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Plum Blossoms in Moonlight

月梅圖

first half of the 1300s

Yan Hui 顏輝

(Chinese, active 1270–1310)

China, Yuan dynasty

(1271-1368)

Album leaf, ink on silk

Image: 26 x 28.3 cm (10 1/4 x 11 1/8 in.); Overall: 33.3 x 40.4 cm (13 1/8 x 15 7/8 in.)

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1978.49

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Artist biography

Yan Hui

Yan Hui was a professional painter skilled in painting landscapes, figures, deities, and ghosts. He was a native of Luling 廬陵, Jiangxi 江西 province, active in the late Southern Song and early Yuan dynasty.

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Inscription

顏輝

Inscription Translation

Artist's signature: Yan Hui

Provenance

Akaboshi family 赤星家, Japan

? by 1972-1978

(Jean-Pierre Dubosc [1904–1988], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1978-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Dubosc, Jean-Pierre. “Plum Blossoms in Moonlight: A Round Fan Painting Signed Yen Hui.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 26, 1972, pp. 67–70. Reproduced: pp. 67-70, fig. 2 www.jstor.org

Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 66, no. 1, 1979, pp. 3–47. Reproduced: cat. no. 149, p. 34; Mentioned: p. 5, p. 46 www.jstor.org

Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. Reproduced: cat. no. 9, p. 110

Ortiz, Valérie Malenfer. Dreaming the southern song landscape: the power of illusion in Chinese painting. Leiden: Brill, 1999. Reproduced: plate 57

Fong, Wen, and Jerome Silbergeld, editor. Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong. Princeton, NJ: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 2011. Reproduced: p. 71, fig. 4

Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: pp. 85-89

Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.

Reproduced: p. 85

Exhibition history

Bones of Jade, Soul of Ice: The Flowering Plum in Chinese Art. University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (January 22-March 24, 1985); Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (April 17-June 30, 1985); St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (September 6-November 3, 1985).

Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).

Fans: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1992-March 7, 1993).

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