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"Bamboo and Stone Orchid Hui" is a work made by Zheng Banqiao when he was 63 years old when he was selling paintings in Yangzhou and Zhou, and was made for the 80th birthday of his friend Liu Qingqui's mother.

But at that time, Zheng Banqiao's painting creation had reached its peak, and his pen was strong and strong through the back of the paper, which should have been at his peak, so this painting was particularly precious.

This picture is an ink on paper, a vertical scroll, such a large-scale masterpiece is quite rare in Zheng Banqiao's works, and it has sold for a sky-high price, which is the table of today's market's high value for its follow-up.

On the picture, a few bushes of bamboo stand in front of the rock, and there are orchids under it, just like nature, showing the interest of nature. The arrangement of bamboo cultivation is staggered, but the bamboo poles are fine but show strength.

Carefully appreciated, bamboo leaves, bamboo stems have the brushwork of Banqiao's "six and a half minutes" calligraphy, swaying and colorful, and the beautiful artistic conception reveals the old spicy style of painting.

"Let's start with the bamboo on this painting." Uncle Li said.

Zheng Banqiao's method of painting bamboo has obvious calligraphy brushes, which is his basis on the principle of "calligraphy and painting homology", taking Su Shi and Huang Tingjian's "calligraphy button, penetrating into the painting", from the cloud "Dongpo, Lu Zhi to make calligraphy is not bamboo, and my painting bamboo is often learned. The yellow book is sprinkled and thin, and the thin leaves in my bamboo are learned; The Dongpo book is short and fat, and the fat leaves in my bamboo are learned. This is what I take from the book."

For this reason, there is an obvious calligraphy pen in his method of painting bamboo, and the bamboo leaves not only have a yellow body thin pen and a Su body fat front, but also present a subordinate skimming, and the bamboo stem also has a mellow seal meaning.

Let's look at the stone cliff on the painting, which is a majestic and simple stone cliff. It is not the exquisitely clear, soft and mellow Taihu Lake stone in ordinary literati paintings, it is so hard and hard, although the form lacks the beauty of proportion and harmony, but it exudes a strong and upright atmosphere, it is really because Zheng Banqiao follows Su Shi's "ugly stone theory", ugly can be transformed into beauty. There is beauty in ugliness, and ugliness is beautiful and strange, and then highlights the male and beautiful stones, just as he himself said, "Xie painted this stone, ugly stone also, ugly and male, ugly and showy".

The artist's original bamboo and stone painting style, supplemented by the multi-body integration of the "six and a half" calligraphy inscription "Insist on the green mountains and do not relax the ......", the poems, calligraphy and paintings complement each other. Not only is the pen and ink full of charm, but also the rich theme of the work comes out - in the chaotic world, bamboo with its ambitions, standing on the top of the cliff, setting the green mountains, can resist the attack of the eight winds, reflecting the author's own arrogant and maverick aspirations.

Zheng Banqiao is a representative of the "Eight Monsters of Yang and Zhou", according to the "Eight Monsters" in Li Yudi's "Ou Bo Luo Room Calligraphy and Painting Examination" in the Qing Dynasty. Luo Ping, Li Fangying, Li Eel, Jin Nong, Huang Shen, Zheng Xie, Gao Xiang and Wang Shishen.

Among the "Eight Monsters", Zheng Banqiao is a representative figure. According to the literature, when Qianlong toured the east, he once named Zheng Banqiao as the "history of calligraphy and painting".

And Xu Beihong once inscribed a painting of Zheng Xie's "Orchid Bamboo": "Mr. Itabashi is one of the most outstanding figures in China in the past 300 years." Its thoughts are strange, the literature is strange, and the calligraphy and painting are especially strange. Looking at his poems, calligraphy and paintings, I not only want to see the elegance. And its benevolence and compassion are wonderful, especially those who are rare in ancient times and today. ”

Zheng Banqiao was praised by later generations as an all-round painter of "poetry, calligraphy and painting", and some commentators said that Zheng Banqiao had three truths among the three uniques, namely true meaning, true qi and true interest.

His calligraphy melts the body of Huang Tingjian and Su Dongpo. Mixed with the seal and the line of the body and mixed with the orchid bamboo pen into the book, the size is uneven, unconventional, there is both the steep vertical and horizontal male, and there is the chic and beautiful rhyme, people call "six and a half books".

Qing He Shaoji commented on Banqiao calligraphy: "Banqiao characters imitate the valley, and the orchid bamboo is interspersed, which is particularly interesting. ”

With painting brushwork into the book, there are also ancient, but like Banqiao out of the magic of the same.

His painting achievements are extremely high, especially good at painting bamboo and stone, thin branches and thick leaves, thin and lonely tall, the style is superhuman, the painted orchid highlights the wild atmosphere in the mountains, with the pen Xiuyi, the fragrance is overwhelming.

Uncle Li believes that the unique style and outstanding achievements of Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy and painting have had a great impact at that time, and there are many followers, and there is a name for the Banqiao school...... Gonghua bamboo, mixed with eight-point book and regular script, self-contained, now Weixian County, Shandong Province people multi-effect its body. ”

In later generations, many famous masters also learned his method, such as Dai Xi, He Shaoji's bamboo and stone, etc., and more people absorbed his spirit of courage to innovate and founded new styles one after another, such as the modern "Shanghai School" and modern Qi Baishi, Xu Shiqiao and others.

Among the Eight Monsters of Yang and Zhou, Zheng Banqiao's status in the history of painting and his influence in later generations are second to none.

