Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1555 Brothers "Yellow Mountain Tour"

After everyone sat down again, Mao Junsong said: "Actually, we have admired Mr. Zhou for a long time. He has made many moves in the international market at a young age. Recently, he went to an island country and won the Fujita family's six-hand scroll. It was really a big deal. !”

Zhou Zhi said: "That's because I happened to be inspecting the island country. Thanks to Mr. Anzhai and Mr. Sakamoto, otherwise I wouldn't have had the opportunity."

"Mr. Zhou, you are so polite. I heard that Mr. Anzhai mortgaged a Yuan blue and white piece to the Fujita Museum of Art in order to endorse Mr. Zhou? I believe that the number of people in the world who can allow Mr. Anzhai to do this can be counted on one hand."

Zhou Zhi's words made everyone laugh: "That's probably because there aren't many collectors like me who are short of money among Mr. Anzhai's acquaintances."

Zhou Zhi asked: "I heard from Sister Wanqiu that you want to see me. This approach is a bit different from the norm. I don't know why?"

"This is about it..." Mao Yunsong felt like he didn't know where to start: "Actually, there are many reasons..."

"It doesn't matter, just say the same thing." Zhou Zhi said he was patient.

"I actually suggested this to Mr. Luo after I heard that Mr. Zhou was a potential buyer." Mao Junsong said, "Because I know that Mr. Zhou is a famous calligraphy and painting restoration expert in China."

"So Mr. Luo has paintings and calligraphy that need to be restored?" Zhou Zhi asked.

"That's not true." Mao Yunsong shook his head: "Mr. Luo acquired basically all paintings by famous artists after the 20th century, and they are in very good condition."

"Mr. Zhou, I don't know if you know that there is a set of "Huangshan Tour" in Mr. Luo's collection?"

"Is it Zhang Daqian's work?" Zhou Zhi said: "Zhang Daqian visited Huangshan three times in 1928, 1931, and 1937, and selected twelve scenic spots to draw pictures. The album page is not large. , each page is only fifteen by thirty-seven centimeters."

"However, three trips to Huangshan Mountain had a great influence on Zhang Daqian's artistic creation, especially landscapes, so this set of albums is of great research value."

"When Mr. Luo purchased this set of albums from Guardian, everyone thought so. This was also the suggestion we gave Mr. Luo at the time." Mao Yunsong said: "However, now there is a new statement, Taiwan Island Researchers believe that these albums are Mr. Daqian’s drafts rather than elaborate creations, and the format is too small, so they should not be representative works of Mr. Daqian’s mature painting style.”

"But my research on Mr. Daqian is not deep enough." Zhou Zhi frowned slightly: "You can't tell the difference, so maybe I can't do anything?"

"When Mr. Zhou and Mr. Xu restored the works of the former president of Samsung, his exquisite identification of the paper used for calligraphy and painting was amazing." Mao Junsong said: "Later, we studied Mr. Zhou's restoration of the Forbidden City, especially his restoration of Shu. When big museums restore paintings and calligraphy, they are also very strict about the paper used for restoration, right? "

"Now we have to add the use of silk." Lin Wanqiu added with a smile. Obviously, she provided most of this information to Mao Yunsong.

"There is an elder in the family who is an expert in Yangpai restoration, and he has been exposed to this aspect since he was a child." Zhou Zhi had to admit: "Later, I also received teachings from several great masters in the capital, and I have some experience."

Mao Junsong breathed a sigh of relief: "So we would like to ask Mr. Zhou to conduct an appraisal of the paper used in the album "Huangshan Tour"."

"Mr. Daqian is very particular about the paper used for calligraphy and painting." Zhou Zhi said: "Because he disliked all kinds of paper, he specially developed bamboo paper in Jiajiang, Sichuan. The local production process is still preserved, and the paper factory calls it "Da Qian Paper" is ordered by Jiazhou Painting School every year. "But even if I identify that the paper used in "Huangshan Tour" is relatively expensive at that time, does that mean anything?" Zhou Zhi said doubtfully: "With Mr. Daqian's ability, which paper mill he wants to use, the paper mill has to send it to him? If he asks for a piece of calligraphy back, it will be a living advertisement!"

