LI Keran  ¡°Jinggang Mountains¡±
Color on paper, mounted
176.5¡Á128©M

Caption£ºwith Zou Peizhu¡¯s signature at the back on 11th April, 1999

Exhibition£º
1.¡°The Exhibition of the Twelve Most Famous Chinese Masters¡±£¬Poly Art Museum£¬2010.
2. ¡°The Exhibition of the Twelve Most Famous Chinese Masters (III)¡±£¬ Poly Art Museum£¬October, 2011.

Publication£º
1. ¡°Jinggang Mountains¡± Poster£¬Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House£¬September, 1977.
2. Calendar of 1978£¬SINOCHEM Group.
3. ¡°Fine Arts¡± Magazine, 1978. 
4. ¡°Xinhua Monthly¡±£¬inside of the back cover£¬the 6th edition of 1978£¬People¡¯s Publication House. 
5. ¡°Paintings of 99 Chinese Masters in the 20th Centuary¡±£¬Page 58£¬Lingnan Publication House.
6. ¡°The Long March¡±£¬Page 41, LI Keran¡¯s Fund of Art, Poly Art Museum, October, 2010.                               
7. ¡°Album of Jinggang Mountains¡±£¬ LI Keran¡¯s Fund of Art, Culture and Art Publication House£¬May, 2011.    
8. Poster, with the signature of Ms. Zou Peizhu on the 11th April, 1999.                              
9. ¡°The Twelve Most Famous Chinese Painters (II)¡±£¬Page 271£¬Poly Art Museum£¬2011.
10. ¡°The Twelve Most Famous Chinese Painters (III)¡±£¬Page 234£¬Poly Art Museum£¬October, 2011Äê.

    Beijing Poly Auction will hold on its principles of Real, Exquisite and Rare for its 2012 spring sale and present ¡°Jinggang Mountains¡± of LI Keran. This painting is not only a masterpiece of LI Keran¡¯s painting under the theme of Chinese Democratic Revolution, but also the largest work collected by the non-official collector which also reaches the standards of museum¡¯s collection. This painting was created in 1976. Most of LI Keran¡¯s paintings under the theme of ¡°Jinggan Mountains¡± are created in the 1970s and the 1980s. The theme reflects a special historic and cultural background and is the fruit of the painter¡¯s unparalleled diligence. Judged from the process of creation and its large size, this painting is created as a political task; meanwhile, it goes beyond the political significance and reaches a lofty artistic state. Its significance as a landscape painting of LI Keran and as artistic creation in a special period of time turns this painting into a epic of the time.