by JIADE Auction Company at night. The turnover was more than 1 thousand million Yuan in the auction. THE HIGHT PINE AND SEAL COUPLET was the most outstanding art work in the auction. It was the largest one in the works painted by QIBAISHI. The price of this work was started from 88 million Yuan. After half an hour and 50 times continuous auctions, it was bought by an inland collector by 425.5 million Yuan. It made the new record in modern painting auction.

Mrs. GUOTONG, the president OF JIADE auction company, said that QIBAISHI is an artist who has the most wide and deep influence in Chinese modern paint history. His painting has influenced  millions of  people in modern time. And he is also honored, understood and loved by both domestic and overseas. The result of this piece of work shows that modern art works stepped on a new level in auction field. It is a record like a notable landmark. It is inevitable and desirable.

THE HIGHT PINE AND SEAL COUPLET is the largest piece in QIBAISHI's paintings and calligraphies. The art work is 266 cm long and 100 cm wide. The seal couplet is 264.5 cm long, and 65.8 cm wide, the meaning of words is peace region over the land, life longevity. This piece of work is a masterpiece of QIBAISHI. pine and eagle are the usually things in the paintings of MR QI， chinese people often use eagle to represent hero, it means powerful. And pine means long life for person.  It can be known from the inscription of the art work that this piece of work was drawn by Mr. QI in 1946 when he was 86 years old. It is the mature stage of his creation. at this stage the artist had high creative desire and painted many pieces of art works. The artist showed his good wish that the country and nation would developed in peace way and wish the humankind would have peace region over the land, life longevity' just like what he wrote in the couplet. This piece of art work came back into mainland from an American collector in 2005, it attract vast attentions of collectors at home and abroad by this shown. When the auction offered the price in 88 million Yuan, the price was added to 100 million directly by one bidder.  And then there were several competitions by the bidders in the counter and over the counter with phone. After nearly half an hour and 50 times price competition, one bidder won the competition by the price of 425.5 million. This made the modern calligraphy and drawing stepped on a new level.

On the other hand, the other piece of art work named flower-and-bird 4 screens drawn by QIBAISHI was sold in the price of 92 million Yuan. And one art of HUANGZHOU named DREEAGE FIGURE is only 26 square feet was sold for 60.375million. And the price is the highest in the artist's art works' trading.  About the ancient calligraphy and drawing, XIAO-FA-LIAN-HUA-JING wrote by empire QIANLONG was sold for 55.775 million. HUAN YANG HILL MAN HOLDING QIN AND WASHING TONG drawn by Daicang was sold for 32.775 million Yuan. The most famous facsimile copy of THE COPY OF FUCHUN MOUNTAIN DRAWN BY HANGZIJIU was sold for 7.475 million Yuan.