Li Keran - Landscape in Red 1964
Landscape in Red 1964
131x84cm mounted Ink and Color on Paper
Sold for: USD 46.0 million
Auction house: Beijing Poly international Auction
Sale date: 4 June 2016
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer (domestic entrepreneur who began buying art two years ago)
Li Keran (李可染, 1907-1989) was a painter and art educator, who was a prominent figure in 20th-century Chinese art. He developed a personal style of landscape painting that was based upon the emulation of both ancient and contemporary masters.