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Three Heavenly Peaks
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Description
Li Yanshan (1898-1961), also known as Li Juduan, was a traditional calligrapher and ink painter from Guangdong province. He was head of the art college in Guangzhou but in the late 1940s he moved to Hong Kong.
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- Associated place
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Asia › China › Guangdong province › Guangzhou (possible place of creation)
- Date
- 1939
- Artist/maker
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Li Yanshan (1898 - 1961) (artist)Feng Kanghou (1901 - 1983) (scribe)
- Material and technique
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 40.6 x 55.9 cm (height x width)
23.5 x 53.34 cm sight size (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Lady Cash Bequest, 1965.
- Accession no.
- EA1965.36
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 69 on p. 90, illus. p. 90 fig. 69
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Li Juduan was from Xinhui in Guangdong province. He studied Western painting while in Peking as a law student, and on his return to Guangzhou practised as a lawyer. He was a traditional ink painter, and calligrapher, and became head of the art college in Guangzhou. At the end of the Sino-Japanese War he moved to Hong Kong, where he and Lui Shou-kwan (q.v.) later became acquainted. The above paintings are signed Li Yanshan but the inscriptions are all signed Kang Hou or Feng Kang Hou (b. 1899, Guangdong) and most bear his seal. Luofo is in the north of Li Juduan's native province of Guangdong, close to the border with Jiangxi province, and it is possible that the allusion is to this group of twelve fan paintings. All twelve bear the same studio seal.
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