Evening Serenade

Li  Keran,  1907 - 1989
Hanging  scroll,  ink  and  slight  colour  on  paper,
69cm  by  45cm,  probably  painted  in  the  mid-60s.
Two  seals  separately  bearing  the  family  and  first  names  of
the  artist.

Well-known  for  his  depiction  of  the  buffalo,   the  artist  has,
in    this   one    painting    not    only    one    recumbent    buffalo
dominating  the  near  foreground  but  also  a cowboy  reclining
on  the  crook  of  a  tree,  playing a  flute,  as  well  as  landscape
:  a  forest  of  trees  in  the  background.