Discover the mastery of the Lingnan School of painting in China over the last 200 years.
Though born in Guangdong province, the artist Kan Tai-keung moved to Hong Kong at the age of fifteen. His use of brightly coloured washes to depict traditional landscapes is typical of the synthetic style of eastern and western painting that developed there.
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. 38 on p. 37, illus. p. 37 fig. 38
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