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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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Reading

  • Literature notes

    This sparse and simple composition is typical of Nie Ou's work. She has written that during the Cultural Revolution she was sent from Beijing, where she as a student, to live in a small village in the north China plains, and that the simplicity and the hardship of life there have inspired much of her painting.
  • Description

    Nie Ou is a female painter at the Beijing Painting Academy. This sparse and simple composition is typical of her work. ‘Reading’ is one of her favourite subjects to paint, in particular reading in an isolated environment. Both the subject and the style are probably inspired by the simplicity and the hardship of life in the countryside when she was sent to be a ‘re-educated youth’ during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    AsiaChinaHebei province Beijing (probable place of creation)
    Date
    1948 - 1995
    Artist/maker
    Nie Ou (born 1948) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink and slight colour on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 83.5 x 83.5 x 2 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 67 x 67 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.
    EA1995.223
  • 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. 59 on p. 49, illus. p. 49 fig. 59

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