PROVENANCE:

Lin Fengmian experienced Chongqin Period (1938-1945) and Hangzhou Period (1945-1951) of Anti-Japanese War in 1940s, theme of this period is mainly landscape, beauty, flowers, still life and theatrical figures. Works reveal lucidity, moods turn to gentle. The loud shout and heavy sorriness convert to quiet revery and rich and colorful express. In the book Modern Chinese Art, the author evaluated the Lin Fengmian in this period: "Lucid and lively, bright-colored and beautiful, warm, simple, deep and serene, hesitating, lonely, lively and quiet", and "Surging with vitality of life, woven with dreams of beauty and good" in the mass.

Lin Fengmian's "Lady" series are all square layout, abandoned traditional scroll slowly narrative style, the picture simple and bright with prominent theme. Mainly colorful, suitable with ink, the light source color and complementary color of Impressionism, subjective color of Fauvism and Expressionism, Comprehensive Cubist flat color were all exhibited at this work. Dealing the lines against traditional aesthetic standards that "strength pass through the paper", draw on the traditional porcelain painting features, brushwork tough and powerful, all these made character even more brilliant texture and luster. Compared with several of his "Lady" works, this Beauty which created in the 1940s is more plump composition and distribute character features prominent warm. Concise type, vivid, especially the brushwork highly colored the background of characters, different in approaches with Western painting masters Matisse but equally satisfactory in purpose. This kind of beauty has changed classical style lady' s tender and gentle temperament, warm and bright with attractive flavor, quiet and provocatively, lonely and solitary.