Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
Mrs. A. Dean Perry [Helen Wade Greene Perry] [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Mu...
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Mrs. A. Dean Perry [Helen Wade Greene Perry] [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 14, 2017-February 5, 2018). Great Chinese painters of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, XV to XVIII: [a loan exhibition] for the benefit of the Asia Institute. Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY (March 11-April 2, 1949). Mostra D'arte Cinese. Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy (1954). Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).
Shen Zhou, a native from Suzhou, was descended from a prominent land-owning family with strong ties to literati culture. Because Shen Zhou never entered government service, he had ample opportunity to cultivate the arts of painting, poetry, and calligraphy.<br><br>Chrysanthemums and red osmanthus both bloom in autumn. The deep orange osmanthus flowers emanate a characteristically sweet fragrance. According to his inscription on the painting, Shen Zhou sought to imitate the style of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) painter Wang Yuan. His color-filled brushstrokes and washes, however, anticipate the flower painting style of Yun Shouping, whose <em>Peonies</em> are also in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection, <a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1967.192">https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1967.192</a>. The sheer size and complex composition of this scroll are impressive.
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