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Little boy on a buffalo

  • loan
  • Description

    Dong Kejun is a self-taught wood-engraver and painter, who spent many years in Guizhou, where he became Chairman of the Chinese Art Association in the province. His early work of the 1960s and 1970s is typical of the Socialist romantic realism of that period. He later settled in Chongqing, where he developed a powerful style entirely his own.

    Based on extract from Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009)

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChinaSichuan province Chongqing (place of creation)
    Date
    1998 - 2008
    Artist/maker
    Dong Kejun (born 1939) (artist)
    Dong Kejun (born 1939) (calligrapher)
    Material and technique
    acrylic and ink on paper
    Dimensions
    painting 71 x 71 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI1486.10
  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 13 on p. 229, illus. p. 229 fig. 13

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    • currently in research collection

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