Hong Hao Spring Festival on the River #1 2000 Wooden album cover and color photographs with silk box. Album: 14 5/8 x 12 5/8 x 2 in. (37.2 x 32.1 x 5.1 cm); album extended: 14 5/8 x 500 in. (36.8 x 1270 cm); box: 16 x 13 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. (40.6 x 34.9 x 6.4 cm). Signed and titled in Chinese characters; signed and titled again and numbered of 12 and dated "Spring Festival on the River No. 1 Hong Hao 2000" lower right of page three. This work is from an edition of 12.
Provenance Acquired directly from the artist Exhibited New York, Chambers Fine Art, Hong Hao’s Reading Room, March 3–April 10, 2004 Catalogue Essay The artist's "Spring Festival Over the River" series interposes images of modern-day Beijing with the masterpiece of the same name by Zhang Zeduan, the Song dynasty (960-1279) court painter. Zhang's work, which is painted on a silk handscroll, depicts daily life in the ancient Chinese capital of Kaifeng during the Qingming Festival. It is one of only a few paintings from the former imperial collection that the Kuomintang did not move to Taiwan and that remain today in the People's Republic of China. Hong's photographs depict a different type of daily life in modern Beijing. They are taken from inside a car, capturing a typical journey along Beijing's main thoroughfares past towering construction sites. Read More
Hong Hao Spring Festival on the River #1 2000 Wooden album cover and color photographs with silk box. Album: 14 5/8 x 12 5/8 x 2 in. (37.2 x 32.1 x 5.1 cm); album extended: 14 5/8 x 500 in. (36.8 x 1270 cm); box: 16 x 13 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. (40.6 x 34.9 x 6.4 cm). Signed and titled in Chinese characters; signed and titled again and numbered of 12 and dated "Spring Festival on the River No. 1 Hong Hao 2000" lower right of page three. This work is from an edition of 12.
Provenance Acquired directly from the artist Exhibited New York, Chambers Fine Art, Hong Hao’s Reading Room, March 3–April 10, 2004 Catalogue Essay The artist's "Spring Festival Over the River" series interposes images of modern-day Beijing with the masterpiece of the same name by Zhang Zeduan, the Song dynasty (960-1279) court painter. Zhang's work, which is painted on a silk handscroll, depicts daily life in the ancient Chinese capital of Kaifeng during the Qingming Festival. It is one of only a few paintings from the former imperial collection that the Kuomintang did not move to Taiwan and that remain today in the People's Republic of China. Hong's photographs depict a different type of daily life in modern Beijing. They are taken from inside a car, capturing a typical journey along Beijing's main thoroughfares past towering construction sites. Read More
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