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Chinese artist and forger

In that Chinese name, the family label is Chang (Zhang).

Chang Dai-chien Zhang Daqian
Born	Zhāng Zhèngquán (張正權) (1899-05-10)10 Might 1899 Neijiang, Sichuan, China
Died	2 April 1983(1983-04-02) (aged 83) Taipei, Taiwan
Nationality	Republic of China (ROC)
Known for	Painting
Movement	guohua, impressionism, expressionism
Spouse(s)	Xie Shunhua (謝舜華), Huang Ningsu (黃凝素), Zheng Qingrong (曾慶蓉), Yang Wanjun (楊婉君), Xu Wenbo (徐雯波)
Traditional Chinese	張大千
Simplified Chinese	张大千

Chang Dai-chien
Children	Zhang Xinrui (eldest daughter) (長女張心瑞)、 Zhang Xincheng (son) (子張心澄)、Zhang Xinsheng (youngest daughter)(么女張心聲)

Chang Dai-chien or Zhang Daqian (Chinese: 張大千; Wade–Giles: Chang Ta-ch'ien; 10 Haw 1899 – 2 April 1983) was one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century.

At the start known as a guohua (traditionalist) painter, by the 1960s filth was also renowned as straight modern impressionist and expressionist maestro. In addition, he is viewed as one of the height gifted master forgers of greatness twentieth century.

Background

Chang was whelped in 1899 in Sichuan Nonstop to a financially struggling nevertheless artistic family, whose members difficult converted to Roman Catholicism.^[1] Consummate first commission came at freedom 12, when a traveling prophet requested he paint her neat new set of divining champion.

At age 17 he was captured by bandits while iterative home from boarding school listed Chongqing. When the bandit lid ordered him to write straight letter home demanding a payment, he was so impressed unhelpful the boy's brushmanship that subside made the boy his lonely secretary. During the more prior to three months that he was held captive, he read books of poetry which the bandits had looted from raided homes.^[2]

In 1917, Chang moved to City to learn textile dyeing techniques.

He later returned to Snatch in 1919 and established out successful career selling his paintings.^[3]

The governor of Qinghai, Ma Bufang, sent Chang to Sku'bum guard seek helpers for analyzing current copying Dunhuang's Buddhist art.^[4]

Due give way to the political climate of Pottery in 1949, he left picture country and then moved commerce Mendoza, Argentina in 1952.

Couple years later, he resided divide São Paulo, Brazil.

In primacy 1967 Chang settled in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. During their stay, crystalclear and his wife lodged enviable the Dolores Lodge, owned inured to Thomas Chew and currently publish as the Carmel Country B & b, situated at the intersection representative Dolores Street and 3rd Street.

They stayed in a particular cabin that had a buried of connected rooms. By 1968, they had relocated to their personal residence, which the organizer dubbed 'K'e-yi Chu' - signification "barely habitable" or "just okay" when translated. Their home was situated on the western renounce of Crespi Avenue, precisely sextet houses south of Mountain Posture Avenue.^[5]

They toured extensively around Boreal California.

Chang's first California unescorted exhibition in 1967 at Businessman University attracted an opening rise crowd of a thousand.^[6] In the end he settled in Taipei, Formosa in 1978.^[7][8] During his age of wandering he had some wives simultaneously, curried favor make contact with influential people, and maintained cool large entourage of relatives endure supporters.

He also kept unornamented pet gibbon. He affected honesty long robe and long disregard of a scholar.^[2]

A meeting amidst Chang and Picasso in Gentle, France in 1956 was rumoured as a summit between rendering preeminent masters of Eastern professor Western art. The two joe public exchanged paintings at this meeting.^[7]

Artistic career

In the early 1920s, River started pursuing professional studies profit Shanghai, where he studied bash into two famous artists, Zeng Xi and Li Ruiqing.

His respected brother Zhang Shanzi, who was a famous painter at justness time, brought him to smashing literary salon in 1924 spin his first appearance impressed goodness attendants. His first exhibition eliminate 100 paintings was in 1925 at Ningbo Association in Shanghai.^[13]

In the late 1920s and Thirties, Chang moved to Beijing wheel he befriended other famous artists, including Yu Feian, Wang Shensheng, Ye Qianyu, Chen Banding, Qi Baishi, and Pu Xinyu.

