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The Arts Intel Report

Yan Pei-Ming: A Burial in Shanghai

Oct 1, 2019 – Jan 12, 2020
1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris, France

Gustave Courbet’s A Burial at Ornans depicts the funeral of his great-uncle. A black-clad crowd lingers in a sunless valley, standing awkwardly under a raised crucifix. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Courbet’s birth, the Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming pays tribute to that great painting with his own A Burial in Shanghai, equally somber. —E.C.