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Details
- Place where the work was made
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China
- Date
- 1985
- Media categories
- Scroll , Painting
- Materials used
- hanging scroll; ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 140.0 x 80.0 cm image; 251.0 x 78.0 x 86.0 cm scroll
- Signature & date
Signed u.l., in Chinese, inscribed in black ink "… Jianguo in 1985", with seven seals of the artist.
- Credit
- Purchased 1993
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 325.1993
- Copyright
- © HE Jianguo
- Artist information
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He Jianguo
Works in the collection
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About
'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.
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Places
Where the work was made
China
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
New Art from China, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Sep 1992–25 Oct 1992
New Art from China, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 07 Dec 1992–31 Jan 1993
New Art from China, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 26 Feb 1993–18 Apr 1993
New Art from China, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, 06 May 1993–05 Jun 1993
Chinese New Literati Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Aug 1997–05 Oct 1997
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'The Shanghai School and Modern Painting', Sydney, 2003, 174 (colour illus.). Illustration in catalogue is upside down.
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Claire Roberts, New Art From China - Post-Mao Product, Sydney, 1992, not paginated. Catalogue no: 1 (illus. colour)
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