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Letter to Qi Baishi
October 5, 1952
[Source: Selections from Mao Zedong's Letters, p.448]
Mr.Baishi:[1]
I thank you heartily for the gift of your scroll painting Pu tian tong qing (Joyous Celebration for All in Heaven), which I have received. I would like to express my gratitude to all your co-creators [of the masterpiece]: Messrs. Xu Shixue, Yu Feian, Wang Shensheng, Hu Peiheng, Pu Yizai, Pu Xuezai and Guan Songfang.
Mao Zedong,br> October 5, 1952
NOTES
1. Qi Baishi (1864-1957) was perhaps modern China's most renowned and respected artist. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was an Honorary director of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and a chairman of the Association of Chinese Painters. On his death he willed to the Central People's Government all of his works in his possession.