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.

Transcription by the Maoist Documentation Project.