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Hillside with rocks and a clump of trees
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Description
This composition is similar to many of the drawings Xu Bing made of scenery north of the Great Wall around the village of Shouliang Gou, where he lived between 1974 and 1977 as an urban youth sent to the countryside for re-education. Those drawings, like Jean-François Millet’s sketch here, were also on unconventional papers; materials were scarce, and Xu Bing used wrapping paper from the commune supplies.
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Details
- Associated place
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Europe › France › Seine-et-Marne › Barbizon (possible place of creation)
- Date
- 1866 - 1867
- Artist/maker
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Jean-François Millet (1814 - 1875) (artist)
- Material and technique
- recto: paper, printed verso: graphite, pen and brown ink, touched with green and yellow crayon
- Dimensions
- sheet 10.9 x 15.4 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Dr Grete Ring, 1954.
- Accession no.
- WA1954.70.33
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 20 on p. 55, pp. 16, 52, 155, illus. p. 55 fig. 20
Past Exhibition
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Location
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- Western Art Print Room
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