PAN YULIN

Renowned as the first Chinese female modern artist established firmly in the Western art scene, Pan Yulin’s art is bold and firm in terms of both her brushstrokes and ambition. Nevertheless, feminine quality and consciousness were never lost in her work. Received academic training in Shanghai and Paris, Pan’s works demonstrate techniques from the Fauvism and Impressionist schools of art but always retained an individual style of her own which displayed the unmistakable characteristics of traditional Chinese painting. Pan’s works can be found in the Asian art collections of well-known French museums, including Musée Cernuschi, Musée National d’Art Moderne and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. When she passed away, she had bequeathed to the Anhui Museum in China several thousand of her original works and sketches, as a tribute to her native village.