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Shanghai Shu Hua Chu Ban She, Published 1997. Paperback, 44 pp.; 25 x 25 cm; text in Chinese; illustrated with 44 color plates (40 paintings, 4 works of calligraphy). First edition, first printing, May 1997, of 2,000 copies. Title calligraphy on half-title by Lu Yanshao, signed and sealed in facsimile; preface by Liu Yiwen.
In Very Good condition. Square format. Silver-gray covers lettered in red, with a mounted color reproduction of the painting On the Mount of Olives on front and rear covers; light bumping and creasing to edges, mild shelf wear with some color loss along edges, light scuffing to front cover and a few scuffs to rear cover, light soiling. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Monograph on the Shanghai painter and calligrapher Zhang Dawei (b. 1941), who entered the teacher-training class of the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy in 1962 and studied landscape painting under Lu Yanshao, and calligraphy under Hu Wensui and Wang Geyi. The paintings, many dated and inscribed, are landscapes and views of historic sites in China, among them Mount Tai, the Taihang Mountains, the Songhua River in snow, Huangshan and Guilin, together with paintings of the Last Supper site and the Mount of Olives, Qingdao Cathedral and a Pudong rose garden. Calligraphy includes a pair of clerical-script couplets and running-script hanging scrolls and a horizontal panel. Biography page with a photograph of the artist sketching outdoors; list of plates.