Peach and Cicada Chinese Watercolor Painting by Jin Yongnian

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Up for sale is an unusual Chinese horizontal painting, peaches and cicada*, watercolor on paper by Jin Yongnian (靳永年, father … more Up for sale is an unusual Chinese horizontal painting, peaches and cicada*, watercolor on paper by Jin Yongnian (靳永年, father of Jin Yuxi 靳羽西**), one of the most important artists of Ling Nan School (岭南画派***), signed and with three artist's seals, framed, private Manhattan collection
23 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (painting only), 33 1/2 x 16 in. (with frame)

*Peach and cicada are among the most popular Taoist symbols in traditional Chinese decorative arts. Peach indicates health and longevity while cicada represents resurrection.
**靳羽西Yue-Sai Kan or Jìn Yǔxī is a Chinese American television host and producer, entrepreneur, bestselling author and humanitarian. People magazine named her "the most famous woman in China" and Time magazine proclaimed her "the Queen of the Middle Kingdom."
***The Lingnan school of painting (嶺南畫派), also called the Cantonese school of painting, is a style of painting developed in the early 19th Century in the Guangdong or Lingnan region of China. In the late 19th century, scholars in China broke through entrenched, conservative thoughts and began to actively seek to create and promote new schools and styles of art. This not only cultivated a large amount of ideological progress among social elites but also gave birth to the "eclectic fusion of the Han Chinese and Western style, ancient and modern" Lingnan school. Lingnan school's strokes are complex and anti-tradition, with the goal of achieving magnificence and vividness. Influenced by Impressionism, Lingnan paintings focus on the light performance. Most of the colors are very bright, in stark contrast to the traditional ink wash painting, which in turn is pale, stressing "With paleness comes the soul of pens and ink". less