Chinese Cultural Revolution Print

Dark jacket, sweeping hair, and red scribbled mountains on a cream ground.

This Cultural Revolution print of Chairman Mao is by Chairman Mao, from China, and dates to the 20th century. It is ink on paper. Propaganda prints of this period typically used bold colour, clear outlines and an idealized style so that their messages could be read quickly by a wide public. A woodcut-style portrait of a man looking sideways, wearing a dark tunic with red collar tabs. Red hatched hills rise behind him, and four short lines of Chinese text sit beneath a red border. It is 5.2 inches wide and 7.4 high.

A moody gaze that rather steals its own mountain.