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ZHU QIZHAN Chinese 1892-1996 WC Chrysanthemum

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ZHU QIZHAN Chinese 1892-1996 WC Chrysanthemum
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Chrysanthemum and Chinese bonsai; Chinese ink and watercolour painting on paper; hanging scroll; signed Zhu Qizhan (1892-1996) with one artist red seal; 123 x 34 cm. The painter and calligrapher Zhu Qizhan was born in 1892 in a wealthy family in Taicang, in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. At the age of seven, he began studying painting with a private tutor, and as early as his twenties he became professor at the Shanghai Arts Academy. He later travelled in Japan, where he studied Western oil painting methods. This experience, as well as his discovery of painters like Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso or Cezanne played a decisive role in his work, from then-on marked by the constant influence of Western painting, in the style, colors or techniques he used. Deceased at the age of 105, Zhu Qizhan is today considered as a major painter in the history of Chinese art, particularly because of the transition he undertook between traditional Chinese painting and contemporary art. A contemporary art museum inaugurated in Shanghai in 1995 was named after Zhu Qizhan.