Artist: Zhao Puchu and Zhang Boju

Date: Modern, dated 1987

Dimensions: Height 54.5 cm, Width 39.6 cm

Material: Ink on paper

• Object Type：
  • CALLIGRAPHY
• Location：
  • Zhao Puchu Gallery
• Tag：
  • poem painting goldfish running script hanging scroll zhao puchu zhang boju 1987 ink paper

The artist Wu Zuoren once painted a picture titled Goldfish for the biologist Tong Dizhou to commemorate his successful breeding of a goldfish via genetic methods. Zhao wrote a comment (including a poem) on this picture at the request of Tong, and later Mr. Zhang Boju wrote three poems in reply to Zhao' comment. In 1987 upon receiving Zhang Boju's manuscript of the three poems from his wife Ms. Pan Su, Zhao Puchu rewrote his poem and comment around Zhang's text. He was eighty-one in that year.