New Bamboo
Mount: 17 7/16 x 25 7/8 inches (44.29 x 65.72 cm)
Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Nelson-Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, November 7, 1980 – January 4, 1981; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 11 – March 29, 1918, no. 264.
Discarding the Brush - Gao Quipei and the Chinese Art of Fingerpainting, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, December 12, 1992 - February 28, 1993.
Flowers to Frost: Four Seasons in East Asian Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, July 18, 2015 - July 17, 2016.
Gao Qipei found endless inspiration from seasonal horticulture. In these two album leaves, he depicts towering spring bamboo and an autumn tangerine. He drew the simple yet striking pictures with his fingers, but used a brush to write a poem that accompanies each image. Together, these elements create a striking contrast.
New Bamboo
新竹
“Many will be the new bamboo growing at an old retreat;
Totally absent are letters forthcoming from distant friends.”
—Gao Qipei
Mr. and Mrs. David Spelman
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, sale 4296, lot 123, 2 November 1979;
Purchased from Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1979.
Takehiko Fukunaga, Howard L. Rogers, and Yujiro Nakada, Kin No [Jin Nong], Bunjinga suihen [Essence of Chinese and Japanese literati paintings], vol. IX (Tokyo: 1976), 51, 173, pls. 56-57.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, sale 4296, lot 123 (November 1979), pls. 1-13.
Wai-Kam Ho, et al., Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and The Cleveland Museum of Art. (The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, c1980), 358-360, no. 264.
Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 54-55, no. 18.
