Twelve Landscape Screens

Each of the twelve panels are 180cm long and 47cm wide and have individual titles. They illustrate natural scenery using primarily soft pinks, browns and blues. Scenery in the paintings was inspired by Qi Baishi's travels throughout rural China, while the depictions of houses were inspired by Qi's own village in Hunan. Each individual panel features Qi's signature seal carvings, as well as an accompanying poem written in calligraphy. == History ==

The panels were painted in 1925 while Qi was living in Beijing, Ten of the twelve panels were publicly displayed in 1954 by the China Artists Association, which Qi led at the time. After his death in 1957, the China Artists Association and the Ministry of Culture displayed all twelve panels in a 1958 posthumous exhibition. who went on to keep them in Taiwan for multiple decades. A representative for the auction house revealed that almost all of the bidders were from Mainland China, including the buyer, but declined to share further information about their identity. The paintings are currently housed in a private collection. == Notes ==