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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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Egrets Rest on the Bank in the Autumn

  • Literature notes

    Lu Yanshao is credited with several innovative techniques in landscape painting, and the use of dark and pale wet ink together in the background of the present composition is an example. The restlessness that characterises his style is evident even in this simple album leaf.
  • Description

    Lu Yanshao was from Jiading in Shanghai. He studied traditional painting and calligraphy in Wuxi Art College, Jiangsu province in 1927. He was also an acquaintance of the artist and connoisseur Wu Hufan, with whom he travelled the country. After 1949 Lu Yanshao became a professional painter in Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1979 taught in Zhejiang College of Fine Arts. He is credited with several innovative techniques in landscape painting, such as the use of dark and pale wet ink together, as seen in the background of this present composition.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    AsiaChinaJiangsu province Lake Tai (subject)
    Date
    May 1978
    Artist/maker
    Lu Yanshao (1909 - 1993) (artist)
    Associated people
    Comrade Pingfeng (active c. 1978) (recipient)
    Material and technique
    ink on paper; mounted on layers of paper, framed with ling silk pieces; backed with paper scroll
    Dimensions
    frame 57.5 x 84 x 1.9 cm (height x width x depth)
    mount 53.6 x 80.5 cm sight size (height x width)
    painting 34 x 46 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.
    EA1995.220
  • 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. 56 on p. 47, illus. p. 47 fig. 56

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