Huang Zhou

We authenticate, certify, issue certificates of authenticity (COA), appraise the value and broker the sale of paintings and drawings by HUANG Zhou.

Real name Liang-Cantang.

Chinese

Born in 1925, Lixian, Hebei province, China.

Died in 1997, Beijing, China, aged 72.

He spent most of his life in China.

Typical subject matter:

He typically painted a large number of donkeys, alone or in groups. He also painted riders on horses, as well as other domestic animals including hens and roosters. His donkeys are sometimes accompanied by a female figure on the side of the composition. He also painted figures – men and women – in colourful clothes, indoors or outdoors, doing their washing, looking after animals or sitting, reading, writing or doing other cultural domestic tasks.

Typical style:

Typically, he applied coloured flat tints very roughly, in rough patches, and then traced the outlines or details over in black ink, to identify his motifs. Overall, his style appears sketched out as his brushstrokes are rapid.

Typical material and media:

He mostly worked in Indian and coloured ink on paper.

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