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CHINESE SCHOOL OF HAN YUCHEN TIBETAN FIGURES OIL PAINTING - A large-scale oil on canvas painting in the style of Han Yuchen (Chinese, b. 1954), reflecting the late twentieth-century Chinese Academic Realist tradition depicting Tibetan subjects. The composition portrays a group of nomads gathered on a high-altitude grassland plateau beside a dark yak-hair tent. In the left foreground, a woman wearing a pink top and dark chuba stands behind two young children, one in a striped shirt holding red fabric and another in a cream top and tan trousers, alongside a second woman viewed from behind in an orange jacket, pink headscarf, and striped apron. To the right, seated figures appear on the grass beside a boy in a patched jacket and green-striped trousers and a woman in red with a light blue headwrap, set against distant mountains under a blue sky with white clouds. Executed with naturalistic modeling and textured brushwork across the foreground meadow and garments, the work is housed in a gilt molded frame. No signature, monogram, or date is visible on the recto, and the reverse features raw stapled canvas with an indistinct graphite notation and no gallery labels. himalayan ethnography, pastoral encampment, silk road art, chen danqing, ai xuan, highland village life, inner asian portraiture, steppe dwellers, oversize wall decor, figurative realism Dimensions Frame: 58 1/2 x 84 1/2 in. Image: 51 x 76 1/2 in. Condition The painted surface is stable with rich pigment retention and light wear consistent with late 20th-century execution. No tears or inpainting are visible on the recto. The verso exhibits a structural break to the central wooden stretcher crossbar. Housed in a gilt frame with minor edge abrasions.