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Late Spring Return

Name: Late Spring Return
Brand: Lu Yanshao
SKU: lu-yanshao-late-spring-return
Price: 799 USD
Availability: InStock

by Lu Yanshao · Jiading, Shanghai

$799

$999

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MaterialInk on xuan paper, mounted on silkscroll

Dimensions100 x 50 cm

Year1988

EditionUnique work

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The Story

This 1988 masterpiece masterly uses Lu Yanshao’s signature “cloud-water” techniques—layered brushwork, bold ink washes, and strategic negative space—to evoke depth and dynamism.This 1988 masterpiece masterly uses Lu Yanshao’s signature “cloud-water” techniques—layered brushwork, bold ink washes, and strategic negative space—to evoke depth and dynamism. Lu Yanshao was a master of modern Chinese landscape painting, celebrated for his unique brushstrokes and magnificent artistic style. The painting employs Lu Yanshao’s highly distinctive cloud-and-water brushwork, with layered ink washes, flexible linework and rhythmic texture strokes that create misty, flowing spatial depth.Its greatest charm lies in the elegant harmony between leisurely figures and poetic landscape, perfectly expressing the traditional Chinese literati ideal of ease, freedom and spiritual peace. This piece is from a private collection in Hong Kong and comes with a collection certificate stamped by a Hong Kong auction house.

Craft & Process

The work inherits the authentic craftsmanship of traditional Chinese landscape painting, using refined ink washes, flexible brush lines and layered texturing to present a peaceful and elegant picture.It embodies the classic oriental aesthetic of harmony between man and nature, conveying the literati’s pursuit of leisure, seclusion and spiritual freedom in a poetic and tranquil atmosphere.

About the Artist

Lu Yanshao

Jiading, Shanghai

Lu Yanshao (1909-1993) was a preeminent modern Chinese landscape painter, celebrated for his dynamic depictions of clouds, water, and majestic gorges.

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