Signature Artist’s Seal: Li Kui (square, white characters) ??
Marks Artist’s Seal: Li Kui (square, white characters) ??
Inscription Artist’s Inscription (middle left):
“Landscape Painted with the Flowing Cloud Texture Method of Huanghe Shanqiao (Wang Meng, 1301-1385).” Painted in the seal script calligraphy manner of Shuming (Wang Meng). A centered brush, a rounded stroke, completed in one breath. With mastery and confidence in mind, the brush is not obstructed, like traces of cloud that are gathered and dispersed by the wind. If the wrist is stiff and the brush method obtuse, how can one imitate the manner in an unpretentious way and spontaneously achieves the outlook of it?
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Provenance Private Collection, Hong Kong; with Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong; purchase in 1988 by the Birmingham Museum of Art
