Discover the mastery of the Lingnan School of painting in China over the last 200 years.
Zhao Shao’ang was one of the most prominent pupils of the Lingnan School and therefore his work is representative of the style. This couplet is executed in his distinctive angular style. The inscription reads ‘The beauty has been forgotten in years, soldiers sacrificed in dust.’
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 September-1 December 1996, Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vainker, Shelagh (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996), no. 119 on p. 88, p. 12, illus. p. 88 fig. 119, right
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