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Died. Ch'ih Pai-shih, 97, China's best-known contemporary painter, who took up art as a hobby while working as a carpenter, gained worldwide fame in the '20s, sold his work on commission and by the square foot (price range: 50?-$2), and often signed his paintings with odd names: The Old Vagabond, The Disciple of Lu Pan (god of carpenters), The Old Man of the Apricot Orchard; in Peking. Living with 30 relatives (he supported about 50) in a rambling house, Ch'ih painted chicks, crickets, shrimp and crabs, occasionally a landscape ("Only...
...read in TIME, July 26, about the aged Chinese painter, Ch'ih Pai-shih . . . According to your article he sells his pictures for a dollar. Knowing a bargain when I hear about one in the art market, I sent him $1 cash . . . and today the picture really arrived, a traditional Chinese brush painting of a pair of shrimps. His calligraphy is gross but his figures are sensitive and beautiful...
...ih writes as follows: "I am nearly 90 years of age and I want more time to rest, so I charge U.S. $11 per sq. foot for my paintings abroad. I hope all is well with you." Also, he wants ... "a copy of the American magazine in which someone has written about...
...help support this household, he must work with lightning speed, painting with swift, sure brush strokes on pieces of thin bamboo paper. The slightest error in wetting or pressing upon the brush would mean an ugly smear and having to start all over again. But Ch'ih Pai-shih never has to start over again, and he can turn out four or five of his delicate paintings a day. These he sells only on order, and only by the square foot (his price...
Keys & a Stone. Ch'ih Pai-shih has many fears. One is that people might stop ordering his paintings, and that he will be forced into the streets to peddle them himself. Another is that someone will rob him, and that he must keep all his paints and possessions always locked up, carrying the keys around with him on a rope about his waist. With such worries, and 50 relatives, and a whole year - and thousands of square feet - of orders to fill, there was little peace last week for Ch'ih Pai-shih. Once in a while...