Fine painting depicting a character on the shores of a lake, amidst vegetation. Inscription and artist’s sigil in the top left. Zhang Daqian is one of the best known and most sought after 20th century painters. Born in 1899 in the Sichuan province, his first forays in painting were the copies of classic works, and the development of his style was heavily influenced by masters such as Shitao and Bada Shanren. A particularly prolific painter, Zhang Daqian produced about 500 paintings per year, many of which were conceived as gifts for distinguished personalities of the time. Especially famous was his meeting with Pablo Picasso in 1956, with whom he exchanged paintings; a meeting remembered as that between the East and the West. Some of his copies of classic Chinese works are in museums such as the Metropolitan of New York, the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston and the Freer Gallery of Washington D.C. Zhang Daqian’s paintings are often auctioned, the last of which during Christie’s London’s Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 9 May 2017, lot 87. Woodworm markings on the edges. 185x48 cm inside of the scroll.