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After Wu Guanzhong, Chinese Scroll
After Wu Guanzhong, Chinese Scroll
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After Wu Guanzhong, Chinese Scroll
Chinese Hand Painted Painting Scroll
Wu Guanzhong was born in 1919 in Jiangsu Province. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-arts in Paris on scholarship. While some of his contemporaries chose to stay in the West, Mr. Wu returned to China to teach at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and other institutions. He was sent to a labor camp during the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution, and did not hold his first solo show until he was 59.
Mr. Wu's landscapes, which combine Western oil painting and Chinese ink techniques, are prized by collectors.
In 2007, his "Ancient City of Jiaohe" sold for 37 million renminbi, or about $5 million at the time, in Beijing. It was painted during a trip Mr. Wu took to the Xinjiang region of China. In December, his "The Great Falls of Tanzania" sold for 30.8 million renminbi, also in Beijing.

Mr. Wu had an impact on the way the Western art world viewed Chinese painting. In 1992, he was the first living Chinese artist to have a solo exhibition at the British Museum in London.

In 1991, France made him an officer of l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2002, he was the first Chinese artist to be awarded the Médaille des Arts et Lettres by the Académie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France.
Mr. Wu was active to the end. The South China Morning Post reported that he created four last works this year. They will be displayed in Hong Kong this month.
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