XU Lele
(1955– )
- Title
- Enjoying summer
- Place of origin
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China
- Year
- 1994
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- hanging scroll; ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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127.0 x 33.0cm
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated u.r., in Chinese, inscribed in black ink, “the Summer of the year of Jiaxu (1994), Le…”. Signed c.r., in Chinese, stamped in red ink "Le [artist's seal]”. Signed c.r., in Chinese, stamped in red ink "Xu [artist's seal]”.
- Credit
- Purchased 1997
- Accession number
- 364.1997
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Xu Lele brings the great tradition of literati painting in China into a humorous, almost satirical, contemporary idiom. The composition is drawn from the vocabulary of Ming and Qing dynasty court and literati painting styles, and yet it evokes a sense of the modern in its colour, humour and gentle satire.
‘The Asian Collections: Art Gallery of New South Wales’, pg.175.
© 2003 Trustees, Art Gallery of New South Wales- Bibliography (1)
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'The Shanghai School and Modern Painting', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 175 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (1)
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Chinese New Literati Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 23 Aug 1997–05 Oct 1997.
