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Li Yanpeng born 1958 - Dig Potatos (1)

Item	18341
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Date Sold	Thursday, February 2, 2006

Title	Dig Potatos (1)
	limited edition - this design published
Artist	Li Yanpeng born 1958
Description	A Chinese farmer at his hard work. A cart with a donkey are ready for the way home with a load of potatoes. It is hard to believe that anything can grow on a barren piece of land like this. Li Yanpeng shows us images very different from the glamor pictures of modern skyscrapers in Shanghai or Beijing. But there is nothing of social criticism in the artist's works. He just shows this rural part of China as it is. This is the region where he grew up. And he loves this land and its people.
Signature	Signed, dated and numbered by artist in pencil.
Seal	Artist's red seal.
Dated	1998.
Medium/Technique	Reduction woodblock print.
Impression	Printed on a thick Chinese paper.
Colors	Oil-based color inks.
Condition	Very good ... minor smudge spot on the bottom margin.
Edition Size	20
Numbered	9 / 20
Note	Li Yanpeng is one of the 60 artists selected for the collection of the London based Muban Foundation (muban = Chinese word for woodblock print).
Width Item	31.5 inches = 80.0 cm
Height Item	22.8 inches = 58.0 cm
Width Image	27.6 inches = 70.0 cm
Height Image	18.5 inches = 47.0 cm
Literature	Ban Hua Zhuo Pin Ji, "Li Yanpeng" with 59 pages and 57 plates in full color, Chinese Book Publisher, published in Dec 2004, 7-5434-5448-3, written in Chinese, - page 26 - this design shown.
Note	The image was taken from the original print.

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