ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983)
Seven-character Poems in Regular Script - Shimen Stele For Wen Zhenzhai and Others
Unmounted scroll, ink on paper
66.8 x 76 cm. (26 ¹⁄₄ x 29 ⁷⁄₈ in.)
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dedicated to Xinjia

NOTE: Zhang Daqian remarks in the inscription that the original calligraphy, including poems written for his friend Wen Zhenzhai, was done over two decades ago in the Garden of Eight Virtue in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil. It remained in the artist's collection until 1981, when he further inscribed the work to dedicate it to Zhang Xinjia 'for safekeeping', possibly when the uncle and niece worked on the artist's papers together in Taiwan. An important manuscript that Zhang Daqian kept for twenty years, it is a rare document in the artist's practice.