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Chinese Fan Painting Attr. to Ma Yuan - Early Chinese fan painting, trimmed into the artist's seal, .. by or after Ma Yuan, late Song to Yuan Dynasties, a very fine painting, regardless. Excellent condition, silk mounted down on paper. 10” x 9.5”... Britannia;Such paintings are redolent of a poetic melancholy that hints at the decay of Song culture, and the pictorial expression of this feeling is often rather conventional. The one-sided composition, the juta most important ting pine tree silhouetted against empty space, the meditating scholar, and the brilliant brush technique of Ma all lent themselves easily to imitation. His style was popular with late Song painters, men and women, professionals and amateurs, and it is often difficult to separate the genuine fans and album leaves by Ma from those of his followers.