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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.102
People
Chen Haiyan 陳海燕 ( Fushun, Liaoning province, China born 1955)
Title
A Cézanne Catalogue
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 塞尚画册
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1986
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/383960

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print; ink on pi zhi bast paper
Dimensions
image: H. 19 × W. 13 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/8 in.)
paper: H. 32 × W. 23 cm (12 5/8 × 9 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • signature: in pencil: 10/30 梦1986年2月6日塞尚画册 陈海燕1986 [10/30 Dream: February 6, 1986, A Cézanne Catalogue; Chen Haiyan 1986]
  • inscription: printed:

    梦 一九八六二六

    塞尚的画册在我的手推车中放着，
    有两只狗扑向我，
    一条狗咬了我，
    不十分痛，
    但比猫咬的要痛的多。
    DREAM: FEBRUARY 6, 1986
    A catalogue of Cézanne's art
    is lying in my wheelbarrow.
    Two dogs leap at me,
    and one of them bites me.
    It doesn't entirely hurt,
    but it's still a lot more painful
    than a cat's bite.

    [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
2024.102
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 and two dogs. Below them, there is a wheelbarrow. A book is on top of it. Chinese characters occupy lower right half of the print.

Publication History

  • Britta Erickson, Abby Chen, and Amjad Majid, Chen Haiyan: Carving the Unconscious (Seattle, 2016), pl. 3

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