Ya Ming Signed Mid 20th Century Album of Sketches Eight Ink and Watercolour Paintings Presented in an Album with Artist Seal

Type of artwork: Rare to the market, an album of eight ink and colour preparatory sketches on paper, signed with two seals of the artist.

Surface: Paper

Artist and signature: YA MING (Chinese 1924-2002) Signed

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 also began to integrate western art techniques into their painting. Essentially Ya Ming and his colleagues faced the challenging task of adapting traditional Chinese painting into the modern country China was becoming.

Approximate age of artwork: mid 20th Century

Depiction or Location: Eight Various Studies

Condition report: The artwork is considered to be in fair to good condition; some minor dirt & creasing is evident. Please see our large selection of photographs to inspect the condition and quality of this item, and please don't hesitate to make contact, we are more than happy to answer any questions which you may have.

Size of artwork: 36.5 x 32 cm (mount aperture 30 x 25 cm)

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