Ode to the Prairie
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WU GUANZHONG (1919-2010)
Ode to the Prairie
Scroll, mounted and framed, coloured sketch on paper
28.5 x 48 cm. (11 1/4 x 18 7/8 in.)
Inscribed and signed
Dated 1981
PROVENANCE:
Lot 593, 7 October 2006, Fine Chinese Paintings, Sotheby’s Hong Kong.
EXHIBITED:
San Francisco, USA, Chinese Culture Foundation, Wu Guanzhong: A Contemporary Chinese Artist, June 10 to August 19, 1989.
The exhibition also toured to the following cities:
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.
Herbert F. Jonson Museum, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
LITERATURE:
Sketches by Wu Guanzhong, L’Atelier Productions Pte Ltd., Singapore, May 1993, pp.188-189, pl.90.
Selected Works of Wu Guanzhong, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House and Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, January 1990, p.95.
Ode to the Prairie
Scroll, mounted and framed, coloured sketch on paper
28.5 x 48 cm. (11 1/4 x 18 7/8 in.)
Inscribed and signed
Dated 1981
PROVENANCE:
Lot 593, 7 October 2006, Fine Chinese Paintings, Sotheby’s Hong Kong.
EXHIBITED:
San Francisco, USA, Chinese Culture Foundation, Wu Guanzhong: A Contemporary Chinese Artist, June 10 to August 19, 1989.
The exhibition also toured to the following cities:
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.
Herbert F. Jonson Museum, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
LITERATURE:
Sketches by Wu Guanzhong, L’Atelier Productions Pte Ltd., Singapore, May 1993, pp.188-189, pl.90.
Selected Works of Wu Guanzhong, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House and Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, January 1990, p.95.
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