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Qi Baishi, Album with 22 Woodblock Prints, 1952

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:500.00 EUR Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR
Qi Baishi, Album with 22 Woodblock Prints, 1952
Woodblock prints on paper (double pages)
China, 1952
Qi Baishi (1864-1957) – Major Chinese painter of the modern period
Publisher: Rong Bao Zhai, Beijing
22 prints of paintings by the famous Chinese artist
Original silk brocade cover
Dimensions: 31.5 x 21.5 cm
Good condition
Provenance: Private collection, Italy
Wonderful colelction for enthusiasts of Qi Baishi’s work, whose high-quality printing perfectly reproduces the vibrant colors and lively depictions

This Chinese album, was published in 1952 by the publishing house Rong Bao Zhai. It includes a collection of 22 color woodcut prints from ink drawings by the important Chinese artist Qi Baishi (1864-1957). The impressive works bear witness to the reduced and impressive aesthetics of Chinese painting. They depict motifs from the Chinese flora and fauna in the tradition of classical scholarly painting, which the artist renders with expressive and vivid brush strokes in his paintings. The prints are bound in an original silk brocade cover with a dragon and phoenix pattern.



The album is in good condition. It is complete and shows the usual signs of age and wear. The cover is slightly rubbed. The pages show visible foxing, especially along the edges. The book has a height of 31.5 cm and a width of 21.5 cm.



Qi Baishi ??? (1864-1957)

Qi Baishi was one of the most famous painters of the 20th century and a proprietor of modernist currents. He was born son of a farmer in 1864, in Xiangtan in the Hunan province. He died 1957 in Beijing. The artist began painting at the age of 14 and started on a tour through China’s famous landscapes in 1904, where he attained great fame. In 1917, Qi Baishi then settled in Beijing. He was voted into the national congress of the people in 1953 and was the first president of the Chinese association of artists. Three years earlier, he was awarded the International Peace Price for 1950, by the World Peace Council. Qi was a frontrunner of modernist painting and developed his own important expressive style, of the so-called Chinese scholarly painting.
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