Description
Tchang Ta-Ts’ien
Un Grand Peintre de la Chine Contemporaine
by Chu Ling
Chang Dai Chien
A Great Painter of Contemporary China
Published in Paris by Editions Euros, 1960,
Hardcover. Condition: Good+.
No Jacket
First edition, first printing
Small octavo, 23.2×16.8cm
Pages 47
Firm binding, internally fine
30 plates, plus 7 text illustrations
Text in FRENCH
Chang Dai-chien or Zhang Daqian (Chinese: 張大千; Wade–Giles: Chang Ta-ch’ien; 1899 – 1983) was one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Originally known as a guohua (traditionalist) painter, by the 1960s he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter. In addition, he is regarded as one of the most gifted master forgers of the twentieth century.