9. Guan Jian Achieve A New Record, New year print of a factory scene, with workers dressed in colourful overalls, and gathered around a machine, with a banner in the background reading “Combine physical labour and intelligence to create and invent”, the posters on the wall read “Learn from the model workers”, “Promote production” and “Enhance living conditions” , 190 x 280mm., Peking, 1950.
est. £100 – £150
One of a small number of colour-printed images produced experimentally by a printing press process. This print was issued at the same time as the early political woodblock prints. Although originally included in a portfolio of woodblock prints this type of print is in fact much rarer.