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GAI QI Chinese 1774-1829 Watercolor Paper Booklet

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GAI QI Chinese 1774-1829 Watercolor Paper Booklet
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Watercolor on paper booklet, featuring 7 pages of various figures with poems, signed Gai Qi (Chinese, 1773-1828), inscribed with 7 artist seals, 39 x 35.5 cm, Gai Qi was a poet and painter born in western China during the Qing dynasty. As an artist, he was active in Shanghai. In painting his works mainly concerned plants, beauty, and figures. However he also did numerous landscapes. In poetry he preferred the rhyming ci form and added such poems to his paintings.