A Chinese Hand-painted Theatre Curtain, two-panel
Black ink and watercolour on linen, with wooden horizontal dividers, cloth bordered in black, the upper panel painted with two cherubic babies clutching flowers and accompanied by a poem, the circular panel flanked by the Hehe Erxian twins, the lower panel centered with a detailed figurative scene depicting the story ‘Yi Ke Hong Xin’, in which a group of Communist Youth League of China members scold a farmer for selfishly farming the land for his own produce, as an ox watches on, with accompanying inscriptions and a quartet of cartouches enclosing variations of farmers.
Overall size 257cm x 142cm.