A Farmer in Early Spring
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1981 Oil on board 50 x 68 cm Signed lower right Zhongli in Chinese and dated '81 |
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1,100,000 - 2,200,000 256,000 - 512,000 32,800 - 65,700
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Sold Price
2,124,000 503,318 64,954
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Luo Zhongli used to live in the Daba Mountainous area as a peasant. He saw and felt Chinese peasants' burdens and endurance of tribulation and hardships, of harvest and assiduous labors, and of life and destiny. Luo Zhongli thus absorbed artistic nutrition from this original life, and started to paint the seldom known life style of the peasants. Among China's contemporary oil paintings, Luo Zhongli's artworks are special because peasants are always the subjects he expresses and reflects. Luo is therefore regarded as a figure representing the "rural expressionistic" group of China's contemporary art of oil painting. Through massive and plain style and strong colors, Luo Zhongli expresses his deep feelings such as sincere concern for indigenous culture, profound care for the destiny of peasants of the time, and realistic thought about peasant culture which is actually the root of Chinese culture. Luo Zhongli said: "I will never abandon peasants for the whole of my life."