The figure in this painting is Sun Duoci. It was made in 1936, when the couple were in love. This is one of Xu's greatest individual portraits. Xu's studio forms the background and the objects are deliberately placed there. On the cabinet is a Greek statue Xu brought from Europe, a plaster statue of Athens and face moulds of Tolstoy and Lenin. At the back left, a pot of Chinese porcelain filled with scrolls sits on the floor.
Xu Beihong (19 July 1895 - 26 September 1953) was a Chinese painter from Yixing, Jiangsu province. He is particularly known for his ink paintings of horses and birds. In 1915, he moved to Shanghai. Here he lived off selling his works. In 1917, he travelled to Tokyo in Japan to study painting here. Back in China, he was given a chair at Peking University. From 1919, Xu studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.
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