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paintings collected by his friend. Strongly influenced by
the highly varied works (official portraits, packs of cards
and landscapes) of the late Ming painter Chen
Hongshou, Ren Xiong employed a wide variety of painting
styles. His "Self portrait", now in the Palace Museum
in Beijing, is an unclassifiable work imbued with an extraordinary
modernity, still very striking today. He illustrated
the works of the poet Yao Xie, and produced albums of
engravings, such as the "Histoires des chevaliers redresseurs
de tort" ("Stories of knight errants"), and portraits of
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scholars and immortals. Also attributed to him are
several bird-and-flower paintings, and landscapes like
the long roll of "La chaumière du lac Fan” ("The Thatched
Pavilion of Fan Lake"). According to the exhibition's
curator, Eric Lefèvre, "its palette makes it a turning point
in the history of landscape". Anne Foster
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"Shanghai School (1840-1920). Paintings and calligraphies
from the Shanghai Museum", 8 March to 30 June, Musée
Cernuschi, Paris. www.cernuschi.paris.fr/en
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