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Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript

(from 28th Feb until 19th May 2013)

Explore the innovative landscape work of one of China’s most renowned contemporary artists.

Detail of Family Plots, by Xu Bing, Beijing, 1988 (Museum no. LI2007.61)
Interior with a barrel and pitcher and a woman workingfront

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Interior with a barrel and pitcher and a woman working

  • Description

    Constant Troyon was represented in the Beijing 1978 exhibition of French painting by two works, one of which depicted forestry – a subject Xu Bing showed in many of his early prints and drawings. Both artists preferred landscape to figures. This drawing demonstrates another common preference, in its depiction of the simple objects that are part of everyday life.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Europe › France (place of creation)
    Europe › France › Paris Department › Paris (probable place of creation)
    Date
    1810 - 1865
    Artist/maker
    Constant Troyon (1810 - 1865) (artist)
    Material and technique
    charcoal on brown cartridge paper
    Dimensions
    sheet 24 x 32 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    organic › vegetal › charcoal
    Technique index
    drawn (image)
    Object type index
    visual representation › drawing
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased with the assistance of the Blakiston Fund, 1996.
    Accession no.
    WA1996.422

  • Further reading

    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. 23 on p. 58, pp. 16, 155, illus. p. 58 fig. 23

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