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Man ploughing and another sowing

  • Description

    Xu Bing has said, in reference to the late 1970s, ‘My greatest feelings at that time were for the French artist Millet and the Chinese artist Gu Yuan. Both dealt with the peasantry’. Jean-François Millet’s composition here is similar to the Russian artist Ilya Repin’s drawing of Tolstoy ploughing his neighbour’s field, an image Xu Bing may have seen in a book of Repin’s drawings given to him as a school student.

  • Details

    Associated place
    EuropeFrance Seine-et-Marne Barbizon (place of creation)
    EuropeFrance Seine-et-Marne Barbizon (subject)
    Date
    1849 - 1852
    Artist/maker
    Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875) (artist)
    Material and technique
    black crayon on wove paper
    Dimensions
    sheet 14.5 x 21.2 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Percy Moore Turner, 1951.
    Accession no.
    WA1951.22
  • Further reading

    Lloyd, Christopher; Ekelhart, Christine, Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolours, Drawings (Vienna: Albertina, 2012), cat. fig. 12, p. 50, p. 51

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 17 on p. 52, pp. 16, 52, 155, illus. p. 52 fig. 17

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    • Western Art Print Room

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