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Cao Yong
Original Painting : Oil on Canvas
Size : 24x60 in | 61x152 cm
Framed : 40x76 in | 102x193 cm
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🔥Huge Mural Size 1999 Framed Oil on Canvas - Inquire $$$$$$$
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Year1999
Hand SignedLower Right in Pen
Condition Excellent
Framed without GlassBlack Frame w/ Hand Painted Filet
Purchased fromGallery 2000
Provenance / HistoryThe piece was acquired from Art One Gallery in Santa Monica, CA
Story / Additional InfoSeller was recently informed that the artist Cao Yong has passed away. As news of his passing is still relatively unknown, the cost of this incredible original has tremendous appeal to collectors who know that the passing of the artist greatly increases the value of said piece. This is a rare opportunity to purchase Cao Yong's most sought after Original painting!
Certificate of AuthenticityCao Yong
Additional InformationRare Huge Oil on Canvas - For the Ultimate Cao Yong Collector
LID160617
Cao Yong
Art Brokerage: Cao Young Chinese Artist: In 1962, at the height of the great famine in China, an extraordinarily gifted child was born into hardship in Xinxian, a small town in Henan Province. Cao Yong's family, already struggling to find enough to eat, was suspected of disloyalty to the new government simply because a great-grandparent had once owned land, real estate, and banks, and because a grandparent had been a warlord. During the Cultural Revolution, this background singled the family out for harsh treatment by the Chinese authorities. Cao Yong's family was ostracized, refused residency permits, and even denied food. While other young children of his age started kindergarten, little Cao Yong began working. At age five, Cao Yong found himself ferrying heavy baskets of gravel at a construction site. One day a rock pit caved in, nearly crushing the tiny boy to death under the rubble. Luckily, Cao Yong survived. It was through drawing that Cao Yong found peace and consolation in those difficult years, and at age eleven his talent was recognized. He began studying with the noted artist Yu Ren from Beijing, who worked briefly in Xinxian. The shadow of ostracism followed him even to art classes, but Cao Yong's remarkable persistence challenged him to paint, and to paint better, each day. In order to buy art supplies, he pawned his winter clothes in summer, his summer clothes in winter, and often skipped meals. He painted on any material he could find: scraps of used wrapping paper, newspaper, discarded wooden boards. When his mother brought him a bundle of dirty cloth which she had begged a shop clerk to give to her, Cao Yong burst into tears of joy: at last he had canvas. Oil paintings wanted. We accept prints for sale, but they must be very well priced. Thank you.