Self-portrait

Pan Yuliang (1895 to 1977)
Born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China. Pan graduated from the Shanghai Art Institute in 1921and was then granted an official scholarship to study at the Lyon National Art School. She later studied at the L'Ecole National Superieure des Beaux Arts and then traveled to Italy to study oil painting and sculpture at the Rome National Fine Arts Institute in 1926. She returned to China in 1929 to teach at the Shanghai Art Institute and Nanjing's Central University, but returned to Paris in 1938 where she lived until her death. Her paintings now routinely auction for between NT$4 million and NT$8 million and continue to increase in value.May 02, 2004