末帝宝鉴 辽宁省博物馆藏清宮散佚明清书画 – Willow Hai Chang Alleen Vandaag

“This bilingual catalog includes illustrations of 34 works of painting and calligraphy from the exhibition, as well as illustrations of portraits of emperors, painting, and calligraphy from the imperial collection. China’s last emperor, Pu Yi, sold off and dispersed countless palace treasures in the early twentieth century, but the Liaoning Provincial Museum has successfully reassembled a large part of that collection since 1949. Using these select masterpieces as a focus, this exhibition examines the histo…