Fish Playing in the Depths
Details
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Title
Fish Playing in the Depths
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Artist/maker
Wang Qingfang (1901 - 1956) -
Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
1938 -
Material and technique
ink and colour on paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
25.4 x 101.6 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Lady Cash Bequest, 1965.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1965.65
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Catalogue text
Wang Qingfang spent his life in Peking, where he studied at the Academy of Painting and was a pupil of both Qi Baishi and Xu Beihong. His work was included in the 1953 National Painting Exhibition; fish seem to have been a favoured subject for his paintings.
In: Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000)
Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 128 on p. 146, illus. p. 147 fig. 128
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