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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.104
People
Chen Haiyan 陳海燕 ( Fushun, Liaoning province, China born 1955)
Title
Golden Lion
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 金色狮
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1986
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/383962

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7日金色狮 陈海燕1986 [10/30 Dream: February 7, 1986, Golden Lion; Chen Haiyan 1986]
  • inscription: printed: 梦 一九八六二七

    妹妹骑一头金黄色大狮，
    头上的毛在闪闪发亮。
    把假面揭下来时，
    原来她骑的是一头驴。
    我想，我可不敢骑驴。


    DREAM: FEBRUARY 7, 1986
    My little sister is riding a big golden
    lion with a shining mane.
    When its mask is taken off,
    it turns out that she is riding
    a donkey.
    I think to myself,
    “I sure don't dare ride a donkey."

    [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
2024.104
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 looking up to a big cat, on which another smaller figure is riding. There is a head of a donkey to the right of the main figure. 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. 4

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