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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.112
People
Chen Haiyan 陳海燕 ( Fushun, Liaoning province, China born 1955)
Title
A Group of Children
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 一群小孩
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1986
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/383970

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print; ink on pi zhi bast paper
Dimensions
image: H. 19.5 × W. 13 cm (7 11/16 × 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3月31日一群小孩 陈海燕 1986 [10/30 Dream: March 31, 1986, A Group of Children; Chen Haiyan 1986]
  • inscription: printed: 一群小孩由弟弟领头跑到树下，
    那儿落了一只大鸟儿，
    它飞不动了。
    我看这鸟，
    呆立在树下。

    梦 一九八六三三十一


    DREAM: MARCH 31, 1986
    A group of children led by
    my little brother run
    under a tree.
    There a large bird has landed,
    and it cannot fly away.
    I watch the bird awkwardly
    standing there
    beneath the tree.

    [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
2024.112
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 bird perched on a tree branch. Four figures are under the tree. Chinese characters occupy the whole print around the image at the center.

Publication History

  • Britta Erickson, Abby Chen, and Amjad Majid, Chen Haiyan: Carving the Unconscious (Seattle, 2016), pl. 13

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