LI GUIJUN (CHINESE B. 1964) Standing Nude 1988 oil on canvas 101.5 x 62 cm (40 x 24 3/8 in.) signed and dated lower right; signed and titled on verso PROVENANCE The Estate of Milton Gelfand, Pound Ridge, New York EXPERTISE We are grateful to the artist, Li Guijun, for confirming the authenticity of this work. LOT NOTES Beijing artist Li Guijun is known for his exploration of the dynamics of women in a photo realistic fashion. He painted adolescent girls exclusively for almost twenty years, and the current painting is amongst the artist's rare early works that he created at the time of graduation from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1988. The work comes from the estate of Milton Gelfand, a successful businessman, who traveled extensively around communist China during the Sino-U.S. rapprochement in the 1970-90s and built an impressive art collection mainly comprised of contemporary Chinese paintings and sculpture.