Aug 01, 2012 - Sale 2284

Sale 2284 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
YAOYI SHEN (1943- ) [VICTORIOUSLY STEP FORWARD ALONG CHAIRMAN MAO'S REVOLUTIONARY ARTS LINE.] 1975.
30 1/4x41 inches, 76 3/4x104 cm. People's Fine Art Publishing House, Tianjin.
Condition A- / B+: creases in margins and image. Paper.
An unusual image featuring many different characters from the model operas. These were part of Mao's cultural program in the 1960s and 1970s--largely featuring heroic peasants and soldiers fighting to build socialism-- which helped disseminate "Mao thought" to the largely illiterate Chinese population.