Asianart.com | Associations | Articles | Exhibitions | Galleries

hi everyone. i found this piece recently and in truth, i'm still not sure what i think of it. but, i kept thinking, it might be of some value, so i went ahead and bought it. it wasn't too expensive. anyway, i'm hoping someone out there can help me decipher the caligraphy characters. it's larger and painted on an old piece of board. any help would be greatly appreciated...thanks

Dear Jim,

I'm sorry to tell you that this painting is probably not going to make your fortune.

The calligraphy has been written by someone with no knowledge of calligraphy at all. The characters are awkward, badly proportioned badly spaced, written with no experience in using the brush or knowing the characters. Could be just some characters copied from a book.

I can't make sense of them. The first three are 塞爾勞, then the next could be a badly composed 場, or a very awkward 易土, and finally 梅。

Sorry to be the one to tell you.

Rat may have more to say.

this is modern and painted and inscribed by a westerner going for a Chinese style. The characters are not written by a Chinese person and are a transliteration of the artist's name into traditional characters that have no obvioius English reading to me 赛爾榮易士梅

oh well, i'm chuckling as i write this. it's not like i was banking on this being something incredible. it's just the kind of thing you run into and to an untrained eye it looks like it could be something. i guess that's five bucks i'll never see again.

Asianart.com | Associations | Articles | Exhibitions | Galleries |