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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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Roses in a glass vase

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  • Description

    Luo Er’chun (born 1930) graduated from the Suzhou Academy in 1951 as one of the last pupils of the French trained oil painter Yan Wenliang (1893-1988). After working in the People’s Fine Art Publishing House, he became a professor in the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1964. By the early 1980s, he was already painting canvases of rural life that seemed to sweep away the dust of decades of conventional Chinese oil painting. They feature vibrant colour and usually demonstrate echoes of post-impressionism, with the figures often stylized or distorted. This painting was a gift from the artist to Michael Sullivan (1916-2013) in 2009.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (place of creation)
    Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (probable place of creation)
    Date
    May 2006
    Artist/maker
    Luo Er'chun (born 1930) (artist)
    Associated people
    Michael Sullivan (1916 - 2013) (recipient)
    Material and technique
    oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    painting 70 x 50 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › textile › canvas,
    oil
    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.
    LI2022.255

  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 30 on p. 242, illus. p.243 fig. 30

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    • currently in research collection

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