元 李衎 竹石圖 對軸, Bamboo and rocks, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), dated 1318, China, Pair of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk, Image (each): 74 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. (189.9 x 55.2 cm), Paintings, Li Kan (Chinese, 1245–1320), Li Kan was a northern Chinese who entered the service of the Mongol government at an early period and rose to a high position in the Yuan court. The author of an authoritative treatise on bamboo painting, Li stated that the painter must possess 'the complete bamboo in [his] breast,' and he urged statesmen to take up bamboo painting to discipline their minds and expand their breadth of vision
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