Vegetables and Fruits

Xie Zhiliu Chinese

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This tracing, a variation on the adjacent, longer-format image, shows Xie subtly experimenting with the compositional arrangement of his model. The lily bulb, here located in the middle of the composition between the pomegranate and the turnip, is in a completely different location in the other tracing.

Vegetables and Fruits, Xie Zhiliu (Chinese, 1910–1997), Drawing; ink on tracing paper, China

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