Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A catalogue of the Ashmolean collection of Chinese paintings by Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 2000).
Publications online: 222 objects
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Mountain landscape with clouds
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Literature notes
Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-chien), born in Neijiang, Sichuan province, is one of the great figures in twentieth century Chinese painting. In his late teens he spent two years in Japan studying textile dyeing and weaving, then moved to Shanghai to continue studies in painting and calligraphy. He spent the rest of the decade in Shanghai, and the 1930s in Peking. From 1941 to 1943 he studied the Tang (618-906) dynasty Buddhist cave murals at Dunhuang, Gansu, making hundreds of copies, and in 1952 he moved to India after a brief period in Hong Kong. From 1952 to 1976 he lived in South America and in the United States, and the remainder of his life was spent in Taiwan. Zhang Daqian was a very skilled painter, who developed an innovative style at the same time as he was producing copies of works by early masters (several of which are in public collections), but always working within the traditions of ink painting. -
Description
The artist Zhang Daqian inscribes: ‘At Leidongping [of Mount E’mei in Sichuan province], there are cliffs of over ten miles high from which people dare not look down. It is said that the Leifu Cave would shake when people speak, so in the old days there was a metal tablet requiring silence.’
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Gansu province › Dunhuang (place of creation)Asia › China › Sichuan province › Mount Emei (subject)
- Date
- 10 February 1941
- Artist/maker
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Zhang Daqian (1899 - 1983) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 200 x 58.1 cm approx. (height x width)
painting 127.2 x 41.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1967.
- Accession no.
- EA1967.131
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 165 on p. 189, illus. p. 189 fig. 165
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-chien), born in Neijiang, Sichuan province, is one of the great figures in twentieth century Chinese painting. In his late teens he spent two years in Japan studying textile dyeing and weaving, then moved to Shanghai to continue studies in painting and calligraphy. He spent the rest of the decade in Shanghai, and the 1930s in Peking. From 1941 to 1943 he studied the Tang (618-906) dynasty Buddhist cave murals at Dunhuang, Gansu, making hundreds of copies, and in 1952 he moved to India after a brief period in Hong Kong. From 1952 to 1976 he lived in South America and in the United States, and the remainder of his life was spent in Taiwan. Zhang Daqian was a very skilled painter, who developed an innovative style at the same time as he was producing copies of works by early masters (several of which are in public collections), but always working within the traditions of ink painting.
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