Dancer, after Wanfoxia Frescoes

Clark, Allan (1896-1950)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1925
Height:
29.0 cm  (11 7/16 in.)
Width:
24.0 cm  (9 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
watercolor and white gouache over graphite on buff laid paper

Additional titles

Copies of frescoes in caves visited by Second Expedition to China

Description

Item is a representation of a single male dancer in elaborate costume and with flowing fabric (silk ribbons?) around him. Image is copied from a fresco on the east panel of Cave 5 at Wanfoxia (Wan Fo Hsia), Kansu province, China. The Silk Road Foundation provides another identifying name for original source of this image: "YULIN CAVES," also called WANFOXIA (The Gorge of Ten Thousand Buddhas).

Iconclass

43C911
man dancing alone

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Notes

RIdIM record id

5666