Discover the mastery of the Lingnan School of painting in China over the last 200 years.
Guan Shanyue was a Lingnan School artist from Guangzhou who achieved national prominence and painted landscapes from all over China. The mangrove tree in this painting, which is a tropical plant that can be found along the south China coast, is painted in traditional style with dense ink. The bright blue dots are typical of the artist’s use of that colour in the late 1980s.
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. 27 on p. 31, pp. 12 & 39, illus. p. 31 fig. 27
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