Type of artwork: Rare to the market, an Original Watercolour & Ink PaintingSurface: Paper Artist and signature: YA MING (Chinese 1924-2002) Signed Taken from a sketchbook of the artist works which included one painting that was signed by the artist. As such we certify that this work is an original painting by YA MING (Chinese 1924-2002) Together with Fu Baoshi, Qian Songyan and others, Ya Ming is a key figure of the Nanjing school (?????). After liberation, the Chinese government continued urging artists to use their skills to serve the people. Shortly after Jiangsu Provincial Painting Institute was founded, Ya Ming and other artists from the Painting Institute departed on a trip to sketch people''s daily life and landscape in 1960, covering a distance of over twenty thousand li. The journey largely transformed these artists work. They shifted their subject from traditional landscape to people''s new social life under the leadership of the Communist Party. The artists a...