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Landscape with clouds and trees

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  • Description

    Huang Zhongfang (born 1943) was born in Shanghai to a family with a great interest in, and a substantial collection of Chinese painting. The family moved to Hong Kong in 1948, where Huang studied painting under Gu Qingyao (1901-1978), who had been his mother’s teacher in Shanghai. After studying in London, he returned to Hong Kong and founded the Hanart Gallery. Later he returned to painting full-time.

    This handscroll was given to Khoan (1919-2003) and Michael Sullivan (1916-2013) when they visited Hong Kong in 1969, and is inscribed by Huang and his father Huang Baoxi (active 20th century), who was a collector. The inscription added by Zhongfang reads ‘Clouds are far, reminiscence is deep in my heart. Painted in January of a jiyou year in Youdeyan Studio.’ The inscription added by his father reads ‘[I] asked my son Zhongfang to write this small scroll, inscribed with a poem by Tao Qian [died AD 427], for Mr and Ms Sullivan to correct.’

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China › Hong Kong (place of creation)
    Date
    1969
    Artist/maker
    Harold Wong Chung-Fong (born 1943) (artist)
    Harold Wong Chung-Fong (born 1943) (calligrapher)
    Huang Baoxi (active 20th century) (calligrapher)
    after Tao Yuanming (died AD 427) (author)
    Associated people
    Khoan Sullivan (1919 - 2003) (recipient)
    Michael Sullivan (1916 - 2013) (recipient)
    Material and technique
    ink and slight colour on paper
    Dimensions
    painting 11 x 128 cm (height x width)
    mount 14.2 cm (height)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    drawn (image) › line drawing › brush drawing
    Object type index
    visual representation › scroll › handscroll,
    visual representation › painting,
    communications equipment › art/writing equipment › scroll › handscroll,
    visual representation › calligraphy
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI2022.344

  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 121 on p. 134, illus. p.134 fig. II.121

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Location

    • currently in research collection

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