Vintage Chinese Hanging Scroll Painting Black Peony by Zhu Qizhan

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Up for sale is a vintage Chinese freehand-style (写意) vertical painting, black peony, painted in 1975 (year of Yi Mao, … Read more Up for sale is a vintage Chinese freehand-style (写意) vertical painting, black peony, painted in 1975 (year of Yi Mao, 乙卯) by the important Chinese artist Zhu Qizhan (1892-1996)*, watercolor on paper, with artist's signature and seals, the painting set with satin/fabric frames and the backing paper, ready for mounting with scrollbars, or to be framed, in overall good condition with minor aging imperfections, former private Lower Manhattan collection
13 1/4" x 53 1/4" (image)

*Zhu Qizhan (1892 - 1996): Born in Liuhe, Taicang city, Jiangsu in 1892. The artist had studied in Japan, sequentially took over the position of professor in Shanghai University. His works of art had been exhibited on many occasions in China, Hong Kong, America, Singapore and Germany etc. He'd given lectures in USA, and painted for San Francisco international airport. Zhu had held solo exhibitions in Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Chendu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Singapore. His works are collected broadly by China national museum of fine arts, museum of Guangdong region, Shenzhen museum and Tianjin museum of fine arts. He' s a renowned contemporary artist, fine arts educator, and apt at Chinese calligraphy, landscape paintings. And the artist was skilled in painting plums, orchids and bamboo. See less