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Title
Portrait of Chen Lang
1985
Artist
He Jianguo
China
1951 -
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.
© 2003 Trustees, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Details
Date
1985
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
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He Jianguo
Portrait of Chen Lang
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Where the work was made
China
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Exhibition history
New Art from China:
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 29 Sep 1992–25 Oct 1992
- Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane 07 Dec 1992–31 Jan 1993
- Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat 26 Feb 1993–18 Apr 1993
- 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
Referenced in 2 publications
Bibliography
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.
Claire Roberts, New Art From China - Post-Mao Product, Sydney, 1992, not paginated. Catalogue no: 1 (illus. colour)