Study of A Cat – Xu Wei

China
Ink on paper, hangng scroll
Dimensions:29.5″ (74.9cm) L, 9.5″ (24.1cm) W

Signed by the artist and inscribed, with two seals.

PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.

徐渭款 貓

Note: 徐渭（1521年3月12日－1593年），字文長，號青藤老人、青藤道士、天池生、天池山人、天池漁隱、金壘、 金回山人、山陰布衣、白鷳山人、鵝鼻山儂、田丹水、田水月，浙江山陰縣（今屬浙江紹興市）人，明朝文學家、書畫家、軍事家。

Provenance: Collection of well known Canadian artist, patron and collector Leo Rosshandler (1922 – 2020). Mr. Rosshandler’s career started in Europe and moved from Mexico City to Manhattan before finally settling in Montreal. Assistant director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in the seventies (to which he has donated the larger part of his vast collection of pre-Columbian art) and later director of the Lavalin Collection until 1989. C. C. Wang 王已千, C. T. Loo 盧芹齋 and other major players in the world of 20th-century Chinese art were great friends of his, and helped to develop Leo’s literati taste in Chinese classical painting. Two great Ming masterpieces by Zhu Da 朱耷 (Ba Da Shanren 八大山人) left Leo’s collection in the 1980’s, sold by Sotheby’s New York, and more recently many others have been donated to museums in Canada. This small eclectic group represents the last few works that the Rosshandler’s treasured for sentimental and artistic reasons.
來源：加拿大著名收藏家Leo Rosshandler私人收藏