Zheng Banqiao is the most representative painter in the "Eight Eccentrics of Yang and Zhou", his life experience from official to civilian, from scholar to businessman, from literati painter to professional painter, and finally formed a painting style that is alienated from orthodox art, unconventional, and strange, and has an important position in the history of Chinese art.

Uncle Li spat lotus flowers in his mouth, and everyone was fascinated by what he said, even Han Peacock and Wei Changqing admired him.

However, a fake is a fake, and although this painting is very well painted, it is a fake after all.

Zheng Banqiao's works have survived in large quantities, so there are more fakes, which can almost be described as flooding the auction floors.

Because of this, Han Peacock and Wei Changqing were careful at the beginning, but by now, both of them had golden eyes.

Since the painting used to cover the original work on the outside is of such a high level, the "Bamboo Stone Orchid Picture" hidden inside the air is probably a treasure.

Seeing Wei Changqing's eager gaze, Han Peacock could only sigh helplessly, this hidden painting inside, after all, was discovered by Wei Changqing, and the painting inside was only visible to Wei Changqing, so Han Peacock really couldn't grab it from Wei Changqing.

Although Han Peacock's spiritual sense and supernatural powers are powerful, in the face of an encapsulated painting, he can only dimly feel the general situation inside, and he can't clearly see what the internal painting is like to Wei Changqing's spiritual ability.

"Old Li, how many shots do you plan to make for this painting?" Wei Changqing saw that Han Peacock didn't speak, and immediately gave Han Peacock a grateful look and asked about the price.

Li Lao touched his beard and said, "This painting of mine must be Zheng Banqiao's authentic work, so the price must not be low." ”

"You always talk about a price, no matter whether the painting exists or not, there is always a price, right?" Wei Changqing said with a smile, although this painting was said by Li Lao, it was not genuine, and no one knew it better than him.

Uncle Li was very direct this time: "Over the years, the price of Zheng Banqiao's bamboo and stone drawings has increased greatly, and I don't plan to sell this one at a sky-high price, so as long as it is five million, you must know that I will have at least nine million." ”

Wu Dong of the Wu family said at this time: "This price is not too outrageous, the recent auction of a pair of Zheng Banqiao bamboo and stone drawings is estimated to be more than nine million. ”

Uncle Wu pulled his son and said, "Who doesn't know this?" The main reason is that the authenticity of Zheng Banqiao is not easy to identify, so the price of three million is high. ”

"That's right! Uncle Li, I believe that if you want to sell at this price, no one will definitely accept it, after all, Zheng Banqiao's fakes are too much. Wei Changqing said.

This is a fact, as a professional painter, Zheng Banqiao's paintings have survived a relatively large number of paintings, according to statistics, there are more than 7,000 paintings.

Among Zheng Banqiao's surviving works, the authenticity is mixed, and fakes are full of auctions, and some people say that "the authenticity is less than one-tenth", which can be said to be the real one in ten.

This is mainly because Zheng Banqiao dared to make money, for thousands of years, Chinese literati were ashamed to talk about money, most of them thought that the vulgar was unbearable, but Zheng Banqiao had a unique view of elegance and vulgarity, thinking that there was nothing to be ashamed of exchanging paintings for money.

At the age of 30, Zheng Banqiao was already difficult to make a living by teaching, so he went to Yangzhou and Zhou to sell paintings for a living, and became a professional painter for 10 years.

In the letter of "Signing the Present Brother Mo", he wrote: "Quickly install my inkstone, quickly carry my manuscript, sell paintings Yang, Zhou, and Li Tonglao." Sure enough, after he resigned, he worked as a professional painter until his death, selling paintings for 20 years to make a living.

"Declaration Library Series. Sequel", people with gold and silver to Zheng Banqiao under the door to ask for paintings, the outside of the hall is always covered with guests' shoes, guests in the room silently waiting for the release of calligraphy and painting, there is no lack of people who buy paintings, "the prince, the secretary, the Sao people, the old monk in the mountains, the yellow crown refiner", more buyers are salt merchants, Hui merchants and other rich businessmen.

Zheng Banqiao marketed his calligraphy and painting works as commodities, clearly marked the price, and publicly declared his identity as a professional painter, which made him a prolific painter.

This is known to the world, but Uncle Li's price is still very tight: "I naturally know this, so I didn't ask for a high price, in recent years, Zheng Banqiao's authentic handiwork is not five million that can be bought, my price is very fair." ”

If it weren't clear that the painting on the outside was a fake, Wei Changqing would have bought it at this price, because in 1992, a painting by Zheng Banqiao's "Bamboo and Stone" sold for $110,000 at Christie's in New York.

From the spring auction in 1994 to the spring auction in 2003, a total of 180 works by Zheng Banqiao were auctioned by major auction houses in the mainland, and 126 pieces were sold, with a turnover rate of 70% and a total market value of 32.1 million yuan.

In the spring auction of 2007, Zheng Banqiao's works were sold for 1.792 million yuan, and the spring auction of Beijing Poly "Orchid Bamboo Stone" was 1.65 million yuan.

According to statistics, in 2008 alone, there were 7 Zheng Banqiao auctions with more than one million yuan in domestic auctions, including 6.944 million yuan for "Double Pine Picture" in the capital Hanhai autumn auction, 5.376 million yuan for "Seven Sages" in Jiuge autumn auction, 4.48 million yuan for "Bamboo and Stone Picture" in Huachen autumn auction, 1.758 million yuan for "Orchid and Bamboo Atlas" in the capital Poly spring auction, and 1.68 million yuan for "Bamboo and Stone Picture" in Huachen Spring auction. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)