Six pine laths with the poem "Drinking Alone under the Moon" by the Tang poet Li Bai (701-762). Inscription, dated 1987, signed Gu Gan and sealed Gu Gan. (6)
Six pine laths with the poem "Drinking Alone under the Moon" by the Tang poet Li Bai (701-762). Inscription, dated 1987, signed Gu Gan and sealed Gu Gan. (6)
240 x 9,55 cm each lath
"Among the blossoms waits a jug of wine.
I pour myself a drink, no loved one near.
Raising my cup, I invite the bright moon
and turn to my shadow. We are now three.
But the moon does not know much about drinking,
and my shadow just follows my body. (And what I do, the shadow does blindly)
For a time moon and shadow will be my companions,
a passing joy that should last through the spring.
I sing and the moon just sways back and forth,
I dance and my shadow whips around like mad.
While lucid still, we have such fun together!
But stumbling drunk, each staggers off alone.
Bound forever, relentless we roam:
reunited at last on the distant river of stars."
古干 《月下獨酌》[唐] 李白 鬆木板六條
款識：一九八七年 古干 鈐印：古干
「花間一壺酒，獨酌無相親。
舉杯邀明月，對影成三人。
月既不解飲，影徒隨我身。
暫伴月將影，行樂須及春。
我歌月徘徊，我舞影零亂。
醒時同交歡，醉後各分散。
永結無情遊，相期邈雲漢。 」
来源：德国北威州私人收藏 Dr. Ilse Lommel 私人收藏，此後由家族傳承
Provenance
Private collection Dr. Ilse Lommel (1923-2017), North-Rhine-Westphalia, and thence in the family by descent