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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.103
People
Chen Haiyan 陳海燕 ( Fushun, Liaoning province, China born 1955)
Title
A String of Prayer Beads
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 一串佛珠
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1986
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/383961

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. 33 × W. 23 cm (13 × 9 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • signature: in pencil: 10/30 梦1986年2月7日一串佛珠 陈海燕1986 [10/30 Dream: February 7, 1986, A String of Prayer Beads; Chen Haiyan 1986]
  • inscription: printed: 梦 一九八六二七

    我和父亲走在稻田边的小路上。
    我怕蛇，父亲说没事，
    蛇都抬起了无精打采的头，
    可它不咬人。
    父亲脖子上挂一串佛珠，
    他被蛇咬了。


    DREAM: FEBRUARY 7, 1986
    I walk with my father along a
    path beside the rice paddy.
    I am afraid of snakes, but he
    tells me that it's okay;
    the snakes may raise their
    listless heads, but they
    won't bite us.
    Father wears a string of
    prayer beads, but he is
    still bitten by a snake.

    [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
2024.103
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 two figures walking down a path. On each side of the path there are grids of abstract lines. Chinese characters occupy lower half of the print.

Publication History

  • Britta Erickson, Abby Chen, and Amjad Majid, Chen Haiyan: Carving the Unconscious (Seattle, 2016), pl. 5

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