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).
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Calligraphy by Cheng Shifa
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Literature notes
The highly colourful bird and flower paintings are loosely painted in the traditional mineral and plant pigments combined with ink favoured by Cheng Shifa. In the preface to a volume of bird and flower paintings published around the time this album was painted, Cheng describes the genre as a supplement to figure painting, which has always been his principal concern. -
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- Associated place
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Asia › China › Shanghai province (place of creation)
- Date
- 1978
- Artist/maker
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Cheng Shifa (1921 - 2007) (calligrapher)
- Material and technique
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 50.7 x 68.3 cm (height x width)
page 46.6 x 53.1 cm (height x width)
painting 34 x 42 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.
- EA1995.175.a
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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. 10 on p. 21
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The highly colourful bird and flower paintings are loosely painted in the traditional mineral and plant pigments combined with ink favoured by Cheng Shifa. In the preface to a volume of bird and flower paintings published around the time this album was painted, Cheng describes the genre as a supplement to figure painting, which has always been his principal concern.
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