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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MICHAEL GALLIS
Ren Yi (1840-1895)
Flower and Birds, 1879Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, inscribed by the artist and dated jimao, and signed Bonian with an artist's seal Ren Yi yin. 14 3/4 x 14 1/4in (37.4 x 36.1cm)
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任頤 花鳥 設色紙本 立軸 一八七九年作PROVENANCEShanghai International Commodity Auction Co., Ltd., July 2003PUBLISHEDGallis, Michael and Ma Xinle, Maike Gailesi Zhongguo hua shoucang: yige Xifang xuezhe de Zhonghua wenhua zhilu?, Tianjin Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 2019, p.127來源上海國際商品拍賣有限公司，2003年7月出版馬欣樂主編，《邁克·蓋勒斯中國畫收藏：一個西方學者的中華文化之旅》，天津人民美術出版社，2019年，頁127Painted in his 30s, Flower and Dove (lot 202) and Flower and Birds (lot 201) demonstrate the range of Ren Yi's artistic abilities. The earlier work, Flower and Dove, is painted in a detailed, slow, and relatively realistic gongbi manner. While the rock on which the dove stands is abstracted, Ren Yi, who was also known as Ren Bonian, paid great attention to describing detailed blossoms that appear light and delicate, branches with a strong sense of three-dimensionality and an alert and well defined bird. In contrast, the two birds in lot 201 were painted rapidly with just a few suggestive brushstrokes that emphasize the emotional impact. The branches, leaves and berries, all rendered without outlines, similarly were painted in the abbreviated and expressive xieyi manner. C.C. Wang remarked to Michael Gallis that he found this expressive painting by Ren Yi especially fine and creative.
