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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.100
People
Chen Haiyan 陳海燕 ( Fushun, Liaoning province, China born 1955)
Title
Four Cats
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 四只猫
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1986
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/383947

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print; ink on pi zhi bast paper
Dimensions
image: H. 18.8 × W. 13 cm (7 3/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
paper: H. 33 × W. 23 cm (13 × 9 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: printed: 我随丽娅上楼梯，
    她叔家养了四个猫，
    她给我带来一个猫，一个笼。

    梦 一九八六一三十一

    DREAM: JANUARY 31, 1986
    I follow Liya up the stairs.
    Her uncle has four cats.
    She brought one far me,
    along with a cage.

    [Translation: Britta Erickson]
  • signature: in pencil: 10/30 梦1986年1月31日四只猫 陈海燕1986 [10/30 Dream: January 31, 1986, Four Cats; Chen Haiyan 1986]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Chen Haiyan, Hangzhou (1986-2024), sold [through Ink Studio, Beijing, China]; to Harvard Art Museums, 2024.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
10/30

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Johanna and Leslie Garfield Fund in Honor of Professor Roderick MacFarquhar
Accession Year
2024
Object Number
2024.100
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The coarsely cut woodblock print in black ink is enclosed within vertically oriented rectangle. The print depicts four cats running around a staircase where two figures are hiking up. There is a cage on the lower right corner. Chinese characters occupy left border of the print.

Publication History

  • Britta Erickson, Abby Chen, and Amjad Majid, Chen Haiyan: Carving the Unconscious (Seattle, 2016), pl. 1

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