CAT ON A ROCK

As discussed by Klaas Ruitenbeek, Pan Tianshou was one of the most important finger painters in 20th-century China. In the 1960s he employed this technique frequently to produce some of his most expressive and innovative works. His large depiction of two vultures on a rock, now in the Pan Tianshou Memorial Museum, and signed with the same artistic name, displays the same jagged strokes, wet palette, and watchful creatures (X. Yang, Tracing the Past Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in Twentieth-Century China, Palo Alto, 2010, pp. 394-5).