Lot Essay
Yang Yanping was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province in 1934. She studied architecture at Qinghua University in Beijing and graduated in 1958. As part of the curriculum she took art course with Wu Guanzhong, Zeng Shanqing and many others. In 1956, she married Zeng Shanqing. For the next years, while working, she studied landscape painting, figure painting and portraiture, concentrating on oil painting. During the Cultural Revolution she was assigned to be an art worker at the Industrial Art Design Department of the Beijing Art Agency, and was transferred to its Oil Painting Department in 1968. During the years 1976-80, she was active at the National History Museum and intensified her studies of traditional Chinese ink painting. She currently resides with her husband Zeng Shanqing in the United States.