Media: Chinese ink and watercolor on paper with traditional paper backing
Size: 17.5 x 13 in.
Date: November 2016
Signed: Lukesi [in Chinese]
Seals: Lu (lower left), Pine Heart (upper right under signature)
Inscription: “I have no idea how I’m going to get over there!” — From a sketch in the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of painting. Lu Kesi November 2016.
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$200
“I have no idea how I’m going to get over there!” In so many early Chinese landscape paintings you can see one or more figures and somewhere some buildings, but no clear way for the people to get there from where they are.
A color painting by Lu Kesi based on a black and white woodcut illustration in the Ming dynasty Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting—with added commentary not found in the original.