As soon as the painting was opened, everyone saw that it was a color painting on silk.
The so-called coloring is Chinese painting that uses color, which is used to distinguish ink and wash. To put it simply, Chinese paintings with color are ink and wash, while those without color are ink and wash.
Many people think that traditional Chinese painting is just ink painting without color, which is inaccurate.
In fact, it is the first color painting. As early as the pre-Qin period, Chinese painting began to use color. Paintings before the Tang Dynasty all used pigments, and the painting style was neat and precise. For example, there are many gongbi paintings.
It is no longer clear who was the first to start ink painting. But who was the first to carry it forward, it must be Wang Wei.
This is the Wang Wei you are thinking of. He pioneered the ink landscape painting school. The paintings were composed of ink and did not use any pigments. This was also the source of later literati paintings.
Wang Wei was not only good at writing poetry, but also pioneered the combination of poetry and painting. He also had extremely high musical attainments and was considered an all-rounder.
Going a step further, Tang Dynasty painters began to accept ink painting, but they did not abandon color painting. The so-called ink painting, Danqing is the two most commonly used painting pigments, red is cinnabar, and green is indigo, which shows the artist's persistence in color painting.
The painting in front of me is a light color painting. The colors are very light, but the artistic level is extremely high and breathtaking.
The content on the silk is the river bank in the south of the Yangtze River in summer. The mountains are gentle and continuous, the trees are lush and colorful, the water is vast at the beginning, the boat is looming, and the sandy slopes are covered with fine grass, and the falling streams are lingering. The background is very ethereal.
The structure of the medium painting is meticulous. First there are mountains and hills, and then the mountains transition to the plains, and from high to low. During this period, the foothills and streams twist and turn, and the distant mountains are faintly hidden among the mist and mist.
The smoke of villages and ruins is falling on the plains, and thatched huts are vaguely visible. The summer trees are dark, sparse and straight, and there are bamboo clumps interspersed with gulls, fish, and canine teeth.
Just looking at the painting style and technique, He Ren and others knew that it was definitely made by a famous artist. When they saw the title on the front page, they were dumbfounded and couldn't help but turn pale with shock.
"Authentic Picture of Waiting for Ferry at Xia Jing Pass in Dong Beiyuan" - the author is actually Dong Yuan?
"Picture of Waiting for Ferry at Xiajing Mountain Pass"? How can it be?
This is why He Ren feels that this painting should not appear here. Shouldn't the original painting be in the Liao Provincial Museum?
The treasure friends all showed shocked expressions when they saw it, and they were confused. They didn't recognize the painting at all.
"Picture of Waiting for Ferry at Xiajing Mountain Pass"? what is that?
Dong Beiyuan? Who is that?
Wei Ruixiang introduced, "Dong Yuan, also called Dong Yuan, the Yuan of vitality. Zi Shuda, was a famous painter in the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties. He served as the deputy envoy of Beiyuan, so he was also called 'Dong Beiyuan'. This person was very awesome and was regarded as He is the founder of the Southern School of landscape painting. Dong Qichang highly praised him, and the inscription at the beginning of the volume was written by Dong Qichang."
Everyone is familiar with Dong Qichang. He was a famous calligrapher and painter in the Ming Dynasty. He was an outstanding painter and calligrapher. His works are also very expensive, costing more than RMB 10 million. A few years ago, one of Dong Qichang's "Song Shan Maotang Pictures" was photographed. More than 67.8 million...
Even Dong Qichang admired the master very much, and his level was definitely not far behind.
He Ren recovered from the shock at this time. He knew that treasure friends still couldn't understand Dong Yuan intuitively. "Let me tell you this. In 2015, Dong Yuan's "Pine Spring Picture" copied by Zhang Daqian was auctioned for more than 800 yuan. Thousands. Copies copied by others can also be sold for millions."
"There are very few authentic works by Dong Yuan in existence, and almost all of them are collected by museums. For example, "Picture of Xiaoxiang" is in the Palace Museum in Beijing, "Picture of Longsu Suburban People" is in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, "Picture of Chongting in the Cold Forest" is in Kurokawa Institute of Literature, Japan, "Stream Bank Picture" is in the Metropolitan Museum of America. And "Xiajing Pass Waiting for Ferry" is in the Liao Provincial Museum..."
