Waterfall in a High Mountain
Details
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Title
Waterfall in a High Mountain
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Artist/maker
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Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
June 1933 -
Material and technique
ink and colour on paper
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
mount 173 x 68 cm (height x width)
painting 68 x 64.5 cm (height x width)
along roller 76.7 cm (length)
rolled 6.1 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1996.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1996.129
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Catalogue text
The only recorded artist named Gu Tao was a pupil of the monk painter Dao Cun, who was in turn a follower of Zha Shibiao (q.v.) and by whom a landscape album dated 1709 survives in Japan. However, the name is almost certainly a pseudonym, and may have been used by a later painter. The figure in this painting compares closely with those in the landscapes of Fu Baoshi; given Fu's veneration of the Qing Individualist painter Shi Tao (Dao Ji), and the fact that his assumed name Baoshi means 'embracing Shi (Tao)', the possibility that this is a work by Fu Baoshi should not be ruled out. The seal of Ni Tian (1855-1919) (q.v.) remains anomalous.
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. 31 on p. 55, illus. p. 55 fig. 31
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