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Pampas Grass

Unsigned 作者不明

Color painting formed from a pair of screens arranged horizontally side-by-side, each with six, narrow vertical panels, of long, green grasses with curving leaves growing upwards from the lower edge against a background of solid golden clouds. An area of hazy gold and bands of dark blue is visible through the clouds in the lower center of the composition, continuous across both screens. A thin rectangular border of gold textile surrounds each screen on all sides. — Six-panel folding screen; ink, color paint, gold, and clam shell gesso on paper; 71 1/4 × 149 3/8 in. Public Domain

Artist
Unsigned

Subject Area
Environment

Artistic Techniques
Abstraction Gold, Gold Leaf

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