Artist: Feng Zikai (November 9, 1898 - September 15, 1975)
Homecoming
Ink and color on paper, Yisebiao mount, Vertical Axis.
Painting (Sight): Length: 75 cm, Width: 39 cm
Dated: In The Spring of Yi You Year (1945)
Signed/Seal(s): Signed, with an Artist seal

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:

Feng Zikai (November 9, 1898 - September 15, 1975), whose original name was Fengrun, also known as Ren and still, and his nickname was Ziqi, was later changed to Feng Zikai, his hall name was Yuanyuantang, and his pen name was "TK" ( FONG TSE KA), whose Buddhist name is Yingxing, was born in Shimenwan, Chongde County, Zhejiang Province (now Shimenwan, Shimen Town, Tongxiang City, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province), a modern Chinese calligrapher, painter, writer, essayist, translator, and cartoonist. He is known as "the most artistic artist in modern China" and "the originator of modern Chinese comics". Feng Zikai studied painting under Li Shutong and Xia Zunzun , who taught Chinese literature. In the sixth year of the Republic of China (1917), he organized the Tongyin Painting Group with his classmates and joined the Dongshi Society , which studied gold and stone seal carving . In the eighth year of the Republic of China (1919), he held his first exhibition of works with colleagues from the Art Association. In the tenth year of the Republic of China (1921), he traveled east to Japan and studied oil painting at the Kawabata Western Painting School in Tokyo. In the 11th year of the Republic of China (1922), he returned to China and taught painting and music at Chunhui Middle School in Shangyu, Zhejiang . After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Feng Zikai successively served as Shanghai Municipal People's Representative, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, chairman of the Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Artists Association, vice chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and president of the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy. On September 15, 1975, Feng Zikai died in the emergency observation room of Shanghai Huashan Hospital at the age of 77. Feng Zikai has made outstanding achievements in comics, calligraphy, translation and other aspects. He has published more than 160 calligraphy and painting collections, prose works, art theory and music theory works. His paintings mostly use children as subjects, are humorous and reflect social phenomena, was included in primary school textbooks during the Republic of China, and his prose was included in Taiwanese Chinese textbooks. Among them, comics are favored by the world for their artistic proposition of "high quality and popular music" and the artistic characteristics of "the big can be seen in the small, and there is lingering sound beyond the strings".