"But what if Mr. Daqian used Song Dynasty paper?" Mao Yunsong smiled confidently: "If "Travel to Huangshan Mountain" itself was painted on Song Dynasty paper, then the conclusion of the Taiwanese researcher that the album pages are not high-quality is not true. Can it be overturned?"

"Song paper? Is it an exaggeration?" Zhou Zhi felt a little incredible: "Even in those days, Song paper was not so easy to find, otherwise the internal works of the past dynasties would not have worked hard to imitate Song paper. Where did Mr. Daqian come from? Got it?”

"I need to ask Mr. Zhou to identify these." Mao Junsong said: "I just found clues from the letters between Mr. Daqian and his brother Zhang Shanzi. He mentioned that he got some Song paper and finally could write what he likes. Huangshan, the period of the letters is not far from the period when these paintings were published."

"This batch of paintings itself is very sophisticated," Mao Yunsong said. "The Taiwanese researchers are unreasonable. I think since Mr. Daqian mentioned using Song Dynasty paper to paint the Huangshan scenery, the size of this batch of album pages coincides with it. If it can be proved Can my conjecture be counted as evidence?”

"But what if it is identified?" Zhou Zhi asked.

"If it's not Song Dynasty paper, then we can only explain it from the aspects of brushwork, painting skills, age, etc." Mao Junsong said: "It was just my guess and it will not be announced to the public."

"That's more or less the same." Zhou Zhi nodded: "Speaking of evidence, it seems that I really have something that can be used as evidence..."

"Oh?" Mao Yunsong didn't expect Zhou Zhi to say this, and was very surprised: "Is it about "Huangshan Tour"?"

"Yes." Zhou Zhi nodded: "I have a scroll by Zhang Shanzi, also called "Travel to Huangshan Mountain", with twelve pages. It is exactly the same as Mr. Luo's collection of Mr. Daqian's album, but the shape is that of a picture scroll. "

"It was the two gentlemen who traveled hand in hand during our second trip to Huangshan!" Mao Junsong was a little excited: "Has Mr. Zhou studied the paper used in Mr. Shanzi's paintings?"

"Mr. Shanzi used ordinary bamboo paper." Zhou Zhi said: "But the scroll is very long. The first part has Wu Jingheng's 'Huangshan Panorama' seal script, and the second part has Xu Chengyao, Liang Hongzhi, Huang Binhong, Wu Hufan, Xu Shiying, Ye Poems by famous writers such as Gong Chuo and Fu Zengxiang."

The people who wrote the poems were all famous people at that time. If Zhang Shanzi could use them to write poems about these characters, the quality of the paintings would naturally be extraordinary.

"It seems that this is also the proud work of Mr. Shanzi." Mao Junsong asked: "Where did Mr. Zhou get this set of album pages?"

"I found it from Rongbaozhai when I was searching for animal themes." Zhou Zhi said: "I originally went to restore Yi Yuanji's "Two Monkeys with Columbine Leaves". I saw that the roe apes on it were really cute, so I asked Mr. Yuan to recommend it to me. As a painter with similar painting techniques, Mr. Yuan recommended Mr. Shanzi, saying that Mr. Daqian’s deer ape was learned from his brother.”

"That time I found a lot of animals painted by famous artists, including a painting of "Fengqian Fuhu" by Mr. Yoshiko and a "Tall Tree Listening to the Stream" by Mr. Daqian."

"However, I did not receive Mr. Shanzi's picture of the deer. To make up for my regret, I saw that his album "Yellow Mountain Tour" was also quite sophisticated, so I also accepted it."

(End of this chapter)