2080 - HUANG GONGWANG, ATTRIBUTED 1269–1354 LANDSCAPE, MING DYNASTY, 16TH–17TH CENTURY - Ink and colors on paper, depicting a landscape with trees, hills, and huts; the sense of depth is achieved through the progressive reduction in the size of the elements from bottom to top; signature and seals at the top and in the lower right and left corners. Two inscriptions are pasted outside the painting’s margins; they may have originally accompanied the work when it was mounted as a vertical scroll. The painting is mounted on a paper backing, which is in turn mounted on canvas stretched over a wooden frame.

HUANG GONGWANG, ATTRIBUTED 1269–1354 LANDSCAPE, MING DYNASTY, 16TH–17TH CENTURY - Ink and colors on paper, depicting a landscape with trees, hills, and huts; the sense of depth is achieved through the progressive reduction in the size of the elements from bottom to top; signature and seals at the top and in the lower right and left corners. Two inscriptions are pasted outside the painting’s margins; they may have originally accompanied the work when it was mounted as a vertical scroll. The painting is mounted on a paper backing, which is in turn mounted on canvas stretched over a wooden frame. 295.00 x 116.00 cm, including frame Huang Gongwang is one of the most influential artists in the entire history of Chinese landscape painting and one of the Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368), whose unmistakable style attracted numerous followers in the centuries to come. The letter accompanying the painting, written by the National Palace Museum in Taipei and dated July 14, 1979, documents the numerous seals, two of which have been identified as belonging to well-known collectors who lived in the first half of the 19th century, and one to a collector from the early Qing dynasty.