You may be burning with fear or anxiously awaiting the outcome of the second Battle of Changsha on the 10th day of the eighth month of the Xinyi year (1941). Beihong stayed in Penang.
This version of Galloping Horse was painted during the second Battle of Changsha in the autumn of 1941. At that time, the war between China and Japan had reached a stalemate and Japan wanted to thoroughly defeat China before extending the war to the rest of the Pacific.
Xu Beihong (19 July 1895 - 26 September 1953) was a Chinese painter from Yixing, Jiangsu province. He is best known for his ink paintings of horses and birds. In 1915, he moved to Shanghai. Here he lived off selling his works. In 1917, he travelled to Tokyo in Japan to study painting here. Back in China, he was given a chair at Peking University. From 1919, Xu studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.
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