Large Framed Abstract Ink Painting by Qin Feng

Artist: Qin Feng (Chinese B. 1961)
Title: West Wind East Water #0616
Medium: Ink and Coffee on Silk and Cotton paper
Year of Creation: 2006
Mark: Signed with artist's mark lower right
Measurement: 74 1/2" x 37 1/4" (with frame)
Provenance: From a prominent American British collection.
Purchased from Michael Goedhuis in 2006 for 55000usd (A copy of Art Metadata entry from the previous owner will be included).

Biography (Courtesy of Artsy)
Considered a leading ink painter, Qin Feng represents China’s avant-garde movement. Invited by the German government to curate an exhibition in Germany in order to promote cultural exchange between the two countries, Qin moved to Berlin in the ’90s where he began to fuse Western modernism and the Chinese ink tradition in abstract compositions. Feng uses traditional calligraphic materials but employs his brush with the unrestrained energy of the Abstract Expressionists. Inspired by his upbringing in Xinjiang, a multicultural intersection of the silk roads, Qin has incorporated Chinese, Uighur, Arabic, and Russian language into his work. In recent years, Qin has overlaid pieces of ancient Chinese furniture over ink paintings, reconfiguring them within his explosive abstract marks.