‘AUTUMN MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE’, BY HUANG JUNBI (1898-1991), CHINA, DATED 1951Boldly painted with a scholar seated amid bamboo stalks near a bridge in a vast misty landscape with towering mountains, pines and other trees, two waterfalls, and small huts.Ink and watercolors on paper, with a silk brocade frame and mounted as a hanging scroll.Inscriptions: Upper left, signed ‘Huang Junbi’, titled ‘Landscape’, and dated ‘In the Summer of the Year of Xinmao’ (corresponding to 1951). Two seals of the artist, ‘Huang Junbi yin’ and ‘Jun Weng’.Provenance: The Oliver Impey Collection of Modern Paintings. Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 October 2011, lot 1836, sold for HKD 300,000 or approx. EUR 49,000 (converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing). A private collector, acquired from the above. Oliver Impey (1936-2005) was the President of the Oriental Ceramics Society (1997-2000), a noted curator at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and a leading authority on the arts of Japan. He studied at the University of Oxford, completing his thesis while working in London at Sotheby's, where his connoisseurship and remarkable breadth of knowledge began to develop, as well as his intimate knowledge of the art trade and vigilant eye for a bargain. In 1967, he was appointed Assistant Keeper for Japanese Art at the Ashmolean, and was able, as a Sotheby's colleague put it rather bluntly, to move “straight from the whorehouse to the nunnery”. For nearly four decades, Impey was a tireless acquirer of fine objects, vastly expanding the Museum's holdings. He designed and raised the funds for a new Japanese Decorative Arts gallery to house these treasures and he also befriended several generous benefactors, who made important donations to the Museum. The respect with which he was held in Japan was marked by the award of the Koyama Fujio Memorial Prize in 1997. His personal collection contained works by major masters from Japan, China, and several other Asian countries, of which many were sold by Christie’s in Hong Kong in the late 2000s.Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and little soiling.Dimensions: Image size 115 x 54 cm, Size incl. mounting 217 x 64 cmHuang Junbi (1898-1991) was an important Chinese master painter, who strongly believed in the inheritance of traditional brushwork while reforming it constantly to express one’s personal feelings. He moved to Taiwan together with Pu Ru and Zhang Daqian in 1949, the group thus becoming known as the ‘The Three Masters Crossing The Sea’. Huang studied both Chinese and Western painting in Guangzhou and Japan, eventually teaching at the National University in Chongqing (Guoli zhongyang daxue) during the Second Sino-Japanese war. After 1949, he became the head of the Fine Arts Department at the National Taiwan University.Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Bonhams San Francisco, 16 December 2014, lot 8401 Price: USD 75,000 or approx. EUR 88,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: Huang Junbi (1898-1991), Waterfall Landscape, dated 1943 Expert remark: Note the size (102.9 x 59.4 cm)Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 November 2012, lot 1339 Price: HKD 800,000 or approx. EUR 124,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: Huang Junbi (1898-1991), Mountainous Landscape, dated 1941 Expert remark: Note the size (96 x 40.6 cm)黃君璧《松壑秋閒》，1951年紙本水墨設色，掛軸。山岩矗立，由前至後，草葉繁茂，苔點細密，山林之間文人靜坐觀瀑。用筆愈趨凝重剛強。 款識：松壑秋閒，辛卯夏黃君璧；鈴印：黃君璧印，君翁 來源：Oliver Impey 現代繪畫收藏；香港蘇富比，2011年10月3日，lot 1836，售價 HKD 300,000 或相當於EUR 49,000 (根據通貨膨脹率)；私人收藏，購於上述拍賣。Oliver Impey (1936-2005) 曾任東方陶瓷學會會長（1997-2000），牛津阿什莫林博物館著名策展人以及日本藝術領域的權威。 他曾就讀於牛津大學，在倫敦蘇富比工作期間完成了論文。在蘇富比，他的鑑賞力和非凡的知識得以發展，以及他對藝術貿易的深入了解和對交易的警惕眼光。1967 年，他被任命為阿什莫林日本藝術助理管理員。在近四十年的時間裡，Impey 孜孜不倦地收購精美物品，極大地擴大了博物館的藏品。 他為一個新的日本裝飾藝術藝廊設計並籌集了資金來收藏這些珍品。他還結交了幾位慷慨的捐助者，他們為博物館提供了重要的捐贈。 他在日本受到的尊重並於1997 年獲得小山富士夫紀念獎。他的個人收藏包括日本、中國和其他幾個亞洲國家的主要大師的作品，其中許多作品于2000年後期香港佳士得拍賣會上售出。品相：品相非常好，稍微磨損和汙積。 尺寸：畫面115 x 54 厘米，總217 x 64 厘米 黃君璧 (1898-1991) 是一位重要的中國繪畫大師，他繼承傳統筆法的，同時不斷改革以表達個人情感。1949年與溥儒、張大千移居台灣，被譽為“渡海三家”。黃君璧在廣州和日本學習中國和西方繪畫，最終在第二次中日戰爭期間在重慶國立國立中央大學任教。 1949年後任台灣大學美術系主任。 拍賣結果比較： 形制：非常相近 拍賣：舊金山邦瀚斯，2014年12月16日，lot 8401 價格：USD 75,000（相當於今日EUR 88,500） 描述：黄君璧《山水》設色紙本，立軸一九四三年作 專家評論：請注意尺寸(102.9 x 59.4 厘米) 。 拍賣結果比較： 形制：非常相近 拍賣：香港佳士得，2012年11月27日，lot 1339 價格：HKD 800,000（相當於今日EUR 124,000） 描述：黃君璧《山水》設色紙本，鏡框一九四一年作 專家評論：請注意尺寸(96 x 40.6 厘米)。