Zhang Daqian (1899-1983)


Scholar Under a Willow, 1948 Hanging scroll, ink and color on gold flecked paper, inscribed by the artist and dated wuzi (1948), fourth month, and signed Zhang Daqian Yuan at Dafeng Tang, with two artist's seals reading Zhang Yuan and Daqian Jushi. 20 1/2 x 13 1/4in (52.1 x 33.6cm)
|張大千 柳蔭高士圖 設色紙本 立軸 一九四八年作Paintings from the Collection of Margaruitte FoisieMs. Foisie was born in 1926 to Russian immigrants living in Shanghai. Except for a few years early in life when her family resided in Dalian and Hankou, she lived in Shanghai until late 1948. It was there that she met her husband, Philip Foisie, in 1945, who was with the U.S. armed forces military intelligence and was the lone U.S. soldier assigned to accompany Chinese units fighting against the Japanese in the Salween River Campaign near Burma and in southern and central China.Mr. and Mrs. Foisie were married in Shanghai in 1948; later that year they went to the United States. Initially residing in the San Francisco area, and later in Louisville, KY, they moved to the Washington, DC area in 1955 where Mr. Foisie, some years later, became foreign editor of the Washington Post. The Foisie's remained in Washington until 1981, when Mr. Foisie became Executive Editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris. They lived in Paris for six years, and subsequently returned to the Washington, DC area, where Mrs. Foisie lived for the next 30 years until her death in 2017.瑪格麗特･弗伊斯珍藏中國書畫一九二六年，弗伊斯女士出生於一個居住在上海的俄國移民家庭。童年時期，她隨父母分別在大連和漢口居住，但大部分時間在上海長大。菲利浦･弗伊斯先生在一九四五年作為美軍情報部門工作人員被派駐到中國，曾協助中方在中緬邊境反擊日軍。一九四八年，弗伊斯女士和菲利浦在上海相遇相識，兩人於同年結婚。婚後不久，弗伊斯夫婦返回美國舊金山灣區居住。之後也在肯塔基州的路易斯維爾短暫生活過一段時間。一九五五年，弗伊斯先生在華盛頓郵報社獲得了海外新聞部編輯一職，兩人遂搬到華盛頓定居。一九八一年，弗伊斯先生接受了國際先驅論壇報社駐巴黎執行總編的職位，弗伊斯女生便隨其先生在巴黎生活工作了六年。從國際先驅論壇報社離職後，弗伊斯夫婦重返華盛頓生活，直到二〇一七年弗伊斯女士去世。