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Conversation in Autumn
The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund
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Conversation in Autumn

1732
Hua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765) visual detail
ArtistHua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765)
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Provenance

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Ye Tingguan 葉廷琯 [b. 1791]

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Sun Zutong 孫祖同 [1894–1937]

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Yu Zituo 虞子垞 [early 20th century]

?–1954

(Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1954–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Ye Tingguan 葉廷琯 [b. 1791] Sun Zutong 孫祖同 [1894–1937] Yu Zituo 虞子垞 [early 20th century] (Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954). Master of Landscape: East and West. Munson Museum of Art, Utica, NY (organizer) (September 15-October 13, 1963); Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (November 1-December 1, 1963). Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (March 23-May 28, 1967); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (June 20-August 13, 1967); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 15-November 5, 1967). Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 3, 1982-February 28, 1983). Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-December 13, 1987). Ji Yun-Fei: Last Days of Village Wen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-July 31, 2016). Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).

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Two figures sit conversing in a thatched cottage. This painting illustrates two poetic lines:<br><br>My guest came to sit beyond the dust, <br>In a narrow room, we talked about the autumnal sounds of autumn. <br><br>Hua Yan presented an intimate world—simple and rustic—amid a landscape. The cool wilderness depicted in this work conveys an aloofness that may reveal the inner world of a scholar-artist who failed the civil service examination but preserved a sense of pride and endurance in his humble surroundings.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 5 structured provenance events · 6 structured exhibitions.

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