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The artist Wu Hufan inscribes: ‘Guo Xi (c. 1023- c. 1085) painted rocks as clouds, as Wang Yuanqi [1642-1715] once said. I have not seen Guo’s painting; I only saw Wang’s copy. Here I tentatively imitate it within the limits of Wang’s achievement. So comes the saying of “painting rocks as clouds”. I paint this for Mr Yunshi [literally “cloud-rock”]’.
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 136 on p. 159, illus. p. 159 fig. 136
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