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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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Mount Huang surrounded by clouds

  • Literature notes

    Liu Haisu was one of the leading reformers of traditional painting. He founded the Shanghai Art Academy in 1912 when he was sixteen, and later trained in Europe. The juxtaposition of strong splashed colours in this painting derives from his experience with oils, and they are here combined with traditional ink to portray the famous sacred mountain, Huangshan, which was a favoured subject of Liu Haisu in his later years.
  • Description

    The juxtaposition of strong splashed colours in this painting derives from Liu Haisu’s experience with oils when he trained in Europe. Mount Huang was his favoured subject in his later years. The inscription reads: ‘Painted by Liu Haisu at his tenth visit to Shixun gang [literally ‘Bridge of Stone Shoots’] on Mount Huang, at the age of 93.’

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChinaAnhui province Mount Huang (place of creation)
    AsiaChinaAnhui province Mount Huang (Shisungang Peak) (subject)
    Date
    1989 - 1990
    Artist/maker
    Liu Haisu (1896 - 1994) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 172.1 x 83.4 x 2.2 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 120 x 60.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
    Accession no.
    EA1995.216
  • 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. 52 on p. 45, pp. 8 & 12, illus. p. 44 fig. 52

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

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

    Liu Haisu was one of the leading reformers of traditional painting. He founded the Shanghai Art Academy in 1912 when he was sixteen, and later trained in Europe. The juxtaposition of strong splashed colours in this painting derives from his experience with oils, and they are here combined with traditional ink to portray the famous sacred mountain, Huangshan, which was a favoured subject of Liu Haisu in his later years.
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