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An image of Portrait of Chen Lang by HE Jianguo

HE Jianguo

(China 1951– )

Title
Portrait of Chen Lang
Place of origin
China
Year
1985
Media category
Painting
Materials used
hanging scroll; ink and colour on paper
Dimensions

140.0 x 80.0cm image; 251.0 x 78.0 x 86.0cm scroll

Signature & date
Signed u.l., in Chinese, inscribed in black ink "… Jianguo in 1985", with seven seals of the artist.
Credit
Purchased 1993
Accession number
325.1993
Copyright
© HE Jianguo
Location
Not on display
Further information

'The idiosyncratic and self-taught Beijing artist He Jianguo has brought both new life and new opportunity to the great tradition of Chinese brush and ink painting. A fan of Western artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Cezanne and Kandinsky, He Jianguo seeks to instill his own work with the breadth and opportunity of those Western artists whose work he so admires. His brushwork and sense of composition are both free and novel in the Chinese experience. The inscription states that this scroll was 'painted by He Jianguo in 1985 on the occasion of [his friend] Mr. Chen's sixtieth birthday'.'

‘The Asian Collections: Art Gallery of New South Wales’. pg.174.
© 2003 Trustees, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Bibliography (2)

Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 'The Shanghai School and Modern Painting', Domain, 2003, 174 (colour illus.). Illustration in catalogue is upside down.

Claire Roberts, New Art From China - Post-Mao Product 1992, Sydney, 1992, not paginated. Catalogue no: 1 (illus. colour)

Exhibition history (2)

New Art from China:

Chinese New Literati Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Aug 1997–05 Oct 1997