The "Strange Allure" of Bugs and Grass: An Album of Insects and Plants by Qi Baishi in the Collection of the National Gallery in Prague
2009
Abstract
The Article discusses one of the masterpieces of Qi Baishi's painting housed in the collection of the National Gallery in Prague. Its complex character as a collective work of Qi Baishi and Fanzengxiang created as a gift for another famous personage of Chinese art world - Luo Dunrong, is examined in detail as well as the conditions leading to its acquisition by the National Gallery in Prague.