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Dragonfly

Dragonfly

born 1955

Chen Haiyan 陳海燕

Chinese

The coarsely cut woodblock print in black ink is enclosed within vertically oriented rectangle. The print depicts two figures each holding a racket. A dragonfly bigger than them is above their heads. Chinese characters occupy right edge and lower right corner of the print.

Woodblock print; ink on pi zhi bast paper

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