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Subject:identify artist of painting on paper backed with silk
Posted By: manuD Mon, Aug 26, 2019 IP: 2a01:e34:edc9:7c50:3

Could somebody help me translate what is written on this painting?
I believe the text reads
髙秋圖
and
厶亥夏未劉琴畫
but cant tell if the artist's name is just 劉琴 (Liu Qin?) or more characters?





Subject:Re: identify artist of painting on paper backed with silk
Posted By: I.Nagy Mon, Aug 26, 2019

高秋圖 - Picture of High Autumn
乙亥夏末劉琴畫 - Year of Wood-Pig (1995) at the End of Summer painted by Liú Qín
Seal reads,
劉琴 - Liú Qín

Liú Qín 劉琴
Paintress, born in 1966 in Wuhan. Studied traditional Chinese landscape painting. She paints delicate freehand landscapes, especially fans.

With regars,
I.Nagy

Subject:Re: identify artist of painting on paper backed with silk
Posted By: rat Mon, Aug 26, 2019

Everything is accurate except the date, which should be 乙亥夏末, end of summer, 1935(?)

There seem to be one or two contemporary painters by this name, but I am leaning toward 1935.

"Picture of Autumn in the Mountains, painted by Liu Qin, end of summer 1935(?)"

Subject:Re: identify artist of painting on paper backed with silk
Posted By: Bill H Wed, Aug 28, 2019

Other than Liu Qin (劉琴, DOB 1966) and the Song dynasty Liu Qin with different 'Qin' character, the other relevant Liu Qin results I got from Google consisted of a Liu Qin (劉琴) who was an apparently fictional artist character depicted in excerpts from a contemporary novel being presented online. You reckon any of this might have been what you saw, rat?

Cheers,

Bill H.

Subject:Re: identify artist of painting on paper backed with silk
Posted By: Bill H Mon, Aug 26, 2019

What I take to be the painting's three-character title appears to read 'Gao Qiu Hua' (高秋圖), which I believe translates as 'Painting of Autumn up High'.

Since Gao is a surname, I doublechecked the possibilities. However, unless I blinked, Google didn't turn up any famous painters with a name Gao Qiu with the same characters, although there was one named Gao Qiu in the Song Dynasty with a different 'Qiu' character.

The second, longer line of the inscription reads 'Painted by Liu Qin in the late summer of the Yihai year' (Yi hai xia mo liu qin hua - 乙亥夏末劉琴畫). I believe Liu Qin to be a contemporary Mainland Chinese woman who paints in in a similar style to what is shown in this circular painting. If I'm correct, then the yihai year in which this painting was done was 1995. The red seal also appears to read from right to left as 'Liu Qin'.

Below is some biographic information on Liu Qin and a link to the website where I found it. If you Google the Chinese characters 刘琴 画家 (Liu qin Hua jia), you'll also get other Chinese websites showing examples of this talented artist's works.

https://shop.artron.net/6704/g_shownews6704_16251.html

刘琴,女,1966年生于湖北武汉,1990年毕业于湖北工业大学美术系、工业造型专业。91年就职于武汉管道煤气公司宣传科美术组。94年就职于深圳天地美术公司设计部,96年就职于汉企利澳实业有限公司设计部,任产品设计师。99年在美企伟望贸易有限公司设计部任主管高级设计师。

刘琴自幼喜爱绘画美术,82年起,先后在硚口区文化馆、徐家棚中学美术班中国书画院学习绘画艺术,尤其喜爱中国画。99年后,在湖北多位著名画家的指导下,系统研究,学习传统中国山水画,逐渐形成清丽、工整、细腻的小写意山水风格,尤擅扇面画创作。

Liu Qin, female, was born in 1966 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and graduated from Hubei University of Technology in 1990 with a major in fine arts and industrial modeling. In 1991, she went to work in the propaganda section of Wuhan Pipeline Gas Company; 1994 in Shenzhen Tiandi Art Company Design Department; 1996 in the Design Department of Han Qili Industrial Co., Ltd., Macao, as a product designer; and 1999 in the American(?) Weiwang Trading Co., Ltd. as a senior member of the design department.

Liu Qin has loved painting art since childhood, and since 1982, she has studied painting art in the Chinese Academy of Painting in the Cultural Museum of Lukou District and Xujiashan Middle School, especially Chinese painting. Later, after 1999, under the guidance of many famous painters in Hubei, and systematic research while learning traditional Chinese landscape painting, she gradually formed a clear, comprehensive, meticulous freehand landscape style, especially suited to the creation of fan paintings.

Best regards,

Bill H.

Subject:Re: identify artist of painting on paper backed with silk
Posted By: manuD Wed, Aug 28, 2019

thank you for this valuable information. I was about to buy the print on internet, but it seems that somebody beat me to it :(

Subject:Re: identify artist of painting on paper backed with silk
Posted By: rat Thu, Aug 29, 2019

is ok, the brushwork could be a lot better and the composition is a bit confused

Subject:Re: identify artist of painting on paper backed with silk
Posted By: manuD Sun, Sep 08, 2019

so it wasnt a big loss. thank you, rat.


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