Xu Beihong
Bamboo
1942
Scroll
Xu Beihong
Bamboo
1942
Physical Qualities
Ink on paper, Scroll: 93 11/16 x 26 in. (238 x 66 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Kai-Yun Chiu, Baltimore, in Honor of her Parents, Chung-Wei Chiu and Shu-Tsing Chiu
Object Number
2009.157
The painting which depicts two bamboos and two bamboo shoots is inscribed, "In winter solstice of 1943, I met Mr. Lin Banjue in Guiyang. He told me my old friend Yiwu had composed poems in the style of Du Fu. I really admired Yiwu and therefore painted two bamboos to express my thinking of him. Beihong." [translated by Jason Kuo, June 2015]
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2009; Kai-Yun Chiu, Baltimore, by descent; Chung-Wei Chiu, Taiwan, by gift; from the artist
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Inscribed: Signed and dated Winter 1943; two artist seals.
