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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.108
People
Chen Haiyan 陳海燕 ( Fushun, Liaoning province, China born 1955)
Title
None of the Melons Are Ripe
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 瓜都不熟
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1986
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/383966

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. 33.2 × W. 23 cm (13 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • signature: in pencil: 10/30 梦1986年2月21日 瓜都不熟 陈海燕1986 [10/30 Dream: February 21, 1986, None of the Melons are Ripe; Chen Haiyan 1986]
  • inscription: printed: 我站在葡萄架上摘西瓜扔下来，
    那瓜都不熟。

    梦 一九八六二二十一


    DREAM: FEBRUARY 21, 1986
    I am standing on a grapevine trellis
    plucking watermelons to toss down.
    None of the melons are ripe.

    [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
2024.108
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 five watermelons on a grapevine trellis where a figure is sitting. A figure is to the right of the trellis whereas a large wedge of watermelon is underneath the trellis. 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. 9

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