Known as the Paper Bride series, Zeng’s realist portraits express a melancholic delicacy in his sitters. The artist’s work serves as a commentary on the post-Mao, post-Cultural Revolution era, as well ...

Is repeatedly saying Black people exist and deserve to be a part of the Western art canon enough? Is creating spaces for white audiences to have mediated encounters with Black bodies sufficient?

In 2011, Fechin’s painting The little cowboy (oil on canvas), sold at auction for $10,855,601 - the highest auction sale price ever achieved for one of his works.