Shanghai contemporary artist Zhao-Nian Xi represents his country's beloved Huangshan Mountain in this watercolor by devoting the major portion of the painting to the sky. Occupying most of the space from the lower left corner to upper right corner, the sky communicates the vastness and heights of Huangshan's peaks. The technique is a variation of the "one corner" compositional formula of the Southern Sung school, which leaves half the picture nearly blank, adding tension to the subject. This art... Click for details
This original contemporary 20th Century Chinese watercolor painting measures 24 by 50 inches (painting only) and about 28 by 72 inches, including the brocaded scroll it is mounted on.
It has the seals and signature of the artist, Yang Ruifen along with what appears to be one collector's seal. Yang Ruifen (1950- ) is a contemporary artist ... Click for details
This original contemporary Chinese ink and watercolor painting measures 25 1/2 by 52 inches (painting only) and 29 by 72 inches, including the silk brocaded scroll it is mounted on.
It has two seals and the signature of the artist (undetermined at this time) along the left edge. It also has three additional collector's seal (along the rig... Click for details
Charming painting in oil on canvas of 2 Chinese men outside a brick building, one man is standing and watching another man engaged in writing or painting at a small table set up on the wooden boardwalk near the steps of a building, wonderfully painted, framed, signed: P.A. Morgan.
Size: 25" wide x 21 1/2" high
Wonderfully rendered painting of an Arhat with child attendant, painted in colors on silk and framed with silk boarder and wooden frame, gold details, 19th century.
Total size: 26 1/2" high x 21 3/4" wide
Size of artwork: 17 3/4" high x 15" wide
Watercolor and pencil painting on paper by Martin Cheng entitled "Show Off", framed with glass, wonderfully detailed painting of four colorful fish laying on a Chinese newspaper, artist's signature cleverly hidden among the words on the newspaper, dated 1990.
Total size: 18 3/4" wide x 14 1/2" high
Size of artwork: 13 1/2" wide x 9" high
One exotic flower is the focus of this ink and wash painting by Dr. Sun Zhongwei who during his long career was associated with the Shanghai Museum and the Shanghai Research Institute of Culture and History. Born in 1917 in Penglai, Shandong Province, he later moved with his family to Beijing (Peking) when his father, Sun Danlin, became Governmental Minister of Internal Affairs. Because of his father's position, he was able to spend time in the Imperial Palace to study and copy the famous painti... Click for details
This original contemporary 20th Century Chinese watercolor painting measures 18 by 70 inches (painting only) and about 22 by 86 inches, including the brocaded scroll it is mounted on.
It has the seal and signature of the artist, Jiang Jingyu, along with what appears to be 10 or 11 additional artist or collector seals.
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DESCRIPTION: A large, boldly colored Chinese ancestor portrait featuring seven generations of mandarins and their wives. Such paintings were commissioned by descendants, and this one is executed in classic ancestoral portrait style with the unsmiling subjects facing directly forward and seated on chairs with rounded backs, the men with hands and shoes showing and the women with their robes completely covering hands and feet.
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This original contemporary Chinese ink and watercolor painting measures 27 by 53 inches, and 31 by 75 inches, including the silk brocaded scroll it is mounted on.
It has the seal and signature of the artist, Jiao Loushi, on the upper left hand edge. It also has one collector's seal in the lower right corner.
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