拍品專文
Lin Fengmian was born in Meixian, Guangdong Province in 1900. At the age of eighteen, he travelled to France on a government-sponsored work study program. During his seven years in France, he studied Western drawing and painting techniques at the Ecole Nationale Superieure in Paris and Dijon. In addition to this academic training, his experiences outside the classroom brought him in touch with the modern Western art movements of those days, such as Post Impressionism, Fauvism and Primitivism. The works of Matisse and Modigliani in particular impressed the young artist who began developing his own style with blending Western and Chinese traditions. His works were selected for exhibition in the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1924. Lin Fengmian returned to China in 1925 and was appointed Director of the Beijing National Art College (the precursor to the Central Academy of Fine Art). At the invitation of Cai Yuanpei, Lin founded the Hangzhou National Art Academy and became its first principal. From there he led the "New Art Movement" and published extensive writings on how to fuse Western and Chinese art. Lin Fengmian moved to Hong Kong in 1977. In 1989, the National Museum of History held his Ninety Years Retrospective Exhibition in Taipei.