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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Beijing
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China
- Cultural origin
- China
- Date
- 2017
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- ink and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 52.7 x 44.0 cm image; 63.0 x 47.5 cm mount
- Signature & date
Signed and dated u.l., in Chinese, ink "Lao Shu [ 老樹 ]... early autumn of 2017 [ 丁酉初秋 ] ... can't sleep, paint this painting to record it [夜不能寐制畫記之]”.
- Credit
- Edward and Goldie Sternberg Chinese art purchase fund and funds provided by Edwin WS Mok and Bing Wu 2018
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 84.2018
- Copyright
- © Shuyong Liu
- Artist information
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Liu Shuyong
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About
Liu Shuyong, known also as Lao Shu, is a much-admired photographer and painter as well as a prolific writer and influential scholar. His paintings carry a sense of the absurd in our modern lives of endless activity and pursuit of material things. It is a humour carried through engaging images that draw on Chinese heritage. The characters in his paintings express emotions from agony to ecstasy and the poems accompanying them are often irreverent.