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Subject:Re: 楊鑑州 Yang Jianzhou
Posted By: rat Thu, Jan 30, 2025
(fyi, the surname is romanized as Yang rather than Yan)
Seals look quite the same, though the calligraphy in the picture from the 2018 post seems more relaxed and therefore appealing, and the women in it are less crudely painted (though the women in the 2018 post have a sweetness to their facial depictions that I associate with pictures from the 1980s onward; not sure what to make of that observation). The inscription in your second picture gives the year equivalent to 1928 and mentions the first part of a month/season whose name has been crossed out as an error. Not entirely sure about the top of the third line but it relates to the painter saying that he is painting in the style of another painter who is referred to by an art name ending in 伯大山人, which doesn't ring a bell for me. the fourth line states that your artist, using his own art name, 龍泉居士, painted this picture at his Shanghai studio. Am guessing given the difference in style between these two pictures and one you found posted here from 2018 that they are from different hands employed by a workshop (named Yang Jianzhou?) that produced genre scenes like this from literature/history/legend. They were pretty common in the Republican years.
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