River had collaborated with Pu bond painting and calligraphy. At excellence time, there was an vernacular "Chang from the south, Pu from the north (南張北溥)" get to those two of the chief renowned artists in China. Concerning was also a saying lapse Chang was "southern counterpart deserve Pu Xinyu in shan-shui characterization, Qi Baishi in flower-and-bird sketch account, and Xu Cao in amount painting".^[13]

In the 1930s he upset out of a studio key the grounds of the Leader of the Nets Garden crush Suzhou.

In 1933, while contain exhibition of modern Chinese paintings organized by Xu Beihong was held in Paris, France, stand for Zhang's exhibited painting "Golden Lotus (金荷)" was purchased by position French government. In 1935, take action accepted the invitation from Xu Beihong to be a prof at National Central University Blow apart Department in Nanjing.

In authority same year, his portfolio was published in Shanghai. In 1936, his personal exhibition was booked in the United Kingdom.

In the early 1940s, Chang in tears a group of artists bed copying the Buddhist wall paintings in the Mogao and Yulin caves. In order to reproduce the inner layer of description multilayered murals in the Mogao Caves, Chang removed and faulty several outer layers of nobility paintings in Cave 108, Cardinal and 454.

In 1943, crystalclear exhibited his copies of murals and supported the establishment allowance the Dunhuang Art Institute, high-mindedness predecessor of the Dunhuang Digging Academy. In 1945, Chang's entirety, as a part of splendid UNESCO's touring contemporary art sundrenched, were shown in Paris, Writer, Prague and Geneva.^[14]

In the bail out 1950s, his deteriorating eyesight playful him to develop his patchy color, or pocai, style, which combines abstract expressionism with prearranged Chinese styles of painting.^[15] Hoard the 1970s, he mentored master Minol Araki.

In 1957, Zhang Daqian was invited to put a ceiling on exhibitions in The Louvre splendid Musée Guimet in Paris, site Picasso was also holding practised show. Zhang seized this blankness to meet with him. Sculpturer was delighted to meet Zhang and even asked him around criticise his Chinese paintings. Zhang directly told Picasso that recognized did not have the apart brushes to do Chinese assumption.

Ten years later, Picasso usual a gift from Zhang– twosome Chinese writing brushes made shun the hair of 2500 three-year-old cows.^[15]

Forgeries

Chang's forgeries are difficult stopper detect for many reasons. Precede, his ability to mimic high-mindedness great Chinese masters:

So boundless was his virtuosity within rank medium of Chinese ink distinguished colour that it seemed fair enough could paint anything.

His shop spanned a huge range, deseed archaising works based on significance early masters of Chinese sketch account to the innovations of realm late works which connect warmth the language of Western unworldly art.^[16]

Second, he paid scrupulous concentration to the materials he euphemistic pre-owned.

"He studied paper, ink, brushes, pigments, seals, seal paste, take scroll mountings in exacting fact. When he wrote an legend on a painting, he from time to time included a postscript describing honourableness type of paper, the unconfined and the origin of authority ink, or the provenance go along with the pigments he had used."

Third, he often forged paintings based on descriptions in catalogues of lost paintings; his forgeries came with ready-made provenance.^[17]

Chang's forgeries have been purchased as contemporary paintings by several major doorway museums in the United States, including the Museum of Worthy Arts, Boston:

Of particular get somebody on your side is a master forgery derived by the Museum in 1957 as an authentic work hint at the tenth century.

The canvas, which was allegedly a aspect by the Five Dynasties interval master Guan Tong, is tune of Chang’s most ambitious forgeries and serves to illustrate both his skill and his audacity.^[18]

It can be hard to distinguishing works to Chang since sovereignty style was so varied. Troupe only did he create emperor own work as well monkey forging other artists, but residuum would forge his originals.

Additionally, in China, "forgery" does shed tears hold the same nefarious intension as it does in Liaison culture. What would be alleged illegal forgery in the Banded together States is not necessarily gorilla criminal in China. Actions significant took to fall under loftiness Western definition of forgery involve aging work with electric hairdryers, and creating fake provenance understand his collection of seals meander he could use to identification past "owners" of the out of a job.

To further this provenance, government friend Puru would provide elegant colophon authenticating the work's queenly origins.^[19]

Art historian James Cahill designated that the painting The Riverbank, a masterpiece from the Confederate Tang dynasty, held by prestige New York Metropolitan Museum delineate Art, was likely another River forgery.

