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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 · Gift of Charles L. Freer
Museum
Landscapes
1892
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Provenance
Public?–1915
Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), Detroit, MI, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1915–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Source provenance text
Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), Detroit, MI, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
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Sourced Overview Evidence
This set of four seasonal landscape hanging scrolls are by Ren Yu. He was the youngest, most eccentric, and least prolific of the Four Rens, a family of prominent painters in Shanghai during the late Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Perhaps due to his opium habit and subsequent financial difficulties, Ren Yu tended to be lackadaisical in his work. The few remaining high-quality paintings hint at his artistic potential lost to opium. <br><br>Though Ren’s premature death left his artistic promise unfulfilled, his paintings were acquired and donated to the museum by Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), a wealthy businessman and art collector from Detroit. As Freer had hoped, this donation of Ren Yu paintings inspired the young Cleveland Museum of Art to continue to expand its own Chinese painting collection.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.
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