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PAN YULIANG Chinese 1896-1977 Oil on Board Ladies

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PAN YULIANG Chinese 1896-1977 Oil on Board Ladies
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Oil on board, framed, featuring 2 Chinese ladies, lower right corner signed and attr. Pan Yuliang (Chinese, 1895-1977), 15.9 x 16.3 inch (40.5 x 41.5 cm), She was a Chinese painter, renowned as the first woman in the country to paint in the Western style. She had studied in Shanghai and Paris. Because her modernist works caused controversy and drew severe criticism in China during the 1930s, Pan returned to Paris in 1937 to live and work for the next 40 years. She taught at the École des Beaux Arts, won several awards for her work, had exhibits internationally in Europe, the United States and Japan, and was collected by major institutions.