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Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

A catalogue of Chinese paintings from the Reyes Collection by Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 1996).

Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Shelagh Vainker

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Landscape in early summer

  • Literature notes

    Huang Qiuyuan from Jiangxi devoted himself to painting only after retiring from a banking career, and it was not until some years after his death that his work achieved recognition. The tight composition of this work, its lengthy inscription and fibrous yellow paper are all typical features of his paintings.
  • Description

    Huang Qiuyuan, from Jiangxi province, retired from a career in banking and became a painter, although it was not until some years after his death that his work achieved recognition. The tight composition of this work, its lengthy inscription, and fibrous yellow paper are all typical features of his paintings.

    The inscription is a poem probably composed by the artist: ‘The stone cliff is as blue as the sky, leading the broken clouds; green plants are hanging down like the snake-pattern seal script; there are households living in this remote Zhongnan mountain; who would like to find the hermit who lives in the forest near the spring?’

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChinaJiangxi province Nanchang (place of creation)
    Date
    1974
    Artist/maker
    Huang Qiuyuan (1914 - 1979) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 177 x 84.9 x 2 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 132.8 x 68.3 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
    Accession no.
    EA1995.197
  • Further reading

    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. 31 on p. 33, illus. p. 33 fig. 31

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