Chiang Er-Shih Paintings - Chian Er-Shih - France

1 volume/folder with 16 color reproductions.
Copy 308 of an edition of 325.
Most are precious landscapes although there are also some of birds and plants.

Chiang Er-Shih (also transcribed in pinyin as Jiang Ershi, 1913-1972) was a distinguished Chinese painter, calligrapher and collector known for merging the traditional classic literati painting with influences from Impressionism and Western aesthetics.

Trajectory and training
• Lineage and studies: Born in 1913 in Yangzhou (Jiangsu Province, China) into a family of great intellectual and artistic prestige, the great-grandson of Chiang T'ing-Hsi (1669-1732), court painter maestro. He was a direct disciple of Huang Binhong (1864-1955), considered one of the last great masters of traditional Chinese painting (wenrenhua), from whom he learned through study and copying the old masters.
• Exile and international life: After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, he left the country for Hong Kong and later resided in New York before traveling extensively through Europe. In the 1960s he settled between Lucerne (Switzerland) and Marbella (Spain), where he developed much of his mature period until his death in 1972.

Artistic style and legacy
• East-West fusion: His work starts from the classic Chinese genres - mountainous landscapes, bamboo, flowers and birds - executed with ink and watercolor on paper, but it incorporates an intense color palette, impressionist elements and an experimental approach born from his travels through Europe and the Americas.
• Presence in museums: His paintings are part of important international collections, such as the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (Avery Brundage Collection) and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums), an institution that dedicated a monographic exhibition to him titled "A Wanderer between Worlds".

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