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• Lot n° 3031 Zhang Li (b. 1958) "Wind & Snow of Chang Bai Mountain" Oil on joined canvas Unsigned; titled in pencil, in another hand, on a tag strung to the frame's hanging wire 40.5" H x 83" W Other Notes: Zhang Li is another prominent realist painter represented in the Jones Collection. Born in Beijing in 1958, he joined the People's Liberation Army at the age of 18, serving as an officer while also studying painting. He graduated from the Fine Art Department of the People's Liberation Army in 1983. Zhang is well known for his exquisite figurative works, particularly portraiture. His paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Chinese National Gallery, and he has received numerous accolades, including the Artist's Excellence Award in China and the Grand Prize in the American Society of Portrait Artists' International Portrait Competition. The present work is exceptionally rare within the artist's career: a large-scale, multi-figure battle scene depicting the everyday heroics of the Eighth Route Army during an engagement with the Japanese Imperial Army in 1943. The Eighth Route Army, known for operating in remote areas of Northeast China, then largely under Japanese control, was also notable for the number of women in its ranks, as reflected here in the upper right with Zhang's depiction of a female soldier tending to the wounded. Such canvases were vital to the reimagining of contemporary art in China, redirecting realism away from the idealized forms of propaganda and toward the gritty realities of history, realities that, in many cases, proved all the more heroic. Visual: Overall good appearance. Scattered, fine craquelure, primarily in the upper right quadrant. A vertical seam attendant with the joining of two pieces of canvas down the length of the work to the right of center and an area of unstable craquelure in the center of the seam. A soft, scattered 11" vertical surface scuff along the left portion of the upper edge. Blacklight: No evidence of restoration. Frame: 43.25" H x 85.5" W x 2.5" D