Artist: After Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470 - 1524)
Ming Lady WOOD BLOCK PRINT
Ink and color on paper, Yisebiao mount, Vertical axis hanging scroll
Painting (Sight): Length: 125 cm, Width: 58 cm
Signed/Seal(s): (Woodblock Print) Signed, with Seven seals

PROVENANCE:

Nien Cheng 念鄭 or Zheng Nian 鄭念 (January 28, 1915 - November 2, 2009) was the pen name of Yao Nien-Yuan (姚念媛). She was a Chinese author known for recounting her experiences during the Cultural Revolution in her memoir Life and Death in Shanghai.

ARTIST BIO: Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470 - 1524), courtesy name Bohu 伯虎, was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet of the Ming dynasty period. Even though he was born during the Ming dynasty, many of his paintings, especially those of people, were illustrated with elements from Pre-Tang to Song dynasty art. Tang Yin is one of the most notable painters in the history of Chinese art. He is one of the "Four Masters of Ming dynasty” (Ming Si Jia), which also includes Shen Zhou (1427 - 1509), Wen Zhengming (1470 - 1559) and Qiu Ying (c. 1495 - 1552). His influence on the art of contemporaries, like Cai Han, is notable. Tang was also a talented poet, and together with his contemporaries Wen Zhengming, Zhu Yunming (1460 - 1526), and Xu Zhenqing, he was one of the "Four Literary Masters of the Wuzhong Region".

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