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Waterfall in a High Mountain

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  • Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Shelagh Vainker

    Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    The only recorded artist named Gu Tao was a pupil of the monk painter Dao Cun, who was in turn a follower of Zha Shibiao (q.v.) and by whom a landscape album dated 1709 survives in Japan. However, the name is almost certainly a pseudonym, and may have been used by a later painter. The figure in this painting compares closely with those in the landscapes of Fu Baoshi; given Fu's veneration of the Qing Individualist painter Shi Tao (Dao Ji), and the fact that his assumed name Baoshi means 'embracing Shi (Tao)', the possibility that this is a work by Fu Baoshi should not be ruled out. The seal of Ni Tian (1855-1919) (q.v.) remains anomalous.

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