Signed; Marc Riboud - Huang Shan - 1989

Superb work by Marc Riboud in very good condition and signed by the artist! On the right bank of the Yangtze, 500 kilometers west of Shanghai, the granite peaks of Huang Shan and their century-old pines are almost always wrapped in mist. Since the Tang and Song dynasties, this mountain has inspired painters who continue, as do poets, monks, and lovers, to climb the thousands of steps carved into the rock. There, the spectacle is so close to painting that everyone wonders. Were Chinese painters faithful realists rather than the inventors of such a distinctive style? Or is it nature that has imitated art? Today, a crowd of Chinese and a handful of Westerners climb each year to the Capital of Heaven, where the windswept mists part to reveal the most beautiful landscape in the world. A sacred place for poets and painters, Huang Shan embodies the permanence of the Chinese soul. Marc Riboud, the photographer, François Cheng, the poet, bear witness here to this timeless China.