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Xie Zhiliu Chinese
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This is one of four drawings in which Xie repeated an image of the same bird but experimented with various configurations of branches and leaves. Because this drawing is done in pencil and is the most complex of the four, it may have been the starting point of the series.
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現代 謝稚柳 枝禽圖 鏡片
Title: Bird on a Branch
Artist:
Xie Zhiliu (Chinese, 1910–1997)
Date: 20th century
Culture: China
Medium: Drawing; pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions: Overall: 7 7/8 x 15 11/16 in. (20 x 39.8 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Sarah Shay, 2005
Accession Number: 2005.411.131
Rights and Reproduction: Estate of Xie Zhiliu
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