The Pine and the Chrysanthemum Endure
Details
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Title
The Pine and the Chrysanthemum Endure
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Artist/maker
Chen Hengke (1876 - 1923) -
Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
probably 1901 - 1925 -
Material and technique
ink and slight colour on paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
101.6 x 38.1 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1969.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1969.63
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Catalogue text
Chen Hengke was born into a prominent literati family from Xiushui (then Yining) in Jiangxi province. As an artist he was particularly interested in the late Ming and early Qing Individualist painters, many of whose works he encountered in Japanese collections while he was a student in Tokyo. On his return he taught at Nantong in Jiangsu province and at Changsha in Hunan; later he was active in Peking, where he taught and where in 1920 he founded the Society for Chinese Painting. He helped establish Qi Baishi as a mainstream artist, and to further the acceptance of the Shanghai School painters.
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. 6 on p. 28, illus. p. 29 fig. 6
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