Qi Baishi (b. 1864, d. 1957)
Chrysanthemums. Ink and colour on paper. Signed and seal marked: 89 year old Baishi. Title on back label. Mounted on paper and silk. 1953. Image 103×34 cm. Incl. silk mounting 193×48 cm.
Provenance: The picture was donated by Baishi to Corner (a Danish artist association) in 1953. Baishi was invited and partook in a Corner exhibition in 1951 where a wide range of Chinese art was exhibited. It was the first time Chinese contemporary art was shown in Western Europe. In 1953 he was invited as a member of the association which he accepted with a letter and this painting. From 1954 he exhibited as a member of Corner. The sole European artist association he was a member of.
The present painting was likely exhibited in 1954 and at a memorial exhibition in 1958 and in 1964 and at a special Corner exhibition in Sophienholm in 2007 with the title Red and Yellow flowers.
Literature - according to information: Corner catalogues, 1951 and 1954 by Hans Scherfig. Obituary in 1958 by Karl Bovin. A memorial exhibition in 1964, Corner catalogue with a revised text by Hans Scherfig. J. Garff, Corner-Bogen 1973, 21–25. Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen, Corner Classic 2007, 40 and illustrated p. 147, 149, 158.
Condition report available on request.
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