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.
River landscape
- loan
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Description
This small handscroll demonstrates the splashed ink-and-colour technique that Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) used widely in his landscape paintings after the late 1950s. The technique derives from the traditional mogu ‘boneless’ blue and green landscape style of earlier periods, and at the same time indicates Zhang’s encounter with abstract art in the west in the 1960s. Another splashed ink painting displayed here, the Blue and green landscape [LI2022.62], was painted in the same year. The inscription reads ‘[I] Painted this in the summer of the sixty-fourth year [of the Republic, 1975]. Wishing Madam Khoan [Sullivan, 1919-2003] peace.’
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Details
- Associated place
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North America › north America › United States of America › California (place of creation)
- Date
- 1975
- Artist/maker
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Zhang Daqian (1899 - 1983) (artist)Zhang Daqian (1899 - 1983) (calligrapher)
- Associated people
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Khoan Sullivan (1919 - 2003) (recipient)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- painting 11.2 x 45.2 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
- Accession no.
- LI2022.400
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Further reading
Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 154 on p. 155, illus. p.155 fig. II.154
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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