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My mother has this Chinese ink painting of a horse. This painting was bought around 1950s in China. The wordings indicates a name "Bei Hong". Please help to identify the history of this painting. Thanks

hello, john


your painting is done by xu beihong, very famous
chinese art painter. known for painting horse's and is it worth something, of course.


aloha,
dennis

approximately 15,634 paintings are signed as being by Xu Beihong. Unfortunately for greedy and aspiring collectors, only a small fraction of them are genuine. this one is not.

Please check the lable on the outside edge when rolled up. This is likely to be printed rather than hand written. This piece looks like a quite high quality woodblock print from a studio such as RongBaoZhai in Beijing. They are sometimes very hard to tell from an original artwork.

Thanks for your advice. But how you can tell the difference? Is it the handwriting or the stamp?

John, if the piece is a Rongbaozhai (or other such) print, there will be a red seal with the publisher's name below the title on the label.

You can readily tell this is not a Xu Bei Hong work.

First Xu never clearly paints the detailed eye of the horse. He always hides them in the shadowed face of the horse.

Second,his horses are usually shown flowing through a composition, emphasizing the musculature and power of the nobel beast.

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