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Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

A catalogue of the Ashmolean collection of Chinese paintings by Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 2000).

Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Shelagh Vainker

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  • Literature notes

    Li Juduan was from Xinhui in Guangdong province. He studied Western painting while in Peking as a law student, and on his return to Guangzhou practised as a lawyer. He was a traditional ink painter, and calligrapher, and became head of the art college in Guangzhou. At the end of the Sino-Japanese War he moved to Hong Kong, where he and Lui Shou-kwan (q.v.) later became acquainted. The above paintings are signed Li Yanshan but the inscriptions are all signed Kang Hou or Feng Kang Hou (b. 1899, Guangdong) and most bear his seal. Luofo is in the north of Li Juduan's native province of Guangdong, close to the border with Jiangxi province, and it is possible that the allusion is to this group of twelve fan paintings. All twelve bear the same studio seal.
  • Description

    Li Yanshan (1898-1961), also known as Li Juduan, was a traditional calligrapher and ink painter from Guangdong province. He was head of the art college in Guangzhou but in the late 1940s he moved to Hong Kong.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    AsiaChinaGuangdong province Guangzhou (possible place of creation)
    Asia Macau (possible place of creation)
    AsiaChina Guangdong province (subject)
    Date
    1939
    Artist/maker
    Li Yanshan (1898 - 1961) (artist)
    Feng Kanghou (1901 - 1983) (scribe)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    53.3 cm (width)
    Material index
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased with the assistance of the Lady Cash Bequest, 1965.
    Accession no.
    EA1965.37
  • Further reading

    Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 70 on p. 90, illus. p. 91 fig. 70

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  • Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Shelagh Vainker

    Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Li Juduan was from Xinhui in Guangdong province. He studied Western painting while in Peking as a law student, and on his return to Guangzhou practised as a lawyer. He was a traditional ink painter, and calligrapher, and became head of the art college in Guangzhou. At the end of the Sino-Japanese War he moved to Hong Kong, where he and Lui Shou-kwan (q.v.) later became acquainted. The above paintings are signed Li Yanshan but the inscriptions are all signed Kang Hou or Feng Kang Hou (b. 1899, Guangdong) and most bear his seal. Luofo is in the north of Li Juduan's native province of Guangdong, close to the border with Jiangxi province, and it is possible that the allusion is to this group of twelve fan paintings. All twelve bear the same studio seal.
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