LIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991) FisherwomenLIN FENGMIAN (1900-1991)FisherwomenInk and colour on paper, depicting three fishermen harvesting and retrieving fishing nets from their boat, signed at the bottom left corner, framed and glazed. 33.4cm (13 1/4in) high x 32.8cm (12 7/8in) wide.林風眠（1900-1991） 漁婦 設色紙本 鏡框Provenance: an English private collection, acquired by the owner's parents in China, and thence by descent來源：英國私人舊藏，由現所有者父母購自中國，並由後人保存迄今Lin Fengmian, a native of Meixian, Guangdong Province, is one of 20th century China's most important artists. His grandfather was a stone carver, his father a local painter. Lin learned both trades during his childhood and in 1919 travelled to France for six years to study and work at Dijon Art College and the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux-Arts in Paris. In France, Lin studied European painting, especially works by Matisse, Picasso, and Modigliani. In 1923 he travelled widely in Germany. In 1979, he settled in Hong Kong, where he lived out his life. Lin's work integrated the Impressionists' technique of working with outdoor lighting with ink and wash and successfully blended Western principles of composition with figure sketches using Chinese colour and ink. See Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, New Haven, 1997, pp.323-324.In the middle of the 1950s, the new Communist Chinese government encouraged artists to serve the people and depict scenes of common people at work. Along with artists from the Shanghai Artists Association, Lin Fengmian travelled several times to the fishing grounds at Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province. Since then, Lin Fengmian created a series of paintings portraying the life and work of fishing villages. See Art 60 Years in China 1949-1979, Shijiazhuang, 2009, pp.72-73.Compare with a related painting of fishing by Lin Fengmian, illustrated in The Collected Works of Lin Fengmian, Tianjin, 1994, plate 182.Compare also with a related painting of a fishing village by Lin Fengmian, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 November 2016, lot 2512.is_parse: 20230413image: yuzhan_bonhams_item.jpgsold_price_type: £