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	Catalogue Number			price	Approximate size	Button
	762.	Summer Heat, original oil painting by Tang Hai Guo His son bought him an apartment at the beach to show off to his friends, but to save money, he bought one on the backside of the building, away from the sea breeze. The heat in southern China is always tough to bear, usually about 9 out of the 12 months of the year. Here he sits in his chair with no shirt, a light hanging down from the ceiling with no lampshade, as is typical in many households, still, here, watching TV, and fanning himself. The writing on the wall in the background laments that the typhoon never came: even though typhoons pose danger, at least they have cooling winds [typhoon is from the Chinese, tai feng, much wind]. Tang Hai Guo takes his inspiration from figurative artists and expressionism, and we think that, in this one, he has made a really cool statement of social commentary about life in Southern China, in a really fun and different way. To see more of the art of Tang Hai Guo, included in the Leona Craig Art Gallery, on-line, please visit the Tang Hai Guo Page.		$3,500	90x120cm

	765.	Spring Flood Tide at Guangji Bridge, original mineral pigment (yan cai) painting by Hong Bao, 2010 Hong Bao is a younger artist who has decided to specialize in an ancient Chinese art: yan cai, or mineral pigment painting. With paints mixed from minerals, the painting sparkles as the light is caught by the tiny grains of rock that are used for the pigments. Indeed, yan cai was a lost art, created by Chinese but lost from its artistic tradition. Fortunately, the Japanese carried this artform over to their culture, centuries ago, and the Chinese were able to bring it back to China, once again, from Japan, more recenlty. This is a painting of one of the eight famous sights to see, in Chaozhou, in the northeast of Guangdong Province, done in a playful style, in yan cai.		$3,500	90x120cm

	709.	Sounds of Silence, pastel chalk on grit paper by Zhao Qian Xu (2005) When I look at this beautiful work of art, I am reminded of two artists: DaVinci and Degas. Degas was a master of pastels, and it takes a master to create such beautiful detail using pastel chalks. On the other hand, the pose and the straight face remind me of the Mona Lisa, so, I guess this would be Xu's response to the Mona Lisa with a contemporary background. It is a truly wonderful piece.		$10,000	107x60cm

	601.	White Polar Forest: original oil painting on canvas by Xue Sheng Tan (1983) This is a striking painting with beautiful colors of blue, green and gold. The style shows the strong impressionistic techniques and beautiful sense of color that Tan learned, as a student of Feng Mian Lin (Lin Feng Mian) of the Hangzhou School of contemporary Chines oil painting, in the early part of the 20th century. This painting has won awards and is one of the best that we have seen by Tan or his more famous wife, Jian Bai Xu. To view more of the works of Xue Sheng Tan (Tan Xue Sheng), on display, in the Leona Craig Art Gallery on-line, please visit the Xue Sheng Tan Page.		$17,000	15x20in 36.7x51.6cm

	104.	Youth in Contemplation: original oil painting on canvas by Jian Bai Xu, 1958 Most of the portraits by contemporary Chinese artists have girls or women as subjects, except, of course, for the unending parade of portraits of Chairman Mao, which are just too kitschy for our taste, so we though it only fair to include at least a few portraits of males. This portrait not only shows Jian Bai Xu's skill at brushwork, in portraiture, but, also, is a window in time into what was the common style, in China, in the 1950's when it was closed to the rest of the world. The colors are bright and happy.		$14,000	37x29cm

	777.	Nude in Chair, original oil painting by BaoCheng Zhao Flowers on the table and a statue of, perhaps, a nude, on the other side of her, she wears a questioning look. This is done a the more recent, abstract, sometimes surrealistic style, that Zhao has been working in, in recent years.		$7,000	60x60cm

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