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Zhang Daqian 張大千

Header: Zhang Daqian 張大千
Also known as: Zhang Daqian 張大千; primary name: Zhang Daqian; other name: Chang Dai-chien
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; Chinese; Male
Life dates: 1899-1983
Biography: Zhang Daqian was born in Neijiang, Sichuan province. While he often signed as Zhang Yuan, the name Daqian was given to him when he spent a short time as a novice in a Buddhist monastery to escape a pre-arranged marriage. In 1917 he left for Japan to study textile dyeing and weaving in Kyoto. Later, in Shanghai, he learned painting and calligraphy from Zeng Xi (1861-1930) and Li Ruiqing (1867-1920) and studied the ‘individualist’ artists Shitao (1642-ca.1710) and Bada Shanren (ca. 1626-1705). During the Second Sino-Japanese war Zhang spent the years from 1941 to 1943 at the site of the Thousand Buddha Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. He catalogued and copied many of the brilliantly coloured murals that date from the fifth to the eleventh centuries. The stay had a significant impact on his later figure paintings.
Bibliography: Fu Shen C.Y. and Jan Stuart, Challenging the Past. The Paintings of Chang Dai-chien (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1991). Fu Shen, The World of Chang Da-chien (Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1998). Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Artists. ABiographical Dictionary (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, Univeristy of California Press, 2006), pp.214-15.

9 related objects

fan; calligraphy; painting

Museum number: 1993,1225,0.37 |
Producer name: BIOG16055 Made by:Zhang Daqian 張大千 |
Production date: 1935 |
Production place: Made in:China

handscroll; painting

Title: 倦繡圖 Juan xiu tu |
Museum number: 1963,1214,0.2 |
Producer name: Claimed to be by:Zhou Wenju 周文矩Made by:Zhang Daqian 張大千 |
Production date: 20th century |
Production place: Made in:China

hanging scroll; painting

Title: Landscape in Blue and Green; 青綠山水; Qinglü shanshui |
Museum number: 1977,0228,0.2 |
Producer name: BIOG16055 Painted by:Zhang Daqian 張大千 |
Production date: 1964 |
Production place: Made in:China |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:London (England)

hanging scroll; painting

Museum number: 1958,1213,0.6 |
Producer name: BIOG16055 Made by:Zhang Daqian 張大千 |
Cultures/periods: x14444 Republic |
Production date: 20thC |
Production place: Made in:China

hanging scroll; painting

Museum number: 1993,1225,0.16 |
Producer name: Made by:Zhang Daqian 張大千After:Shitao 石濤 |
Production date: 1929 |
Production place: Made in:China

hanging scroll; painting

Title: Landscape; 山水; Shanshui |
Museum number: 1966,0613,0.7 |
Producer name: BIOG16055 Painted by:Zhang Daqian 張大千 |
Cultures/periods: x14444 Republic |
Production date: 1935 |
Production place: Painted in:Zhejiang (province)

hanging scroll; painting

Title: Figure, Rock and Bamboo; 人物與石竹; Renwu yu shizhu |
Museum number: 1993,1225,0.17 |
Producer name: BIOG16055 Made by:Zhang Daqian 張大千 |
Production date: 1935 |
Production place: Made in:China

hanging scroll; painting

Title: 茂林叠嶂圖; Maolin diezhang tu |
Museum number: 1961,1209,0.1 |
Producer name: Painted by:Zhang Daqian 張大千Claimed to be by:Juran 巨然 |
Production date: 1951 |
Production place: Made in:China

hanging scroll; painting

Museum number: 1961,0408,0.7 |
Producer name: Claimed to be by:Yi Yuanji 易元吉Made by:Zhang Daqian 張大千 |
Production date: 20thC |
Production place: Made in:China