It includes key paintings by Qi Baishi (1864-1957), Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), and Fu Baoshi (1904-64)- some of the hottest tickets in the international art market.
The Sullivan collection comprises more than 400 works of art amassed by Professor Michael Sullivan (1916-2013) and his wife, Khoan, from the 1940s.
Some of the works have been loaned and displayed over the years at the Ashmolean in the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Gallery which opened in 2000. Many have never been exhibited in public.
Prof Sullivan's study Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century (1959) was the first book to address the subject. Key to his understanding were the friendships he made with artists both in China and abroad. In March 2014, the museum will show a selection of works in a commemorative exhibition, Michael Sullivan: a Life of Art and Friendship.
