The exhibition is commemorates the life of Fang Zhao Ling (1914–2006). Drawn from private collections, including the Fang family collection, some of the works are on display for the first time to the public.
About Fang Zhaoling (1914-2006)
Fang Zhaoling was born in Wuxi,Jiangsu Province in east China,the elder of two daughters of an affluent family. Fang started to study Chinese painting and Calligraphy at the age of thirteen,later going on to an art college in Wuxi.
In 1937 she was accepted by Manchester University in England and she married her fellow student,Fang Sinkao,a year later,returning with him to China at the outbreak of the Second World War. In the following years,the family was displaced and moved around China, allowing Fang little opportunity to paint.They settled in Hong Kong in 1948 but Fang Sinkao died suddently just two years later.
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