Ink and wateroclor on paper, hanging scroll, featuring painting of gourds, signed and attributed to Zhu Qizhan (1892-1996, Chinese), inscribed with 1 artist seal, 70 cm x 46.5 cm, The painter and calligrapher Zhu Qizhan was born in 1892 in a wealthy family in Taicang, in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. At the age of seven, he began studying painting with a private tutor, and as early as his twenties he became professor at the Shanghai Arts Academy. He later travelled in Japan, where he studied Western oil painting methods. This experience, as well as his discovery of painters like Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso or Cezanne played a decisive role in his work, from then-on marked by the constant influence of Western painting, in the style, colors or techniques he used.

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