Xugu (1823/4-1896)Immortal Image (Posthumous Portrait of Gao Yong's Wife) Horizontal handscroll, ink and light color on paper, with the artist's seal Xugu , mounted with a frontispiece calligraphy in running script, ink on gold flecked paper, dedicated to Yongzhi (Gao Yong, 1850-1921) and signed Xugu with an artist's seal Xugu Changle . the painting: 10 3/8 x 24 1/8in (26.1 x 61.1cm) the frontpiece: 10 3/8 x 33 1/8in (26.1x 84.1cm) 虛谷 仙影 設色紙本 手卷 鈐印：虛谷 引首：仙影。邕之先生。虛谷。鈐印：虛谷長樂 Provenance/來源: Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 30 April 1992, lot 196 蘇富比香港，1992年4月30日，拍品編號196 Published/出版: Teisuke Toda and Hiromitsu Ogawap. prehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings , Third Series, Volume 1: American and Canadian Collections, University of Tokyo Press, 2013, A50-021, p.188-189 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，A50-021，頁188-189 Tsao Jung Ying, Craig L. Yee and Siyuan Chen. Juefei An Xugu: yi quan da po qu lai jin, Breaking through the Past to Modernity: The Art of Xugu , Beijing, Liangyou Huayi, 2012, no 12 曹仲英, Craig L. Yee, Siyuan Chen,《覺非盦虛谷: 一拳打破去來今》，北京良友華藝，2012年，圖錄編號12 Little, 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.256-257, illustrated dust jacket 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，封面圖及頁256-257 Wue, Roberta May-hwa, Making the Artist: Ren Bonian and portraits of the Shanghai Art World , PhD diss., New York University, 2001, fig.85 Wue, Roberta May-hwa, Making the Artist: Ren Bonian and portraits of the Shanghai Art World , 博士論文, 紐約大學, 2001年, 插圖85 Andrews, 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, p.76 Andrews, 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76 Ding Xiyuan, "Canying yu Xianying", Gugong wenwu yuekan , Issue No.153, December 1995, pp.124-129 丁羲元，《餐英》與《仙影》—— 在美國所見虛谷肖像畫，《故宮文物月刊》，1995年12月第153期，頁124-129 Tsao Jung-Ying, The Paintings of Xugu and Qi Baishi , University of Washington Press, 1993, pp.172-175 曹仲英，《虛谷與齊白石繪畫》，華盛頓大學出版社，1993年，頁172-175 Exhibited/展覽: 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 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 Xugu's extant portraits are very scarce, with a handful in