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Li Bo'an (1944.7-1998.5), born in Luoyang, Henan Province, is a Chinese portraiture artist who specialized in ink and wash painting from the second half of the twentieth century. His masterpiece, “out of Bayanhara” (1.88 m X 1.24 m), is a long scroll of ink and wash portraiture that took ten years to finish. His representation borrowed from various styles of western modernism, Chinese impressionist painting, and traditional Chinese line drawing language; his artwork is deemed to be the most crucial and epic ink and wash portraiture of the twentieth century. In May 1998, at the age of 54, he passed away in front of his unfinished work.
