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Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund
Museum
Banana Plants
1788
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Evidence ranked
Provenance
Public1788–?
Daili Shanren 戴笠山人 [active late 1700s]
Provenance event
Ni Yun 倪耘 [d. 1864]
Provenance event
Yan Shiqing 顏世清 [1873–1929]
Provenance event
Xu Xiaopu 徐小圃 [1887–1961]
c. mid-1900s
Ding Nianxian 丁念先 [1906–1969]
?–1985
(Eskenazi Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1985–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Source provenance text
Daili Shanren 戴笠山人 [active late 1700s] Ni Yun 倪耘 [d. 1864] Yan Shiqing 顏世清 [1873–1929] Xu Xiaopu 徐小圃 [1887–1961] Ding Nianxian 丁念先 [1906–1969] (Eskenazi Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
When Salt was Gold: Yangzhou, City of Riches and Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 12-November 5, 2023). Gallery 122 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 26–April 26, 2000). Gallery 122 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 27–June 25, 2001).
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Sourced Overview Evidence
Min Zhen was trained by Tang Yin (1682–1756), a writer, playwright, and superintendent of the imperial porcelain workshops in Jingdezhen. The connection to him may have enabled Min to stay in Beijing for a decade from around 1773. It is not clear whether he ever resided in Yangzhou, but his style is in many instances reminiscent of that of Yangzhou artist Huang Shen. <br><br>This album was painted for his friend Dailili Shanren in exchange for a scholar’s stone. The paintings demonstrate the artist’s versatility and mature style in the last years of his life. While two paintings are rendered in unconventional compositions seen from above (<em>Cat and Butterfly </em><a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1985.71.5">CMA 1985.71.5</a>) and below (<em>Banana Plant </em><a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1985.71.11">CMA 1985.71.11</a>), they have a humorous touch. The banana plant stands for the world of literati but can also allude to Buddhism.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 7 structured provenance events · 1 structured exhibitions.
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