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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.110
People
Chen Haiyan 陳海燕 ( Fushun, Liaoning province, China born 1955)
Title
Song of the Divine
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 神的歌
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1986
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/383968

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. 32.6 × W. 23 cm (12 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • signature: in pencil: 10/30 梦1986年2月28日神的歌 陈海燕 1986 [10/30 Dream: February 28, 1986, Song of the Divine; Chen Haiyan 1986]
  • inscription: printed: 我坐在大海边，
    静静听着遥远的天边传来了渔歌，
    那么忧伤，
    那么等......啊---啊，
    是神的歌。

    梦 一九八六二二十八


    DREAM: FEBRUARY 28, 1986
    I am sitting at the seaside,
    quietly listening to the
    faraway song of the fishermen
    coming from a distant horizon.
    It is so mournful and sad,
    so ... oh, oh!
    It is the song of the divine.

    [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
2024.110
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 sitting out in nature, facing left and hair flying in the wind. Another two figures are sitting afar. Chinese characters occupy the middle of the print, above the figures.

Publication History

  • Britta Erickson, Abby Chen, and Amjad Majid, Chen Haiyan: Carving the Unconscious (Seattle, 2016), pl. 11

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