ARTIST(s): Li KuChan 李苦禅 (1899 - 1983) ink on paper, Framed, set behind glass Title: Banana and Bamboo leaves Painting (Sight): Length: 82 cm, Width: 46 cm Signed/Seal(s): 2 artist seals Dated: in the second month of winter in Xin You Year (1981) 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/CdiGidqkQYk Video Documentation on Youku (China): http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTE3MjYyODkwOA==.html The collections of General Yu Bindong 俞濱東 presented and offered up to auctions: ON DAY-1: From Lot-121 through Lot-141, and continued from Lot-233 through Lot-251. ON DAY-2: From Lot-393 through Lot-413, and continued from Lot-481 through Lot-493. LOT NOTES: Li Kuchan 李苦禅 (1899 - 1983) born in Gaotang County of Shandong Province, was a great painter, calligrapher and art educator, is a great master of the traditional Chinese free idea painting. During the early years, he studied Western painting techniques in an art school in Beijing. Later on, he became a student of renowned Chinese artist Qi Baishi, and began to study Chinese painting. In 1930, he worked as a professor at the Hangzhou Art School and Beiping Art School, as well as at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Li well combined western techniques and spirituality in sculpture and painting into his Chinese painting teaching. He specialized in bird-and-flower paintings in the freehand style that captures the spirit of its subjects through expressive calligraphic brushwork and simplified forms.