signed Qigong, inscribed, and with twenty-six seals of the artist ink on paper Qigong(1912–2005) was a renowned Chinese calligrapher, artist, painter, connoisseur and sinologist.He learned Chinese calligraphy in his childhood, and studied various historical stone inscriptions of calligraphy in detail. He was deft in merging the characteristics of different eras and authors, and versatile in all the writing styles, especially the regular script,the running hand,and the cursive script styles.