Description: 潘天壽 (1897-1970) 鄰家臥狸圖 水墨设色纸本立軸 1954年作 款識:日當正午,湥藏黠鼠,萛衜貓兒,太嬾睡虎。寫西隣園中所見昢甲午初夏壽。 鈐印:壽、壽者、止止樓。 潘天壽精於寫意花鳥和山水,偶作人物,尤善画鹰、八哥、狸猫、青蛙、蔬果及松梅花卉等。其畫作構圖清新,畫面靈動 ,落筆大膽,點染細腻,不獨墨彩縱横交錯,氣势磅礴,且意韻隽永,引人入勝。潘天壽繪畫每作必有奇局,结構於险中尋求平衡,形能简約而意逺。其指墨以凝重生辣見長,为傳統筆墨所难企及,並多以其法繪製簡古題材,然簡而不簡,寫亦非寫,頗得畫中神趣。 A Clever Cat Next Door / Pan Tianshou (1897-1970) Hanging Scroll Ink on Paper 26 3/4 X 17 1/4 inches 67.95 X 43.80 cm The cat is vividly hand-painted in a unique style on rice paper. It shows the artist's highly developed skills in black-white ink painting as well as his exceptional imagination. It is inscribed and bears three seal impressions of the artist. According to the inscription, the clever cat is painted after a real one of a neighboring household in early summer of 1954.