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Pu Hsin-yu (named Ru but going by his style name; sobriquet Xishan yishi) was a native of Wanping (modern Beijing) and the grandson of Prince Gong, Yixin, of the Qing imperial family. He delved into poetry, history and the Classics, and painting and calligraphy since childhood. He approached the latter by copying ancient works. Highly talented, he was able to develop an outstanding style, achieving fame equal to Chang Dai-chien, hence the expression “Chang of the South, Pu of the North.”
Pu Hsin-yu specialized in landscape painting but also excelled at such subjects as horses, gibbons, birds and flowers, and figures. The title of this work is an allusion to the peony and depicts a single flowing stalk of it in the “sketching-ideas” method using “boneless” washes. The brush movement is free and not confined to the shapes of its leaves, stems, and petals.
Mr. Liu Te-feng donated this painting to the National Palace Museum in 1981.
(20120106)
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