ARTIST(s): Yan Wenliang 颜文樑 (1893-1988) ink and color on paper, Framed Length: 34 1/2" x Width: 24 1/2" Signed/Seal(s): 1 artists seal PROVENANCE: Estate Collections of GENERAL YU BINDONG 俞濱東 (1903-1990) (AKA: 天宾) R.O.C. Presidential Palace Third Class of Major Generals, Director of Assistant Commissioner, Official bodyguard, Security guard brigade commander of the building controls, the affairs of state, presidential palace Internal business, printing and engraving branch. For more information about General Yu Bingdong 俞濱東, please follow this link: www.eden-galleries.com/yubindong/ Video Documentation on Youtube: https://youtu.be/W_mn9iHjgMY Video Documentation on Youku (China): https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDUxMzY4NzcwOA==.html The collections of General Yu Bingdong 俞濱東 presented and offered up to auctions: ON DAY-1: From Lot-125 through Lot-152, and continued from Lot-269 through Lot-296. ON DAY-2: from Lot-448 through Lot-487, and continued from Lot-620 through Lot-760. LOT NOTES: Yan Wenliang (1893-1988), style name as Dongchen, born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, painter, educator, pioneer of the first generation of oil painting in China, one of the founders of modern Chinese painting, with Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian and Liu Haisu they've been called "four headmasters". Yan Wenliang, Zhu Shijie and Hu Zizhong founded Suzhou Art College (later merged and renamed Nanjing Art College) and established Suzhou Art Museum in 1927. Yan Wenliang went to Paris College of Fine Arts in 1928 to study. After returning to China in 1932, he successively served as the president of Suzhou Art College, the head of the Department of fine arts of Central University, the president of East China branch of Central Academy of fine arts, the vice president of Zhejiang Academy of fine arts and the professor of Central Academy of fine arts. Yan Wenliang's works focus on the spirit of realism and are good at combining the Eastern aesthetic and national spirit with the Western expression techniques, creating a unique artistic style, which is the representative of Chinese modern realism painting.