Dimensions: Height: 95cm, Width: 55cm

Chinese 20th Century Republic Period, Xu Beihong Horse painting scroll. In vertical rectangular. Hand painted with vigorous horse with well-built body, head turn one's head to the right. Calligraphy Chinese lettering inscriptions poems, followed with artist's signature and iron-red seals on the upper right side. This inadvertently gave texture, energy, and shading to the design. Xu Beihong 1895–1953 was primarily known for his Chinese ink-and-wash painting of horses and birds. He was one of the first Chinese artists to articulate the need for artistic expressions that reflected a new modern China at the beginning of the 20th century. He was also regarded as one of the first to create monumental oil paintings with epic Chinese themes a show of his high proficiency in an essential Western art technique. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, he served as the President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Chairman of the Chinese Artists’ Association.

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