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CHEN Yi Fei
Chen Yifei (1946-2005) hailed from Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province. In 1965, he graduated from the Shanghai Art Training School. In the years following, he specialized in oil painting. Chen studied in the United States in 1981.
Chen Yifei was the most celebrated modern painter working in China. He died on 10th April 2005 in Shanghai , and his paintings (often over-lifesize) and drawings are of figures and landscapes observed in China and Tibet. The fine detail and pathos of his work has earned the description 'romantic realism'
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