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Misty landscape
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Description
Though born in Guangdong province, the artist Kan Tai-keung moved to Hong Kong at the age of fifteen. His use of brightly coloured washes to depict traditional landscapes is typical of the synthetic style of eastern and western painting that developed there.
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1991
- Artist/maker
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Kan Tai-keung (born 1942) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 90.3 x 132.9 x 3 cm (height x width x depth)
painting 73.6 x 97.6 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
- Accession no.
- EA1995.203
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 September-1 December 1996, Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vainker, Shelagh (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996), no. 38 on p. 37, illus. p. 37 fig. 38
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Lingnan Masters: South Chinese Painting in Transition 1800–2000
(from 6th Aug 2013 until 23rd Feb 2014)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Though born in Guangdong province, Kan moved to Hong Kong at the age of fifteen and his use of brightly coloured washes to depict traditional landscape forms is typical of the synthetic style of eastern and western painting that has emerged there.
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