3 Chinese Brush Paintings
These 3 paintings were purchased together from a small Estate in Colorado. Written on the back of 2 paintings is “Chinese Brush Painting (original) painted by the same artist when he was 88 years old. Bought in Malaysia in 1959. Since then, a Chinese visitor to our home shared his belief that these are Qui Bai Shi. Measurements of painting inside mat of frogs is 15” x 11”. For the crabs, inside mat is 15.5” x 11/14”. Size framed on both is 16.5” x 20.5”. The 3rd painting of shrimp reads on the back that this is from an album that was being sold by the page. See photos for full description. measurements are 11” x 15” inside mat and framed it is 20.5 x 16.5. I have not removed any of these from the frames yet.
Estate sale in Fort Collins Colorado in late 1990’s.
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Thank you for submitting your items for appraisal. These appear to be three mid 20th century chinese ink brush paintings. Two bear the 白石 red chop mark which very much matches the one used by 齊白石 QI Baishi (1864-1957) The one with the frogs is inscribed " the old man Baishi at the age of 93 years", the other "the old man Baishi at the age of 88 years". Compared to accepted paintings by Qi Baishi I would consider the quality rather weak and the handwriting appears to differ, especially the sloping stroke in the 石 is disturbing. The artist is one of the most copied artist in the world. He was quite aware of this himself. He is known to have said, that he would guarantee the authenticity only if the watercolour is taken directly out of this hands, but at the garden door no longer. The third watercolour with the shrimps is quite nice, apparently signed 陶 斌 (?) and 平林 (??). Unfortunately I couldn´t find a matching biography. For this I would see the value in the price range listed. There is no measurement for the sentimental value you might attach to the item
