Auction Information
Product: Wang Xizhi's penmanship
NO:3151
Starting Price:SGD:1,490,000
Transaction Price:Uncompleted
Specification:
Auction Time:23-Sep-Sat
Auction Company:Habsburg International Auction Co.. Ltd
Description
Wang Xizhi has been fond of calligraphy since childhood and was enlightened by his father Wang Kuang and uncle Wang Gui. At the age of seven, he was good at writing, and at the age of twelve, he stole from his father's pillow and read the previous generation's "Bi Lun". Wang Kuang's good deeds and clerical script; Wang Xi was skilled in calligraphy and painting. In his book "On the Book," Wang Sengqian commented, "Before crossing the Jiangdong region and entering the Right Army, only he was the best. He painted under the guidance of Emperor Jin Ming and wrote under the Right Army's teachings." Wang Xi was deeply influenced by the Wang family's calligraphy from a young age. Liu Duo, a contemporary calligraphy talent studying in the United States, once praised that "good characters are the only one (Wang Xizhi).".