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Apricot trees on a hillside in Hebei provincefront

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Apricot trees on a hillside in Hebei province

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  • Description

    This open-air sketch was drawn while Xu Bing was staying in southern Hebei province, working on his degree project. When he was working in the countryside in northern Hebei (1974–1977) he often sketched among a grove of apricot trees, and they feature in many of his landscript paintings.

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Hebei province (south) (place of creation)
    Asia › China › Hebei province (south) (subject)
    Date
    1980 - 1981
    Artist/maker
    Xu Bing (born 1955) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink on paper
    Dimensions
    15.5 x 20.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    drawn (image)
    Object type index
    visual representation › drawing
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Xu Bing's Studio.
    Accession no.
    LI2007.27

  • 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. 29 on p. 64, pp. 23, 25, 65, 66, illus. p. 64 fig. 29

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