Six pine laths with the poem "Drinking Alone under the Moon" by the Tang poet Li Bai (701-762). Inscription, dated 1987, signed Gu Gan and sealed Gu Gan. (6) "Among the blossoms waits a jug of wine. I pour myself a drink, no loved one near. Raisin
Description Six pine laths with the poem "Drinking Alone under the Moon" by the Tang poet Li Bai (701-762). Inscription, dated 1987, signed Gu Gan and sealed Gu Gan. (6) "Among the blossoms waits a jug of wine. I pour myself a drink, no loved one near. Raising my cup, I invite the bright moon and turn to my shadow. We are now three. But the moon does not know much about drinking, and my shadow just follows my body. (And what I do, the shadow does blindly) For a time moon and shadow will be my companions, a passing joy that should last through the spring. I sing and the moon just sways back and forth, I dance and my shadow whips around like mad. While lucid still, we have such fun together! But stumbling drunk, each staggers off alone. Bound forever, relentless we roam: reunited at last on the distant river of stars."
Dimensions 240 x 9,55 cm each lath
Artist or Maker Gu Gan . 1987
Provenance Private collection Dr. Ilse Lommel (1923-2017), North-Rhine-Westphalia, and thence in the family by descent
Notes VAT: Margin scheme
