Artist: Chen Banding (1876 - 1970)
Playing Guqin in Deeply Forest
Ink and color on paper, Yisebiao mount, Vertical Axis Hanging Scroll
Painting (Sight): Length: 140 cm, Width: 51 cm
Dated: In The Autumn, The Seventh Month of Ding Hai Year (1947)
Signed/Seal(s): Signed, with Five seals

PROVENANCE:

These Important Paintings collection all originated from one prominent collector, spanning from Lot-95 to Lot-160 (Day 1), continuing from Lot-402 to Lot-456 (Day 2).

LOT NOTES:

Chen Banding (1876 - 1970) courtesy name Jingshan, pseudonym name Banding, is a Chinese modern painter, founder of First Beijing Painting Academy. His works combine the style of the Shanghai School and the Beijing School, forming a "Chen Style" style of small freehand. Chen Banding was born in a family of Chinese medicine practitioners in Keqiao Town , Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in the Qing Dynasty. His young parents died and his family was poor. When he was 15 years old, he came to Lanxi Yiqianzhuang as an apprentice. He only came into contact with painting and calligraphy. In 1895, he went to Shanghai with his uncle Wu Yin , working in Yan Xinhou's home, and engaged in rubbing and other work. In 1906, he been invited to Beijing, and gained fame with the help of Wu Changshuo. In 1917, he met Qi Baishi. In 1918, Chen Banding became a professor at the National Peking Art College. In 1920, he joined the Chinese Painting Research Society hosted by Jinbei Building. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he and Qi Baishi painted the Songshi Peony, Mao Zedong signed it, and presented the painting to Indonesian President Sukarno. This work was later circulated back to China and was auctioned in 2003 for 20.35 million yuan. In 1954, according to his proposal, the government established the National Academy of Fine Arts (now the Institute of Fine Arts of the China Academy of Art). In 1957, he and Ye Gongyi founded the Beijing Painting Academy. He passed away in 1970.