Xu Qingping about xu beihong forty oil painting mysteries of lost for first time

Xu Qingping about xu beihong forty oil painting mysteries of lost for first time
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Recently, xu beihong in China have never seen a face painting "slave and lion" high-quality goods from abroad come to Beijing, collecting people's great attention. Xu beihong lifetime wrote more than 100 paintings, including 40 odd lost, mostly to date him. A few days ago, the son of xu beihong Xu Qingping tells the story of lost painting process.
Sorry lost painting - half a century ago
This batch of paintings lost dates back to the 1940 s. During the art creation peak of xu beihong in Singapore held many consecutive oil painting exhibition, the sale and orphans of the war of resistance against Japan donations.
Singapore, under the propaganda anti-japanese passion, xu beihong created a surprising number of paintings. "At that time no auction house, exhibit article is that people with a red cloth, see which picture is good, the next article red portrait painting cloth on the picture, write the name, means that the painting has been booked." Xu Qingping said that singaporeans said later, singaporeans collection of xu beihong art than China xu beihong memorial hall.
The Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1941, xu beihong will him three years in the new, horse, painted hundreds of works and other antique and custom oil painting rare books to a friend together, embedment of academy school in Singapore within the abandoned well, including xu beihong yourself think is the most precious 40 paintings. Then xu beihong alone carry 1000 works, boarding a ship before fall last bus bound for oil painting reproductions India, left Singapore.
Others, like this to draw apart.
Send pictures, said of "send picture" mystery
Xu beihong's no back in Singapore, after the Anti-Japanese War he inquired about the whereabouts of these paintings for many times, but no reply.
In 1985, Singapore's largest local newspaper continuously published the xu beihong treasure ". Reports of xu beihong collection was introduced in detail, also mentioned for the first time the whereabouts of painting: in September 1945, after the Japanese surrender, xu beihong Singapore friends Huang Manshi, Lin Jinsheng and chongwen school principals in qinghai, taken from the well of painting and calligraphy curios and sent a letter to xu beihong. President xu beihong reply said: "thank you for the clock to protect well hidden for three years and eight months, please select a collection." The clock, chose oil painting "yu gong yi shan" in qinghai.
The idea that later widely may be regarded as a charming story, but Xu Qingping but never believe it. "I asked my mother, she also said no such thing." Bio-fuels Xu Qingping said, if according to the article, taking a picture, it should return to the rest of the picture, but he never saw these pictures, and "oil painting is quite not easy, is also quite difficult, even at the cost of a common oil painting is now in the thousands of yuan of above, there are few painter take away some of his oil painting".
Although feel confused, but Xu Qingping remained silent, after all the treasure is his father's friends are better than one.
In search of painting - "yu gong yi shan" behind
Well to remove most of the paintings unaccounted for, only for the public is familiar with the "gift", "yu gong yi shan" Xu Qingping abroad seen this picture before and after three times, is from the beginning of the "yu gong yi shan", Xu Qingping bit by bit to know that the loss of xu beihong paintings mystery.
In the early 1990 s, xu beihong memorial hall for the first time, xu beihong art exhibition in Singapore, Xu Qingping and mother Liao Jingwen to Singapore. After watching the exhibition, there are a lot of people with the works of xu beihong to please Liao Jingwen and Xu Qingping do identification. "Most is real, is that there is no oil painting." Xu Qingping said: "later, a Singaporean friend said, there is a painting of my father, I don't know is true or not, let me have a look at."
"In the living room, and for the first time I saw the" yu gong yi shan "." Despite his father xu beihong memorial hall save creation of Chinese painting "yu gong yi shan", but when Xu Qingping saw this painting female version, or can't help it. "My mother shed tears at that time. Xu Qingping said that he himself was very excited. In chat with collectors, Xu Qingping know the holders of the painting is the academy high school principal clock qinghai's son, he told Xu Qingping, this painting is from father to him.
Puzzles - private you out
Soon after, Xu Qingping in Hong Kong to see Taiwan out of a "Paris years: xu beihong early sketch" album, to his surprise, the picture is indeed a xu beihong's early works, but these drawings no one has ever seen. "My father sketch language very deep, but few people know my father is a sketch for anything." Xu Qingping said. In Paris when painting, xu beihong painting sketch used a quartet of carbon crystal, the French call it "black stone", it makes his drawings is different.
This amount of drawings come from? This doubt when Xu Qingping to Singapore to hold their exhibition answered.
He met with in Singapore nanyang painting representative ShiXiang Tuo, the painter told Xu Qingping, those drawings are saved by him. Was from a pit to take out the picture, the presence of the people points out. The famous at that time were not great painter from Huang Manshi assigned to a volume of sketch, the sketch no signature, probably more than 110 copies. Later ShiXiang Tuo take these drawings to Taiwan to press, the results haven't return after.
Xu Qingping heart a stone and fell to the ground, he is convinced that the 40 paintings in the world.
Postscript: now, some of the 40 oil painting works are quietly, but most are still missing, Xu Qingping said: "I hope they can enter the museum, so that can exhibit, let everyone to see. If you only stay one or two people's hands, only one or two people see, that's a shame." (source: the new century weekly
wrong items of true and false, and pencil drawing gallery should guarantee the true and false, it is also the premise of oil painting buyers should pay attention to china gallery wholesale commen oil painting reproductions before investment. (source: Beijing morning post