張大千晚年作品《桃源圖》2.7億港元成交創拍賣紀錄

"Peach Blossom Spring", an ink-and-color work made by master painter Zhang Daqian in his later years, fetched HK$270m ($34.8m) at Sotheby's spring auction in Hong Kong on last Tuesday, setting an auction record for the artist.

國畫大師張大千晚年潑墨潑彩作品《桃源圖》上週二在香港蘇富比春季拍賣會上以2.7億港元(約合3480萬美元)成交，刷新了張大千個人作品拍賣紀錄。

"Peach Blossom Spring", a hanging-scroll landscape that Zhang made a year before his death, aroused a heated bidding war in the salesroom of Sotheby's major spring auction.

《桃源圖》是張大千在去世的前一年完成的山水立軸，該畫在蘇富比春季拍賣會上引起了一場激烈的競購戰。

It finally went to Liu Yiqian, a billionaire collector from Shanghai who made headlines last year for spending $170 million on Amedeo Modigliani's Nu Couche ("Reclining Nude") in a New York auction.

這幅畫最終被來自上海的富豪收藏家劉益謙收入囊中。劉益謙因去年在紐約一個拍賣會上以1.7億美元拍得莫迪里亞尼名畫《躺臥的裸婦》而聲名大噪。

"Peach Blossom Spring", which is 2 meters long, exemplifies Zhang's mastery and creativity in the po cai (splashed ink and color) technique — an artistic approach he invented in his later years.

《桃源圖》尺幅頗大，長約兩米。充分體現了張大千在潑彩技藝上的造詣和創新。潑彩是他晚年發明的一種藝術手法。

Zhang created the painting at his well-known residence and studio, the Abode of Maya, located in the Wai-shuang-hsi area on the outskirts of Taipei. He settled in Taiwan in 1976 after decades of living in Brazil and the United States.

創作這幅圖卷時，張大千居在他的名宅兼工作室“摩耶精舍”，該住所位於臺北郊區的外雙溪。在巴西和美國生活幾十年之後，張大千於1976年在臺灣定居。

C.K. Cheung, head of Sotheby's Chinese paintings department, said in a presale release that the painting is considered to be "a pivotal work from Zhang's late years, alongside Mount Lu," another landscape by Zhang that is currently at the Taipei Palace Museum.

蘇富比中國書畫部主管張超羣在預售發佈會上表示，這幅畫和《廬山圖》被認爲是張大千晚年壓卷之作。《廬山圖》現藏於臺北故宮中。