€2,600
A Chinese ying stone scholar's rock on wooden stand
H.: 43 cm (incl. stand)
Provenance:
- From the Gathering Elegance (Juxiu Zhai) studio, an important French private collection.
-Acquired in 2007 fromGalerie 41, Monaco.
The founder on the origins of the Gathering Elegance studio:
The beauty of nature had always attracted us to rocks, but it was an appreciation of Chinese brush painting and a chance encounter with a scholar's rock (gonshi) in a New York gallery in 2006 that led to a passion for gonshi.
Through years of exchanges with dealers, collectors and museums in Europe, China and the US, we developed the Juxui Zhai (Gathering Elegance studio) collection with most pieces acquired before 2012. Kemin Hu, a leading authority, has been an important guide to these ultimate “time travelers” appreciated by artists, poets and other lovers of rocks through the centuries.
Our choice of gonshi is based not only on their eye-catching shapes and textures but also on their "spirit". If spring flowers and fall colors represent the fleeting world, rocks represent the birth of the cosmos and its complex transformations. With each change of angle and light, these rocks reveal something new to the eye and stimulate our imaginations.
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