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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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The Beauties' Spring Outing

  • Literature notes

    This painting by the self-taught Sichuan artist Peng Xiancheng illustrates a poem written in AD 753 by Du Fu, in which he criticises the extravagance of the Emperor's concubines' riding parties while the people suffered hardships. It is painted in the "boneless" style of Tang figure painting, comprising colour washes with little or no underlying linear structure.
  • Description

    This painting by the self-taught Sichuan artist Peng Xiancheng (b. 1941) illustrates the poem The Beauties’ Spring Outing, written by Tang dynasty poet Du Fu (AD 712-770) in AD 753. At this time the emperor’s favourite consort Yang Guifei and her cousin Yang Guozhong were in power. The poem criticises the extravagant riding parties thrown by Yang Guozhong’s two sisters whilst the people suffered hardships. The painting applies the ‘boneless’ style of Tang dynasty figure painting, comprising colour washes with little or no underlying linear structure.

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChinaSichuan province Chengdu (place of creation)
    Date
    1991
    Artist/maker
    Peng Xiancheng (born 1941) (artist)
    after Du Fu (AD 712 - 770) (author)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 156.9 x 77.8 x 2.2 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 120 x 58.7 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.
    EA1995.226
  • 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. 62 on p. 50, p. 9, illus. p. 51 fig. 62

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