Fu Baoshi - God of Cloud and Great Lord of Fate 1954
God of Cloud and Great Lord of Fate 1954
114x315cm ink and color on paper
Sold for: USD 35.03 million
Auction house: Poly International Auction, Beijing
Sale date: 4 June 2016
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
Fu Baoshi (Chinese: 傅抱石), or Fu Pao-Shih, (1904-1965) was a Chinese painter from Xinyu, Jiangxi Province. He went to Japan to study the History of Oriental Art in the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1933. He translated many books from Japanese and carried out his own research. In painting itself, he brought Japanese visual elements to the Chinese ink painting tradition.