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Lot Essay
Qi Baishi was a master in capturing the liveliness of small things in his xieyi-styled ink paintings. Crabs were a subject he painted often and knew well. The animals are rendered beautifully with lightness and simplicity that offered abstraction but enough realism to suggest the pleasures nature can offer.
Rolf A. Stein (1911-1999) was a distinguished scholar, one of many interests and talents bridging over different cultures from those of the Chinese and the Japanese to that of the Tibetans. The breath of his scholarly achievements range from reference works on the Epic of King Gesar to studies on the iconography of Avalokiteshvara. A longtime member of the French School of the Far East (EFEO), he was also chair of Chinese studies and professor at Collège de France from 1966-1981. Stein was a researcher in Beijing from 1946 to early 1948.
Rolf A. Stein (1911-1999) was a distinguished scholar, one of many interests and talents bridging over different cultures from those of the Chinese and the Japanese to that of the Tibetans. The breath of his scholarly achievements range from reference works on the Epic of King Gesar to studies on the iconography of Avalokiteshvara. A longtime member of the French School of the Far East (EFEO), he was also chair of Chinese studies and professor at Collège de France from 1966-1981. Stein was a researcher in Beijing from 1946 to early 1948.