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Michael Sullivan: A Life of Art and Friendship

(from 11th Mar until 14th Sep 2014)

A commemorative exhibition in memory of Michael Sullivan, leading scholar of Chinese art.

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Market in Qinghaifront

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Market in Qinghai

  • loan

  • Description

    Wu Zuoren (1908-1999) was a native of Anhui province. After studying art in Shanghai, he spent the years 1930 to 1935 in France and Brussels, returning to become a lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts in National Central University, Nanjing. Wu sought refuge in west China during the Second World War (1939-1945) and made Chengdu, Sichuan province, the base from which he ventured out into the borderlands. This oil sketch was made on the spot in a market in the Qinghai province and given to Khoan (1919-2003) and Michael Sullivan (1916-2013) in 1943 or 1944. The artist produced a large-scale version of this painting on Khoan and Michael’s verandah in Chengdu in 1944. It is now in the National Art Museum of China.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Qinghai province (place of creation)
    Asia › China › Qinghai province (subject)
    Date
    1943
    Artist/maker
    Wu Zuoren (1908 - 1997) (artist)
    Associated people
    Khoan Sullivan (1919 - 2003) (recipient)
    Michael Sullivan (1916 - 2013) (recipient)
    Material and technique
    oil on plywood board
    Dimensions
    frame 49.4 x 56 x 4.2 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 29 x 38.4 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    organic › vegetal › wood › plywood
    Technique index
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting › oil painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI2022.59

  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 124 on p. 136, illus. p.137 fig. II.124

    Sullivan, Michael, Art and Artists of Twentieth Century China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), pl. 24

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    • currently in research collection

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