West Lake, Hangzhou: View toward the Little Isle of the Immortals

Xie Zhiliu Chinese

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On this sheet, Xie's layering of the foreground, middle ground, and far distance may have been an attempt to construct a composition using the traditional "three distances." According to Xie's inscription, this is a view from the site of the former Leifeng Pagoda, which had collapsed in 1924, toward the island called "Reflections of the Moon in Three Ponds."

West Lake, Hangzhou: View toward the Little Isle of the Immortals, Xie Zhiliu (Chinese, 1910–1997), Sheet from a sketchbook; pencil on paper, China

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