A famous Yuan Dynasty landscape painting that was split, with the two pieces kept separately in Taiwan and China, will be reunited when China sends the smaller piece to Taipei next month for an exhibition.
The painting, Dwelling in the Fu Chun Mountains (富春山居圖) by Huang Gongwang (黃公望, 1269-1354), was accidentally torn in two during the Qing Dynasty.
Today, the smaller piece, 51.4cm long, is kept at China’s Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou, while the other piece, 639.9cm long, is kept at the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
The ink on paper handscroll is one of Huang’s few surviving works. It is known as his greatest work and one of the 10 most famous paintings in Chinese history.
The painting will be exhibited in its entirety in June, thanks to a memorandum of understanding that was signed in January between the two museums.
Barry Lam (林百里), chairman of the Taipei-based Quanta Cultural and Education Foundation, signed the memorandum on behalf of the National Palace Museum with Chen Hao (陳浩), director of the Zhejiang Museum, according to China’s Xinhua news agency.
Under the agreement, the two pieces of Dwelling in the Fu Chun Mountains will be put together and displayed as one work at the National Palace Museum from June 1 to Sept. 25.
The first section of the painting, renamed Broken Mountains, will be flown to Taipei next month, Chen said, adding that he hoped Taipei would agree to send the longer section to Zhejiang so that the masterpiece could be shown in its entirety to the Chinese public.
For the upcoming exhibition, the Zhejiang Museum has taken out insurance of 150 million yuan (US$23 million) on Broken Mountains, which will be paid for by the National Palace Museum, Chen said.
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