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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.101
People
Chen Haiyan 陳海燕 ( Fushun, Liaoning province, China born 1955)
Title
Ghost
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 鬼
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1986
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/383959

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
  • signature: in pencil: 10/30 梦1986年2月4日鬼 陈海燕1986 [10/30 Dream: February 4, 1986, Ghost; Chen Haiyan 1986]
  • inscription: printed: 我躺在床上望着天顶，
    那儿有二个猴子一样。
    我见到鬼，
    我吓的一动也不动。

    梦 一九八六二四



    DREAM: FEBRUARY 4, 1986
    I lie in bed looking up at the ceiling.
    It looks just like two monkeys.
    I feel like I've seen a ghost
    and am paralyzed with fear.

    [Translation: Britta Erickson]

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
2024.101
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 a figure laying in bed and above his head, there are two monsters with a monkey face and worm-like body. Chinese characters occupy between the figure and the monsters.

Publication History

  • Britta Erickson, Abby Chen, and Amjad Majid, Chen Haiyan: Carving the Unconscious (Seattle, 2016), pl. 2

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