Identification Of The Lot Xu Beihong’s "Calligraphy And Horse Album"

The Beijing Poly’s 2014 lot Xu Beihong’s "calligraphy and horse album",which was sold for 10.465 million RMB.In view of the phenomenon of mixed fish and dragons in the auction market of Xu Beihong’s calligraphy and paintings,the paper uses methods such as stylistics,literature research and comparative appraisal methods to seize the obvious traces of counterfeiting on the styles and signatures of galloping horses,cat stones,flying eagles and starlings,and conduct analysis and identification,so as to determine that the lot Xu Beihong’s "calligraphy and horse album" is a fake.First of all,Xu Beihong’s style of painting galloping horses is characterized by rigorous structural shape,and there are light and dark sides in the head and body parts of the horse;After style research and comparison,it was found that the shape of the head and body parts of the galloping horse in the lot "Galloping Horse Diagram" did not distinguish between light and dark sides,which was far from Xu Beihong’s usual modeling method,so it was considered a forgery.Second,Xu Beihong’s style of painting cat stones is characterized by accurate proportions of cat structures,meticulous depiction of background plants,no moss spots at rock turns,and black and white paintings;The cat shape structure in the lot "Cat Stone Diagram" is chaotic,there are moss spots at the turn of the rock,and there is no black and white ink color change on the hind legs and tail of the cat,so it is considered a forgery.Third,Xu Beihong’s style of painting flying eagles is characterized by the spatial position relationship of "near big and far small",the shape is rigorous and organized,and the ink color is natural;However,the two legs of the flying eagle in the lot "Flying Eagle Diagram" do not conform to the spatial position relationship of "near big and far small",and the ink color changes single,exposing obvious traces of counterfeiting.The style of Xu Beihong’s bamboo painting is characterized by the color of the bamboo changing in shade and the bamboo knots are horizontal "C" shape;However,the bamboo depicted in the lot "Starling Figure" has a single color and the connection of bamboo nodes is horizontal "S" shape,so it is considered a forgery.Xu Beihong’s "Bei" character is used by the center pen,and the two "vertical" paintings are parallel;The character "Bei" in the lot "Starling Figure" is loosely knotted,and the two "vertical" paintings of the word "Bei" are in the shape of "<>",thus concluding that the word "Bei" is a pseudo.The above appraisal is enough to prove that the lot Xu Beihong’s "calligraphy and horse album" is a fake painting.