Zhong Sibin Cheong Soo Pieng, Portrait of Khoan Sullivan (detail), 1959, 1.

LONDON.- Asia House Gallery will present Modern Chinese Art - The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection in two exhibitions at Asia House Gallery. The first one will be titled Beginnings and will take place 1 February –15 March 2008. The second will be titled A New Generation and will be on view 1 April – 24 May 2008.

This is the first showing in London of a unique collection of Chinese art formed by the great scholar and connoisseur of Chinese painting in the West, Michael Sullivan, and his wife Khoan. The Sullivans’ collection includes art acquired over a period of sixty-five years, beginning with the work of artists who were refugees in the province of Sichuan in Western China in the 1940s to contemporary artists. Most of the works were gifts from artists, whom the Sullivans came to know over the years, so that this is a very personal collection, witness to friendships going back over many decades.

Their collection developed over the course of more than half a century to include paintings, prints, woodcuts and drawings by the principal artists of late twentieth century China, as well as works by a new generation.

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Fu Baoshi, Landscapes of the Four Seasons, 1950