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Subject:Book of woodblock/paintings? landscapes & verse red seal signatures
Posted By: Vicky Mon, Jan 04, 2021 IP: 2a02:c7d:da5e:300:24

This is a bound unfolding long scroll type black and white landscape with verse in the centre. I am hoping to find out who is the artist? What is the translation of the verse? Are the landscapes woodblock prints or paintings? Any information would be appreciated. Thank you







Subject:Re: Book of woodblock/paintings? landscapes & verse red seal signatures
Posted By: I.Nagy Wed, Jan 06, 2021

Poem in my rough translation,

斧劈奇峯虹彩天
繁花装点石林囗
満江作夜清流臨
一抹體暉潤望達
桂林山水甲天下
陽朔山水甲桂林
群峯倒映山浮水
無水無山不入神
石春朝

Axle spltted strange peaks, rainbow colors the sky
Shilin 囗 is decorated with rich flowers,
Last night the full river was cleared,
A touch of glossy light gazes into the distance,
Guilin has the finest mountains and rivers under heaven,
Yangshuo's landscape is the best in Guilin,
The peaks reflect the mountains in the floating water,
No water, no mountains, I come under its spell

Signature,
石春朝 - Shi Chunchao
Seal,
安東  - Andong - Pseudonym

Inscription on the cover,
中國桂林山水画冊 - China, Guilin Landscape Picture Album

The outfit of the cover suggests that this print
album was published by the Beijing publisher Rong Bao Zhai in the late 1950s.

For the time being I couldn't fid artist under this name.

With regards,
I.Nagy

Subject:Re: Book of woodblock/paintings? landscapes & verse red seal signatures
Posted By: Vicky Sun, Jan 10, 2021

Thank you so much Nagy. Your translation of the poem reads beautifully. The pictures are really nice but I wouldn't know how to display it without taking it apart. I guess it is intended be something to open out on occasion, rather than permanently displayed. Thanks again.


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