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Waterfall in a High Mountain
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- Date
- June 1933
- Artist/maker
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Gu Tao (active c. 1933) (artist)attributed to Fu Baoshi (1904 - 1965) (artist)Gu Tao (active c. 1933) (calligrapher)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 173 x 68 cm (height x width)
painting 68 x 64.5 cm (height x width)
along roller 76.7 cm (length)
rolled 6.1 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1996.
- Accession no.
- EA1996.129
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 31 on p. 55, illus. p. 55 fig. 31
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
The only recorded artist named Gu Tao was a pupil of the monk painter Dao Cun, who was in turn a follower of Zha Shibiao (q.v.) and by whom a landscape album dated 1709 survives in Japan. However, the name is almost certainly a pseudonym, and may have been used by a later painter. The figure in this painting compares closely with those in the landscapes of Fu Baoshi; given Fu's veneration of the Qing Individualist painter Shi Tao (Dao Ji), and the fact that his assumed name Baoshi means 'embracing Shi (Tao)', the possibility that this is a work by Fu Baoshi should not be ruled out. The seal of Ni Tian (1855-1919) (q.v.) remains anomalous.
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