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Sun Liang has explained the allegorical significance of the centipede: "there is an old Chinese proverb: an insect with a hundred pairs of legs remains active after death. It can still move after death".
Sun Liang
Centipede
Oil on canvas
180 x 120 cms (70.74 x 47.16 ins)
1990
Exhibited:
Sun Liang, A Painters Journey, James Hyman Gallery, London, 8 October - 15 November 2008.
Literature:
Sun Liang: A Painter's Journey, James Hyman Gallery, London, 2008, (cat. 5), detail p.4 and illustrated p.19 and p.44.