近代 邵少逸 少年東方朔 軸|Dongfang Shou as a Youth

Shao Shaoyi

early 20th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

Shao Shaoyi was a student and friend of Qi Baishi. In the thirties and forties while working in Peking as a newspaper journalist, he was inspired by Qi's experiments using large brushes. Shao Shaoyi's painting of the official Dongfang Manqian who served the Han Emperor Wu Di and later assumed the rank of an Immortal, is a close copy of Qi's painting of the same subject. Shao, following Qi's lead, depicts the Immortal as a cherubic lad, still coiffed as a child, holding the colorful peach that is the emblem of this immortality like a favorite plaything. Qi in his inscription to Shao's painting gives himself credit for his novel decision to depict the Immortal as a youth.

Artist

Shao Shaoyi

Date

early 20th century

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986