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352. PAN YU LIN or PAN YULIANG (1895-1977). STILL LIFE WITH FRUITS, 1939. Oil on board, signed and dated upper right. Contrasted on the back with the mention Paris and the date 1939 and the handwritten inscription: Paris 1943, Renite ? This inscription could indicate an exhibition date, Pan Yuliang having presented 4 works at the Salon National des Beaux-Arts that year including a still life (under N°4024). 50 x 60,5 cm. An article on the artist bears the following title: A Western Artist in China and a Chinese Artist in France. This summarizes the symbolic significance of this artist who created a bridge between two cultures. After a difficult childhood, Pan Yu-Lin was admitted to the Shanghai Art Academy in 1920, enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lyon the following year and became the first Chinese to participate in the Italian National Exhibition in Rome in 1925. She returned to Shanghai in 1928 where she presented her first solo exhibition, which was a first for a woman painter in China. Pan Yu Lin returned to France in the summer of 1937 and enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the class of Lucien Simon. She settled on rue Vercingétorix in the Montparnasse district, not far from the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Her studio was immortalized in the film "Chez ceux de Montparnasse" in 1950 where we see the artist in the middle of her decor, surrounded by the objects she represents in her still lifes. She was well received by this informal and cosmopolitan group of artists known today as the School of Paris, and remained there for nearly 40 years until 1977 when she died at the age of 82. She is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery surrounded by intellectuals and artists. She participated in numerous exhibitions and won prizes at the Salon des Artistes Français, Salon d'Automne, Salon National des Beaux-arts, Salon des Indépendants, Art libre, and was awarded a Gold Medal by the city of Paris in 1959. Shortly after his death, in accordance with his wishes, his relatives asked the Chinese government to repatriate his works to China. These works were transported to Hefei, in the province of Anhui, and the family donated a large part of this collection of thousands of prints and 361 oil paintings to the Anhui Museum. In 2013, this museum authorized the Li-Ching Foundation to carry out the online display of this archive and the enhancement of the works. His rich and tumultuous life has been the subject of novels and films, numerous academic studies, colloquia, exhibitions including the last one in France at the Cernuschi Museum in 2017, in Hong Kong in 2018. His works will be featured at the Cernushi Museum from October 2022 to February 2023 during the exhibition "Ink in Motion", a history of Chinese painting in the 20th century. National Art Museum of China in Beijing; Anhui Museum in Hefei; Cernuschi Museum, Paris; National Museum of Modern Art.
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352. PAN YU LIN or PAN YULIANG (1895-1977). STILL LIFE WITH FRUITS, 1939. Oil on board, signed and dated upper right. Contrasted on the back with the mention Paris and the date 1939 and the handwritten inscription: Paris 1943, Renite ? This inscription could indicate an exhibition date, Pan Yuliang having presented 4 works at the Salon National des Beaux-Arts that year including a still life (under N°4024). 50 x 60,5 cm. An article on the artist bears the following title: A Western Artist in China and a Chinese Artist in France. This summarizes the symbolic significance of this artist who created a bridge between two cultures. After a difficult childhood, Pan Yu-Lin was admitted to the Shanghai Art Academy in 1920, enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lyon the following year and became the first Chinese to participate in the Italian National Exhibition in Rome in 1925. She returned to Shanghai in 1928 where she presented her first solo exhibition, which was a first for a woman painter in China. Pan Yu Lin returned to France in the summer of 1937 and enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the class of Lucien Simon. She settled on rue Vercingétorix in the Montparnasse district, not far from the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Her studio was immortalized in the film "Chez ceux de Montparnasse" in 1950 where we see the artist in the middle of her decor, surrounded by the objects she represents in her still lifes. She was well received by this informal and cosmopolitan group of artists known today as the School of Paris, and remained there for nearly 40 years until 1977 when she died at the age of 82. She is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery surrounded by intellectuals and artists. She participated in numerous exhibitions and won prizes at the Salon des Artistes Français, Salon d'Automne, Salon National des Beaux-arts, Salon des Indépendants, Art libre, and was awarded a Gold Medal by the city of Paris in 1959. Shortly after his death, in accordance with his wishes, his relatives asked the Chinese government to repatriate his works to China. These works were transported to Hefei, in the province of Anhui, and the family donated a large part of this collection of thousands of prints and 361 oil paintings to the Anhui Museum. In 2013, this museum authorized the Li-Ching Foundation to carry out the online display of this archive and the enhancement of the works. His rich and tumultuous life has been the subject of novels and films, numerous academic studies, colloquia, exhibitions including the last one in France at the Cernuschi Museum in 2017, in Hong Kong in 2018. His works will be featured at the Cernushi Museum from October 2022 to February 2023 during the exhibition "Ink in Motion", a history of Chinese painting in the 20th century. National Art Museum of China in Beijing; Anhui Museum in Hefei; Cernuschi Museum, Paris; National Museum of Modern Art.
