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Huang Xinbo (1916-80)

Forever Spring

1977

Woodblock print

55 x 37 cm

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After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Huang Xinbo spent the Civil War years (1946-49) in Hong Kong, but returned to Guangzhou to serve the newly established PRC. The Cultural Revolution years were hard on him, but in 1979, he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the China Artists’ Association. To the end of his life, Huang Xinbo’s prints glorified revolutionary China. Here he celebrates the perennial enthusiasm and determined advance of youth. Large red and white roses are motifs in several later prints.

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Muban Educational Trust registration number huaxb002