The sale nearly doubles the previous record-holder of the title, Amrita Sher-Gil's 1937 The Story Teller, which was sold for ...

Xu Beihong was a Chinese painter best known for his traditional ink paintings of horses, birds, and landscapes. With a masterful command of his medium, the artist was able to achieve a sense of ...

The most often quoted appraisal of Zhang Daqian, an artist at the summit of 20th-century Chinese art, is by another great modern artist Xu Beihong, who referred to him as "a person seen once in 500 ...

Xu Beihong, Xu Zhimo, Jiang Biwei, Lu Xiaoman, Wu Hufan, Bertrand Russell and Pearl Buck. They redefied the conventions of the time and shaped the cultural path China has followed to this day.

Xu Beihong (1895-1953) was an outstanding Chinese artist and educator of the fine arts. His works cover a wide range of styles and mediums, though he is best known for his horse paintings.

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The most often quoted appraisal of Zhang Daqian, an artist at the summit of 20th-century Chinese art, is by another great modern artist Xu Beihong, who ...