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Penguins

HUANG Yongyu
Penguins
(企鵝)
 1989

Medium
ink, watercolour and gouache on paper

Measurements
39.2 × 136.9 cm (image and sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Jason Yeap, 2007
© Huang Yongyu

Reproduction requests

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria

Inscription
inscribed in black (in image) (in Chinese characters) u.l.: (the spring of 1989, penguins sketch from life, Huang Yongyu)
stamped in red (in image) (in Chinese characters) u.l.: (seal of Huang Yongyu)

Accession Number
2007.441

Department
Asian Art

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Gordon Darling Foundation

Physical description
Depicting penguins and was painted when the artist visited Australian in the 1980's.

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