Rats and a Lamp
Qi Baishi Chinese
Not on view
Beneath an oil lamp, three rats scurry over a blue, cloth-bound book.
The artist’s inscription reads:
Rats would wish all people to be rich;
The thought behind the wish is not selfless.
In the dinghai year [1947], painted by the eighty-seven year old Baishi.
--Translation by Keita Itoh and Lawrence Wu
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