GU Yuan (1919–1996) Meeting Chinese Woodcut 1947 Reprint c.1952–57

Description

GU Yuan (1919–1996) – Meeting

Chinese woodcut originally created in 1947, this example being a later printing dating from approximately 1952–1957.

The composition depicts an animated meeting gathered around a table, rendered in the powerful black-and-white graphic language characteristic of Gu Yuan’s early woodcuts.

Gu Yuan (1919–1996) was one of the important figures of twentieth-century Chinese woodblock printmaking. In 1938, he joined the Communist forces in Shaanxi. His work became closely associated with the development of modern Chinese revolutionary and social-realist printmaking. He later served as President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

Dimensions:
Sheet: 36.8 × 24 cm
Woodcut/image: 19.8 × 13.6 cm

A superb and highly characteristic example of mid-twentieth-century Chinese printmaking.