Inscription: Painted for Juemi as a memento in the early spring of the Jiwei year (1919), Beihong.
Seal: "Xu Beihong of Jiangnan" (square seal), "Grasping subtlety" (square seal with incised letters) and "Live in the wide house of the world" (square seal)
This work was made for Ji Juemi before Xu Beihong went abroad to study in France in spring 1919. The modelling and structure of the horses are very accurate and show the young Xu Beihong's exceptional talent for realism. Kang Youwei called it "an enchanting sketch" in honour of his ability.
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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