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PAN TIANSHOU Chinese 1897-1971 Watercolor Lotus

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PAN TIANSHOU Chinese 1897-1971 Watercolor Lotus
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Ink and watercolor on paper; hanging scroll. Featuring a lotus. Signed and attr. Pan Tianshou (Chinese, 1897-1971) and inscribed with two artist seals. 167 x 59 cm. Pan Tianshou was a Chinese painter known for his freehand brushwork and an emphasis on calligraphic lines. Born Pan Tianjin on March 14, 1897 in Guanzhuang, China, he attended Zhejiang Provincial Teachers’ College in Hangzhou before traveling to Japan to study. Settling in Shanghai in 1923, Pan befriended the 80 year old artist Wu Changshuo. Around this time, Pan became increasingly concerned that traditional Chinese painting would be erased by the adoption of Western influences. In light of this he set up the Bai She (White Society), with which he hoped to reform the trend toward European painting. After 1949, when the Communist Party adopted Socialist Realism as the official style of the country, Pan’s traditional beliefs became not only unpopular but dangerous. When the Cultural Revolution occurred in the 1965, the artist was publicly humiliated in the streets and imprisoned despite being an old man. He died on September 5, 1971 in Hangzhou, China. Today, his works are held in the collections of the National Museum of China in Beijing and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.