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Painting in the Far East : an introduction to the history of pictorial art in Asia especially China and Japan (1913)

Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943 · New York : Longmans, Green · leaf 150

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ke energyof the original, no less than the admirable masteryof the rrangement. In the British Museum is a small painting of awhite pony (from the Olga Wegener collection)which Chinese critics have attributed to Han Kan.It is unfortunately much damaged, but enoughremains to show the virile delicacy… … THE TANG DYNASTY is certainly a very ancient work, though as to theactual author, who shall say ? As with the Yiianpainter, Chao Meng-fu, any very old painting ofhorses tends to gravitate to Han Kans name. In the same collection is a very fine picture whichJapanese tradition assigned to this…

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