Chinese Cultural Revolution Print

Young man in a high collar looks out from a black and red print with a verse below.

This Cultural Revolution print of the young Mao is by The Young Mao, from China, and dates to the 20th century. It is ink on paper. The young Mao was a recurring subject in Chinese art of the late 1960s, often shown in a landscape and used to carry political ideas. Bust portrait in black ink cut with fine lines, with swirls of red-orange hills behind the shoulder. Two lines of characters in black sit beneath, above a red rule on cream paper. It is 5.1 inches wide and 7.4 high.

Solemn and well cropped, with a mountain range behind him for emphasis.