Ink Landscape Horizontal handscroll, ink on paper, inscribed by the artist, and signed Lifan Ren Yu, with an artist's seal Lifan, with a collector's seal to the outer titleslip Mo zhai.7 1/2 x 41 1/4in (19.2 x 105cm) 任預 仿元人山水 水墨紙本 手卷Provenance/來源:Collection of Jung Ying Tsao (1929-2011)曹仲英珍藏書畫Published/出版:Toda, Teisuke and Hiromitsu Ogawa comp. Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings, Third Series, Volume 1: American and Canadian Collections, University of Tokyo Press, 2013, A50-03, pp. 185-186戶田禎佑、小川裕充，《中國繪畫總合圖錄》三編，第一卷，東京大學出版會，東京，2013年，A50-03，頁185-186Andrews, Julia Frances, Michael Knight, and Pauline Yao. Between the Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium War Through the Cultural Revolution, 1840-1979, San Francisco: Echo Rock Ventures, in association with the Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, 2000, pp. 62-63Andrews, Julia Frances, Michael Knight, and Pauline Yao,《風雲際會：從鴉片戰爭到「文革」（1840-1979）的中國繪畫》，亞洲藝術博物館，李鐘文亞洲藝術文化中心，舊金山，加州，2000年，頁62-63Little, Stephen, and J. May Lee Barrett. New Songs on Ancient Tunes: 19th-20th Century Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Richard Fabian Collection, Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2007, pp. 364-365 Little, Stephen, J. May Lee Barrett,《古調新歌：費立哲神父珍藏十九及二十世紀中國書畫》，檀香山藝術博物館，夏威夷，2007年，頁364-365Exhibited/展覽:Between the Thunder and the Rain, Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, San Francisco, California, October 25, 2000-January 14, 2001《風雲際會：從鴉片戰爭到「文革」（1840-1979）的中國繪畫》，亞洲藝術博物館，舊金山，加州，2000年10月25日至2001年1月14日New Songs on Ancient Tunes, Honolulu Art Academy, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 30-October 28, 2007《古調新歌：費立哲神父珍藏十九及二十世紀中國書畫》，檀香山藝術博物館，夏威夷，2007年8月30日至10月28日Ren Yu was from Xiaoshan (now Hangzhou), and used the courtesy name Lifan. He was born into an artist's family -- his father was the famous Shanghai School artist Ren Xiong (see lots 24, 25). Though Ren Yu followed his father's path, and became a talented painter himself, he never studied with his father as Ren Xiong passed away when Ren Yu was only four years old. He was a very versatile artist, who not only excelled at landscape painting, but also figures (see lot 33), and flower and bird paintings.