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The Archer Yifront

© The artist

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The Archer Yi

  • loan

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Europe › Netherlands › Holland (place of creation)
    Date
    1994
    Artist/maker
    Cai Guoqiang (born 1957) (artist)
    Material and technique
    wooden arrow and fired gunpowder on Japanese paper (washi)
    Dimensions
    frame 82 x 64.5 cm (height x width)
    painting 78 x 55 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    organic › vegetal › wood
    Technique index
    burnt
    Object type index
    arms/armour › ammunition › arrow,
    sample › gunpowder
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI2022.30

  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 1 on p. 218, illus. p.218 fig. I

Location

    • currently in research collection

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