At this point, He Ren couldn't go on. He couldn't confirm the authenticity of the "Picture of Waiting for Ferry at Xiajing Mountain Pass".
He had already used the Treasure Appraisal Eye just now. For ancient paintings of this value, the primary Treasure Appraisal Eye was of no use at all.
The "Encyclopedia of Calligraphy and Painting" only provides knowledge, and it is impossible to directly identify authenticity. He Renzhen is in a bit of a dilemma...
The treasure friends are already in a frenzy. Although He Ren didn't finish what he said, everyone understood it.
If the one in the Liao Provincial Museum is authentic, then what is this one?
Real or fake Monkey King? Who is real? Who is fake?
If this painting is real, it means that a national treasure has appeared, and things are serious.
There is a fake in the museum's collection... Either someone has deceived it, or there is a mole in the classic, and someone inside the museum is keeping it secret.
But it seems unlikely. If it was really stolen, how could this painting appear in the hands of an ordinary Ho Yan fan?
Could it be a copy?
He Ren, Wei Ruixiang and Zhou Zhou all tended to this view, but was it too much of a copycat?
Not only the image composition, content, but also the techniques are almost exactly the same. Just look at the mountains. They mainly use hemp chamfering, as well as point chamfering. The mountains are rendered in light colors. This is the standard Dong Yuan technique.
There are more than a dozen seals and collection stamps on the painting, large and small, almost all of which are important people whose names are recognizable.
In addition to Dong Qichang's inscription at the beginning of the volume, there is also a large seal with Zhu Wen, "Treasure of the Celestial Calendar". This seal was the collection seal of Tutiemu'er, Emperor Wenzong of the Yuan Dynasty, indicating that this painting was collected by the Yuan Dynasty.
What's even more remarkable is that next to the collection seal of "Treasure of the Celestial Calendar" is "Emperor of Ancient Times", which is Qianlong's collection seal.
By the way, Qianlong liked to stamp the calligraphy and paintings of famous people too much. Any calligraphy and painting that was favored by Qianlong could not escape the fate of being stamped.
For example, Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Tie" was stamped with more than 80 collection stamps by Qianlong. The main reason is that Qianlong's collection of seals is so large that the Forbidden City still has a collection of one thousand of his seals.
That's not all! According to historical records, Qianlong had a total of more than 1,800 collection seals, stamping five a day and not carrying duplicates throughout the year.
Such a check-in maniac only stamped a collection stamp on "Xiajing Mountain Pass Waiting for Ferry", which shows how precious this painting is...
In addition to these two collection seals, there are inscriptions and postscripts by Ke Jiusi, Yu Ji, and Ya Hu at the back of the volume. Zhu Wen's seals of "Shao" and "Xing" were once collected by the Imperial Household of the Southern Song Dynasty. The seals of Xiang Yuanbian, Geng Zhaozhong, Suo'etu and Qing Neifu are also on it.
He Ren used the "Encyclopedia of Calligraphy and Painting" to recall, and it was exactly the same as the chapter on the "Picture of Waiting for Ferry at Xiajing Mountain Pass" that was once displayed in the Liao Provincial Museum, every detail...
"Teacher He?" When several people were silent, Xiao Liu suddenly asked, "Is this painting real?"
He Ren, Wei Ruixiang, and Zhou Zhou looked at each other in confusion. He Ren was really in trouble this time. He really couldn't find any loopholes. Even assuming that the painting was copied, he couldn't find the problem.
When Wei Ruixiang saw this, he understood that He Ren could not tell the truth from the fake for a while. He coughed lightly and prepared to help He Ren out. After all, He Ren was known as a treasure appraisal expert. He was just an antique shop owner. He was wrong. It doesn't matter, He Ren can still owe him a favor, so why not?
Just when Wei Ruixiang was about to speak, He Ren's eyes suddenly lit up, he took out his mobile phone and pressed it frantically...
