Study of the Sculpture "Horse" by Han Meilin

Study of a sculpture "Horse" in the manner of Han Meilin (Chinese, born 1936).  Plaster with bronze tone finish. Some repairs have been done to the mane spikes and tail.

See: https://www.askart.com/artist/Meilin_Han/11143549/Meilin_Han.aspx

(From Askart) Han Meilin is a contemporary Chinese artist known for both his paintings and sculptures of animals. Han notably created the Fuwa (good-luck dolls) mascots for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. 'The flower of my art is rooted in Chinese soil,' he explained, 'but it is nurtured by rain, sunshine and dew from other countries.' Born in 1936 in Jinan, China, he studied at the Central Academy of Arts and Design in Beijing, graduating in 1960. During the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, the artist was arrested for befriending foreigners and spent nearly five years imprisoned. After his release in 1972, Han devoted himself to producing beautiful objects devoted to animals. He currently lives and works in Beijing, China.

See: https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/contemporary_art/han_meilin.php

Members of the Bradshaw Foundation were introduced to Han Meilin in China in 2010, whilst attending the Third Annual Rock Art Festival & Seminar, hosted at the Yinchuan World Rock Art Museum located in Helankou, near Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Han Meilin had been invited as a speaker at the Seminar, where he encouraged artists of China to ‘seek inspiration from the ancient motifs and themes of Chinese rock art, rather than to look elsewhere such as Europe and Russia’. This coincided with an exhibition held in the Yinchuan World Rock Art Museum of recent paintings and sculpture by Han Meilin.