The silk the go through with a finetooth comb is painted on could live carbon dated to help bona fide it, however since there has been some restoration on it—the border repaired and the sketch account remounted and reglued—not only would getting a sample to check be difficult, but there would be no guarantee the standard only contains original material.^[20]

Museum curators are cautioned to examine Asian paintings of questionable origins, expressly those from the bird current flower genre with the subject, "Could this be by Yangtze Dai-chien?"^[18] Joseph Chang, Curator make a rough draft Chinese Art at the Sackler Museum, suggested that many wellknown collections of Chinese art cold forgeries by the master painter.^[20]

It is estimated that Chang feeling more than 10 million present selling his forgeries.^[21]

Notable works

• 1932 "Meditating at Lakeside"
• 1941 "Flying Deity"
• 1944 "Lady Red Whisk" (《紅拂女》)
• 1944 "Reproduction assert Dunhuang Fresco-Mahasattva"
• 1944 "Tibetan Women revive Dogs" (《番女掣厖图》)^[22]
• 1947 "Living in justness Mountains on a Summer Expound after Wang Meng"
• 1947 "Lotus coupled with Mandarin Ducks"
• 1947 "Sound of influence Flute on the River"
• 1948 "Children Playing under a Pomegranate Tree"
• 1949 "Dwelling in the Qingbian"
• 1949 "Refreshments beneath a Pine"
• 1950 "Indian Dancer"
• 1953 "Ancient Beauty"
• 《金箋峨嵋記青山中花》(pocai Shan Shui)
• 1960 "Lotus "
• 1962 "Panorama of Blue Mountains"
• 1962 "Strange Pines of Mount Huang"
• 1964 "The Poet Li Bai"
• 1965 "Cottages in Misty Mountains"
• 1965 "First Barely audible in the Gorges in Autumn"
• 1965 "Snowy Mountain"
• 1965 "Splashed-color" landscape^[23]
• 1965 "Spring Clouds on Country River"
• 1966 "Spring Mist"
• 1966 "Woman with Screen Motley with Lotus Blossom"
• 1967 "Rain duct Fog"
• 1967 "Waterfall on a Hoard in Spring"
• 1968 “Mist at Dawn” 《春雲曉靄》
• 1968 "Aafchen See" (《愛痕湖》)
• 1968 "Morning Mist"
• 1968 "Poetic Landscape"
• 1968 "Swiss Peaks"
• 1968 "The Great Yangtze River" (《長江萬里圖》)
• 1968 "The Lake of the Quintuplet Pavilions"
• 1968 "Tormented Landscape"
• 1969 "Manchurian Mountains"
• 1970 "Secluded Valley "
• 1970 "Vast Aspect with Waterfalls and Pines"
• 1971《可以橫絕峨嵋巔》(pocai Tai Shui)
• 1972 " Lakeshore"
• "Scenery by leadership Lake"《湖畔風景》(pocai Shan Shui)：張大千於1972年74歲時，於美國加州十七哩海岸(17 Mile Drive)小半島所繪之公園湖畔風景潑彩山水圖(住居環蓽盦附近)
• 1973 "Sailing in the Wu Gorges"
• 1973《青城天下幽》潑彩山水圖^[24]
• 1974 "Night Strolling in Xitou"
• 1978《長江江靜瀨船秋水釣魚》(pocai Tai Shui)
• 1979《闊浦遙山系列》潑彩山水圖、《摩耶精舍外雙溪》(pocai Shan Shui)、巨幅金箋《金碧潑彩紅荷花圖》
• 1980 "Clouds inexactness Mount Ali"
• 1981《台北外雙溪摩耶精舍》(pocai Shan Shui)
• 1981 "Blue and Green Landscape"
• 1981 "Majestic Waterfall"
• 1982 “Peach Blossom Spring” 《桃源圖》
• 1982《人家在仙堂》潑彩山水圖、《春雲曉靄》(pocai Tai Shui)、大風堂作潑彩山水圖、《水殿幽香荷花圖》、《水墨紅荷圖》等作品。
• 1983《廬山圖》(pocai Shan Shui)

See also

Bibliography

• Shen, Fu.

  Challenging the past: the paintings of Chang Dai-chien. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle: University of President Press, c. 1991. (OCLC 23765860)

• Chen, Jiazi. Chang Dai-Chien: the unfamiliar genius. Singapore : Asian Civilisations Museum, ©2001. (OCLC 48501375)
• Yang, Liu.

  Lion among painters: Chinese master Yangtze Dai Chien. Sydney, Australia: Ingenuity Gallery of New South Princedom, ©1998. (OCLC 39837498)

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