‘GRAPES’, BY QI LIANGCHI (1921-2003)China. Ink and watercolors on paper, with a silk brocade frame and mounted as a hanging scroll. Boldly painted with vivid brushstrokes, depicting hanging branches with large leaves and bunches of grapes.Inscriptions: Upper left, signed ‘Qi Liangchi’, dated ‘in the Year of Ren[…]’, and inscribed ‘for brother Rongtang’.Provenance: The Oliver Impey Collection of Modern Paintings. Acquired at PS & N in October 1966. Oliver Impey (1936-2005) was the President of the Oriental Ceramics Society (1997-2000), a noted curator at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and a leading authority on the arts of Japan. He studied at the University of Oxford,pleting his thesis while working in London at Sotheby's, where his connoisseur and remarkable breadth of knowledge began to develop, as well as his intimate knowledge of the art trade and vigilant eye for a bargain. In 1967, he was appointed Assistant Keeper for Japanese Art at the Ashmolean, and was able, as a Sotheby's colleague put it rather bluntly, to move “straight from the whorehouse to the nunnery”. For nearly four decades, Impey was a tireless acquirer of fine objects, vastly expanding the Museum's holdings. He designed and raised the funds for a new Japanese Decorative Arts gallery to house these treasures and he also befriended several generous benefactors, who made important donations to the Museum. The respect with which he was held in Japan was marked by the award of the Koyama Fujio Memorial Prize in 1997. His personal collection contained works by major masters from Japan, China, and several other Asian countries, of which many were sold by Christie’s in Hong Kong in the late 2000s.Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, little soiling, minuscule tears to edges, minor creasing.Dimensions: 68,5 x 33 image size, and 203 x 49,5 total sizeQi Liangchi (1921-2003), born in Xiangtan, Hunan, became a well-known painter in the style of Zichang. He was the fourth child of the famous Qi Baishi. At the age of ten, he studied traditional Chinese painting techniques under the guidance of his father. At twenty-four, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Beijing Furen University, and then engaged in art education. Later, following Zhou Enlai's entrustment, he resigned from teaching to serve the elderly Baishi and study the Qi School of painting. After Baishi’s death, he taught at the National Peiping Art College.Auction resultparison:Type: RelatedAuction: Beijing Hanhai Art Auction Co. Beijing, 7 December 2012, lot 337Price: CNY 103,500 or approx.EUR 18,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: Qi Liangchi (1921-2003), Grape and butterflyExpert remark:pare the related motif and technique with similar brushstrokes. Note the size (130 x 66 cm).齊良遲(1921-2003)《葡萄》中國，紙本水墨設色，掛軸。流暢的構圖和清麗的設色，不加任何渲染，葡萄憑空而來，藤纏蔓繞，果實累累，葡萄的闊葉以兩三筆簡練寫出，明暗