Lot Essay
Jia Haoyi was born in 1938 in Zunhua County, Hebei Province. He spent his childhood in poverty and working in the fields. He was influenced by his mother's love for painting and graduated in 1961 from the Beijing Academy of Art and remained to work at the Academy. In 1978, he became a professional painter at the Beijing Academy of Traditional Chinese Painting. In the 1960's and 70's, Jia Haoyi devoted most of his time to painting picture stories. During that same period however, he started in-depth studies of the big master pieces of classical Chinese painting, and at the same time studied the Western classical, impressionist and modern schools of painting. His works have participated in several national exhibitions of fine arts, group exhibitions and internatinal shows. In 1988, he held a One-man show in the China Art Gallery.