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观音大士：
早在上世纪五六十年代，就有一种说法：中国近现代美术界中，张大千的观音，齐白石的虾，徐悲鸿的马并称三绝。大千先生一生绘观音作品无数，此件《观音大士》为大千先生上世纪30年代所作。
本幅《观音大士》虽然作于大千先生赴敦煌之前，但是开脸造型已丰腴圆润，面目庄严，衣纹用笔厚重，竹石笔墨及身后的光圈，大千先生都已处理得轻松、明快，本幅《观音大士》实为大千先生难得的观音作品。
原作于2009年北京匡时秋季拍卖，成交价为134,4万元人民币。
尚品绣坊在绣制此幅作品时，最难之处在于如何表现观音菩萨静默庄严的神态，由首席大师白桦女士亲自开脸绣制，虽只寥寥数针，便已把观音大士洞察十方，普度众生的崇高形象展现得淋漓尽致，观音大士身后之光轮，更是绣法中最有“禅意”之体现，千万针线皆为绣娘屏息静气一一完成，若心中无静，则瑕疵必现。
此作由尚品绣坊费时一年方完成此作。
GuanYin Goddess
It was a common understanding and general saying in the 50s to the 60s that in the modern era Chinese artistic world, the painting of Mr.Zhang’s GuanYin, Mr.Qi’s Prawn, and Mr.Xu’s horse were considered to be la crème de la crème. It was known that Mr.Zhang had painted numerous GuanYin pictures over his lifetime. This particular GuanYin picture was painted in the 1930s.
This painting was painted prior to Mr.Zhang’s trip to Dunhuang where he received many inspirations in his later art masterpieces. However, even without the latter inspirations, this particular painting had shown the the skills that Mr.Zhang possesed in his painting of GuanYin. This is still consider to be one of the best if not the best of Mr.Zhang’s GuanYin picture.
This painting was auctioned off in Beijing in 2009 for an amount of 13.44 million yuan.
The hardest part of doing the embroidery of this painting was the part of GuanYin’s serious demeanor while meditating. Master embroider expert Madam Baihua undertook the challenge herself. It took her only a short time to find out the secret to this challenge. The final embroidery masterpiece clearly shown the features that were depicted in the painting. This include the holy aura ring around GuanYin’s head.
It took a year to complete this masterpiece.