Vintage 24x31 Coloured Woodcut Print, 1959 Li Pingfan, Title: "We Want Peace"

Li Pingfan Artist, "We Want Peace", Created in 1959. Vintage 24x31 The picture is a coloured woodcut print. Li Pingfan (1922-2011) was from Tianjin. As a child, he would spend a lot of time in the Western Art Section of the Tianjin Municipal Art Museum. Later, he studied Japanese woodblock techniques, and in 1938, he started to create woodblocks. In 1943, he went to Japan for study. Mr. Li Pingfan was born in 1922 in Tianjin and studied Western art at the Tuanjin Art School. He lived in Japan during World War II where he studied the water-print method with Kawanishi Hide(1894-1965) and established a print society for overseas Chinese. Li Pingfan returned to China in 1950, and in 1953, began to impart his knowledge of the technique through lectures and demonstrations in Beijing, Shanghai, Sichuan, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and elsewhere. "Li Pingfan was editor of People's Art Publishing Company, chief editor of Print World (we assume a Chinese print magazine). In 1987, he was honored with the golden prize (we do not know by whom) for his contributions for art exchange between China and Japan. And in 1997, he donated all his private collection of Japanese prints to the Chinese National Gallery." 300 Japanese woodblock prints were donated to the National Museum of Fine Arts by China's celebrated print artist Li Pingfan on Jan.15. The lllllg with the artist's works, have been put on show in the museum. I will work with the shipping cost and pay 75% of it.