Mushroom and Cabbage
Artist
Chang Dai-chien
(Zhang Daqian; Chinese, 1899 - 1983)
Date1973
MaterialsInk and colors on paper
DimensionsImage: H. 17 1/2 in × W. 20 5/8 in (44.5 cm × 52.4 cm)
Matted: H. 21 7/8 in × W. 28 in (55.6 cm × 71.1 cm)
Matted: H. 21 7/8 in × W. 28 in (55.6 cm × 71.1 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Marjorie Walter Bissinger
Object number2010.36
DepartmentChinese Art
ClassificationsPainting
On View
Not on viewSigned“大千唯印大幸”（朱文方印）、“春長好”（朱文方印）、“環蓽盦”（朱文長方印）。
Daqian weiyin daxin (square relief), chun chang hao (square relief), Huanbi’an (rectangle relief).
Inscribed“中華民國六十二年嘉平月歲不盡日，寫頌板橋先生甲寅開歲百吉。張大千爰。”
On the last day of the twelfth lunar month [Chinese New Year’s Eve], in the 62nd year of the republican period (1973), (I) painted this to commemorate the 300th birth anniversary of Banqiao (1693-1766) at the beginning of a jiayin year (1974). Zhang Daqian Yuan.
More InformationChang Dai-chien was famous among his friends and family for his cooking. He painted multiple menus as gifts at dinners with friends, illustrated some letters with images of food, and created an original design that was printed by a friend, in quantities numbering in the thousands, as placemats for his Chinese restaurant in San Jose. This informal painting of Chinese cabbage, or bok choy, and mushrooms represents these healthy vegetables as if they were ready for chopping before being tossed into the wok.
Subject
- mushroom
- cabbage
