Tang Yunyu

Signed in Chinese (lower left)
Executed in 1930

Private Asian collection

China Oil Painting Series - Tang Yunyu, China, 2009, Shanghai People's Fine Art's Publishing House, p. 38

There is cracking of the paint in the upper half of the canvas and some damage to the canvas as top left. There is a pinprick hole at the top right of the canvas.
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Tang Yunyu was born in 1906 in Shanghai and took an interest in art from an early age.  After graduating from the Shanghai Art Academy, she went to study abroad in Japan and France, returning to Shanghai in 1930 to teach at the Shanghai Art Academy.  She played an active role in the local art scene and was an important member of a not-for-profit art organization, The Painting Research Institute, alongside fellow artists such as Pan Yuliang, Zhu Qizhan and Wang Jiyuan, who together held a group exhibition to promote Modern Art.  The work in this sale, Still Life, is representative of the style of that period in Shanghai and exudes a refined gentility, set in a harmonious atmosphere and is painted in an impressionistic style.