“Fruit and Vegetables”
Album of 12 leaves, ink and color on paper
21 x 24 cm. (8 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.)
Inscription:
“Painted by T’ang Lu-ming.”
Artist’s seals:
T’ang Lu-min yin; T’ang sheng; Lu-ming yin; and two others
“Season of the Yellow Plum Blossoms” 1978
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
47.1 x 48.6 cm. (18 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.)
Inscription:
“During the season of yellow plum blossoms, raindrops fall in profusion. During the year 1978 I did this small scene of Jiangnan at the Central Art Academy. Yufu.”
Artist’s seal:
Fu
“Sandalwood Tree” 2013
Folding-fan-shaped painting, ink and color on paper
21.5 x 61.3 cm. (8 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.)
Inscription:
“On a divine cliff for a thousand years
the sandalwood tree is old yet green.
By the sixty-nine year old eccentric, Luo Jianwu.”
Artist’s seals:
Jianwu; Cheng-huai (“Purity in my heart”)
“White Peonies: A Cumulus Accumulation” 2013
Oil, acrylic, ink, and gold leaf on Japanese woodblock printed paper mounted on Japanese paper.
45.7 x 325.1 cm. (18 x 128 in.)
Artist’s initials written in black twice on the front; signed, titled, and dated in pencil twice on the reverse.
“Lotus Pond in Summer” 2010
Hanging scroll, ink, walnut ink, and color on paper
77.7 x 214.6 cm. (30 5/8 x 84 1/2 in.)
Artist’s seals:
Wang Mansheng yin; Ban sheng
“Nature in Bondage to Art” 2011
Top: “Snow field on Loess plateau, Mizhi county, Shaanxi province”
Photograph in folding fan shape, ink on paper
12.8 x 40 cm. (5 x 15 3/4 in.)
Bottom: “Zhangjiajie National Park, Hunan province”
Photograph in round fan shape, ink on paper
21 x 22.4 cm. (8 1/4 x 8 7/8 in.)
“Hotei”
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
46.5 x 63 cm (18 3/8 x 24 3/4 in.)
Inscription:
“The compassionate eye (of the Buddha) views all sentient beings, (and grants) wealth and longevity like a sea without end. Hakuin painted this beneath the sala tree.” (followed by his cipher)
Artist’s seals:
Kogantei; Ekaku no sho; Hakuin
Box inscription:
“A genuine painting of Hotei by Zen Master Hakuin, written on December 15, 1959, by Abbot Sokaku of Shoin-ji in Chosho.” Seal: Sokaku
Published:
Bokubi (Hakuin Bokuseki Tokushu) no. 78, Kyoto, 1958, no. 49, p. 40.
“Tiger by Waterfall”
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
116.6 x 52 cm. (45 7/8 x 20 1/2 in.)
Inscription:
“Ken Choko.”
Artist’s seals:
Ken Ryotai in; Mokyo; Sansui sei’in (“Pure sounds over mountains and waters”)