Historical Chairman Mao portrait up for auction
By Echo Shan (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2006-05-18 14:23
The original painting that served as a model for the
portrait of late Chairman Mao that hung in Tian’anmen Square during the 50s and
60s will be up for auction in early June and is expected to fetch at least one
million yuan (US$124,800).
Workers display
the portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong at an auction preview in Beijing
May 17, 2006.
[Xinhua] | | Created
in the early 1950s by Mao portraitist Zhang Zhenshi, the painting is 91 cm long
and 68.5 cm wide. Posters of the portrait were made and circulated throughout
the country.
Collected from a Chinese American
collector, the portrait is open to bidders at home and abroad at the auction.
The buyer is allowed to take it out of the nation, said the
auction organizer.
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