Together with Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and Fu Baoshi, Li Keyan is known as the five great masters of Chinese painting for one hundred years.
The "leak-picking myth" that we want to share today is the work of landscape master Li Keyan.
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In today's auction market, many of Li Keyan's works have sold for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Li Keyan's "Map of Ten Thousand Waters and a Thousand Mountains"
In 2019, his landscape painting "Ten Thousand Waters and Thousand Mountains" sold for 207 million yuan, which is not unusual in Li Keyan's paintings.
In November 2015, "Ten Thousand Mountains Red Everywhere", which was painted in the same series as "Ten Thousand Waters and Thousand Mountains", started at a sky-high price of 5800 yuan. After several rounds of competition, it was finally sold for 184 million yuan.
Li Kedian "Ten Thousand Mountains Red All Over"
But you certainly can't imagine that decades ago, Rong Baozhai once pocketed this "Ten Thousand Mountains And Red Everywhere" for 80 yuan.
In the 1970s, China's art market was still in a state of turmoil, and many painters were very poor. By around 1978, Li Keyan's painting was only 70 yuan a painting.
However, in just over half a century, the price of the works of the masters of calligraphy and painting has increased by more than 10 million times or more, which is probably unimaginable to the masters before they were alive.
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"Ten Thousand Mountains And Red Mountains" is actually a group of paintings, a total of 7 works.
Li Keyan created four paintings of "Ten Thousand Mountains And Red Everywhere" in Beijing, two of which were large and large, which were given to the Beijing Fine Arts Association by Mr. Li Keyan.
Later, it was found that one of the paintings was collected in the Beijing Academy of Painting, while the other was lost overseas, and was eventually purchased by Hunan Radio and Television Station and sent back to China.
One of the other two small-sized paintings was one that rongbaozhai "picked up" and bought.
In addition to "Ten Thousand Mountains And Red Everywhere", Li Lao also has many excellent paintings, and his painting style boldly breaks through tradition and has a different sense of atmosphere from traditional landscape painting.
What is even more valuable is that Li Lao is still a patriot and has integrated his patriotism into many of his works.
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Li Keyan was born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, to poor and illiterate peasants, but Li Keyan was gifted with art learning from an early age.
When he was a child, he happened to see several scholars painting in the back room next to a small pavilion, and he leaned against the window for a long time.
The painter inside saw him and let him come in to see, and since then, Li Keyan has been here every day to learn painting with scholars, with great talent and hard work, Li Keyan has made rapid progress.
Li Keyan"Huangshan Yanxia"
Later, he studied with the local painter Qian Zhizhi and immersed himself in learning painting.
When he was in his 40s, Li Keyan also worshiped Qi Baishi as his teacher, polished ink for his master day and night, and watched Qi Baishi paint, integrating and penetrating, and the level of landscape painting went up to a higher level.
On the occasion of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Keyan, who was full of patriotic enthusiasm, created a number of anti-war paintings to spread the idea of patriotic national salvation and encouraged the patriotic enthusiasm of many people.
Li Keyan", "Jinggangshan"
As a famous work of Li Keyan, "Ten Thousand Mountains And Red Mountains" is named after Mao Zedong's "Qinyuan Chun Changsha": "Look at the red mountains of Ten Thousand Mountains, and the layers of forests are dyed." ”
This work depicts the red of Changsha in autumn, praises the great rivers and mountains of the mainland, and expresses endless patriotic fighting spirit.
Such an artist with both artistic background and patriotic enthusiasm, it is reasonable that his paintings can be auctioned at a sky-high price.
What we need to pay attention to is not only the price of the work itself, but also the hard work and spiritual pattern of Elder Li, and do our best to contribute to the development of traditional Chinese art.
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