Junbi Fang - Artist Info

About Junbi Fang

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Tchunpi Fan
  • Biography

    Born to a prominent family in Fuzhou, China in 1898, Fan Tchunpi at 14 went abroad to study in France, and in 1916 was accepted into the Académie Julian in Paris, the first female Chinese student ever accepted by that school. She further entered the École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux in 1917, from which she graduated with distinction in 1920, then went on to gain admission to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris by examination. A number of Western masters, such as Ingres, Delacroix, and Matisse were graduates of that school, as well as Chinese artists who worked in the oil medium such as Lin Fengmian, Liu Haisu, Xu Beihong, Pan Yuliang, and Wu Guanzhong.

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