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Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sullivan Collection

(from 24th Jul 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)

Explore this important collection of Chinese contemporary art formed by scholar Michael Sullivan.

Detail of Red, yellow, and black abstraction, Taiwan, 1995, by Chen Zhengxiong (Museum no. LI1486.8)
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Black, green, and grey abstract landscape

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  • Description

    Yang Yanping is a painter. She graduated in architecture from Qinghua University, after which she taught industrial design and created historical paintings for the Museum of Chinese History. She is a member of the Beijing Academy of Painting. In 1976 she settled in Long Island, New York, with her husband, the painter Zeng Shanqing. She has exhibited widely, separately and with her husband, in the US, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Europe.

    Based on extract from Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009)

  • Details

    Associated place
    Date
    1996
    Artist/maker
    Yang Yanping (born 1934) (artist)
    Material and technique
    coloured ink on rice paper
    Dimensions
    frame 81 x 86 cm (height x width)
    painting 61 x 81 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI1486.20
  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 56 on p. 262, illus. p. 263 fig. 56

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    • currently in research collection

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