Flowers, melon, fish and insect – (Gao Jianfu) ◄ Anterior Următor ►

Artist: Gao Jianfu

mărimea: 28 x 98 cm

muzeu: Hong Kong Museum of Art (Hong Kong, China)

Tehnică: Silk

This series of four paintings form an early masterpiece by Gao Jianfu, completed in 1905 when he was twenty-seven. He became a disciple of the renowned bird-and-flower painter, Ju Lian, at the age of fourteen. The two panels on either side feature peonies and Chinese trumpet creepers respectively, while the two in the middle feature a melon with flowers and a lotus - two subjects that were to become Gao