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Jiang Biwei (蔣碧薇) leisurely relaxes on a golden-yellow bed reading a book. In the early 1920s Chinese artist Xu Beihong (徐悲鴻) produced numerous paintings and sketches in France of his muse Jiang. The couple were madly in love at the time and too poor to hire models. Jiang was born as Jiang Tangzhen (蔣棠珍) in April 1899 in Yixing, Jiangsu province. In 1911, her parents betrothed her to Zha Zihan, from an influential family of Haining, Zhejiang. In 1916, her family moved to Shanghai for her father to be a professor at Fudan University. One of his students was the ambitious young artist Xu Beihong who became very close with his daughter. Xu was set to go to Japan to study art and Jiang was upset to be forced to marry Zha, so the couple left a note and eloped to Japan giving her the alias "Jiang Biwei" ... which later became better known than her real name. The embarrassment for her family was so great that they declared she had died from an illness. Their anger subsided after Jiang wrote an apology. After 6 months, Jiang and Xu moved back to Shanghai. In 1918, Xu was offered a scholarship to study in France and the young couple moved to Paris. In the mid-1920s, they returned to China and Jiang gave birth to a son and a daughter. But, by 1930, Xu had fallen in love with one of his students: Sun Duoci (孙多慈) ... or so the story goes, but it might of been exaggerated rumors spread by Kuomintang (KMT) leader Chang Tao-fan (张道藩), aka Zhang Daofan, who had known Jiang since Paris and was sending her love letters ... even though Chang had a French wife and child. Jiang and Xu finally and very publicly divorced in the 1940s. When the Kuomintang lost the Chinese Civil War and retreated to Taiwan, Jiang went with Chang and they lived together for 10 years including many when he was president of Taiwan ... before his wife returned in 1958. Jiang published her memoir "Reminiscences of Jiang Biwei" in 1964: composed of two volumes, "Beihong and I" and "Daofan and I."

Jiang Biwei (蔣碧薇) leisurely relaxes on a golden-yellow bed reading a book. In the early 1920s Chinese artist Xu Beihong (徐悲鴻) produced numerous paintings and sketches in France of his muse Jiang. The couple were madly in love at the time and too poor to hire models. Jiang was born as Jiang Tangzhen (蔣棠珍) in April 1899 in Yixing, Jiangsu province. In 1911, her parents betrothed her to Zha Zihan, from an influential family of Haining, Zhejiang. In 1916, her family moved to Shanghai for her father to be a professor at Fudan University. One of his students was the ambitious young artist Xu Beihong who became very close with his daughter. Xu was set to go to Japan to study art and Jiang was upset to be forced to marry Zha, so the couple left a note and eloped to Japan giving her the alias "Jiang Biwei" ... which later became better known than her real name. The embarrassment for her family was so great that they declared she had died from an illness. Their anger subsided after Jiang wrote an apology. After 6 months, Jiang and Xu moved back to Shanghai. In 1918, Xu was offered a scholarship to study in France and the young couple moved to Paris. In the mid-1920s, they returned to China and Jiang gave birth to a son and a daughter. But, by 1930, Xu had fallen in love with one of his students: Sun Duoci (孙多慈) ... or so the story goes, but it might of been exaggerated rumors spread by Kuomintang (KMT) leader Chang Tao-fan (张道藩), aka Zhang Daofan, who had known Jiang since Paris and was sending her love letters ... even though Chang had a French wife and child. Jiang and Xu finally and very publicly divorced in the 1940s. When the Kuomintang lost the Chinese Civil War and retreated to Taiwan, Jiang went with Chang and they lived together for 10 years including many when he was president of Taiwan ... before his wife returned in 1958. Jiang published her memoir "Reminiscences of Jiang Biwei" in 1964: composed of two volumes, "Beihong and I" and "Daofan and I."

读书的蒋碧薇 (Jiang Biwei Reading) by 徐悲鴻 / Xu Beihong (Chinese) - Oil on canvas / 1920s - CAFA Art Museum (Beijing, China) #WomenInArt #art #ChineseArtist #reading #artText #ChineseArt #CAFA #PortraitofaWoman #张道藩 #BlueskyArt #蔣碧薇 #JiangBiwei #徐悲鴻 #XuBeihong #CAFAartMuseum #中央美术学院 #artwork #OilPainting

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