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中誠2014年秋季拍賣「現代與當代藝術」
PU JIN (1893-1966)
88.5x31.5cm
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Pu Jin was a member of the Manchu imperial family and a cousin of the last emperor of China, Pu Yi, and the renowned painter Pu Ru. Pu Jin lived through the fall of the Ching Dynasty founded by his ancestors. He were educated in the Chinese classics and learned traditional styles of painting and calligraphy. Highly accomplished as a copyist of paintings from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties, Pu Jin became a professor and later Dean of the College of Art at Furen Catholic University in Beijing. In addition to landscapes and horses, Pu Jin also painted tigers and human figures, including an image of Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller. Pu Jin was also working at the Beijing Research Institute of Culture and History. He was also good at playing Guqin and served as the president of the Guqin Research Association in Beijing. His painting of a wearily trudging horse, and the poems inscribed on the scroll by Manchu noblemen and Chinese officials who had served the fallen dynasty, draw on artistic and literary traditions in which horses could symbolize both individuals and the Chinese empire itself.