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Creatures from the Classic of Hills and Seas
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Description
Shao Fei studied guohua painting with her mother who was also an oil painter. From 1970-1976, she served in the army. In 1976 she joined the Beijing Painting Academy, and in 1979 and 1980 was active in the dissident Stars Group (Xingxing pai) with Wang Keping, Ma Desheng and the poet Bei Dao, whom she later married and with whom she lived in Davis, California. They returned to settle in Beijing in 1999.
Based on extract from Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (place of creation)
- Date
- 2004
- Artist/maker
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Shao Fei (born 1954) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 112 x 137 cm (height x width)
painting 90 x 117 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
- Accession no.
- LI1486.17
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Further reading
Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 41on p. 251, illus. p. 251 fig. 41
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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