Panda Diplomacy and the QANTAS Connection: an Important Chinese Painting by Zhang Zhenshi
Our next auction has a remarkable piece of history documenting the Australian- China relationship in its initial stages, the first thawing of the ‘Cold-War’ that followed WWII. Coming in as a complete unknown ‘Chinese Painting’, the work has many visual prompts to interpret, including red seals, the artist’s signature, and a beautiful calligraphic title: “Pure…
