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| Artist: | Li Yanpeng (born 1958) |
| Title: | Warm Winter- 10 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1996 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Reduction Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Reduction Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Huge
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| Format (this edition): | Huge |
| DB artwork code: | 38924 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Title Warm Winter (10)
limited edition - this design published
Artist Li Yanpeng born 1958 Biography Resume Short Biography
Signature Signed, dated and numbered by artist in pencil.
Seal Artist's red seal.
Dated 1996
Medium/Technique Reduction woodblock print.
Edition Size 20.
Description This print is from the famous series "Warm Winter", which was a major breakthrough for the artist in his career. After experimenting with Western printing techniques, Li Yanpeng turned to reduction woodblock prints, a method of making multi-color prints by cutting each color on the same block. The method was developed by artists from Yunan (South China). In the beginning Li kept the number of colors low and concentrated more on how to achieve realistic textures, which can be perfectly seen by the depiction of the stones. Read what the artist wrote about his early experience in this technique (link below). This print is from 1996 and can be considered as very rare.
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 24.4 inches = 62.0 cm
Width Image 27.4 inches = 69.5 cm
Height Image 20.5 inches = 52.0 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 11 - this design shown. |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Impression Printed on a thick Chinese paper.
Colors Oil-based ink colors.
Condition very good … very small ink spots on margins.
Numbered 11 / 20
Note The image was taken from the original print. |
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| Artist Bio: |
The barren slopes, docile goats, lonely little trees, those North Country landscapes full of field sentiments that appeared often in Li's artworks are language symbols and spiritual carriers of his woodcuts. During the period that art didn't flourish much, there was maybe nothing greenness or vogue, but Li Yanpeng cuts with all his heart, his passion, giving these landscapes a new life and special meaning. His creations have won the favours of many collectors and exploited a new field of the waste-block (reduction woodblock) print.
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