Artist: Yu Feian 于非闇 (1888 - 1959)
Bees and Flowers
Ink and color on paper, Yisebiao mount, Double Jingyan on top, Vertical axis hanging Scroll
Painting (Sight): Length: 97 cm, Width: 38 cm
Dated: In the Autum Day of Wu Yin year (1938)
Signed/Seal(s): Signed, with three Artist seals

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Nien Cheng 念鄭 or Zheng Nian 鄭念 (January 28, 1915 - November 2, 2009) was the pen name of Yao Nien-Yuan (姚念媛). She was a Chinese author known for recounting her experiences during the Cultural Revolution in her memoir Life and Death in Shanghai.

ARTIST BIO: Yu Feian 于非闇 (1888 - 1959) Chinese 20th century master artist of fine brushwork flowers and Birds, the first artist to write thin gold script calligraphy. He studied painting with Wang Rungi in early years. In 1912, at Mongolian higher Normal School. Since 1930, he teaches at the Art Department of North China University, the Jinghua Academy of Fine Arts, and a mentor of the Chinese Painting Research Museum Antiquities Exhibition. In 1935, was the beginning era of meticulous painting of flowers and birds, first he learned from Chen Hongshou's, and then studied The Song - Yuan Dynasty Arts of Zhao's meticulous flower painting method. in 1949 and later years, he became the vice president of Beijing Chinese Painting Research Institute, a researcher of National Fine Arts Research Center of Central Academy of Fine Arts and vice chairman of Beijing Academy. Some of Yu's Masterpiece are "Magnolia Oriole map", "Red Xingshan Partridge Map", "Dove of Peace Map", "Temporary sketch rare birds map" and many more.

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