Winter Beauty

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Your B & B Host: I'm George Evans, and I've spent the last 20 years importing and exporting antiques and fine design pieces from Europe. I'm a New York City dealer and I have two showrooms in Lambertville, New Jersey.

This month we're bringing you a vivid example of contemporary Chinese art, a hot category, with talented Yan Zhou Xu's Portrait of a Chinese Woman. This 1990 oil on canvas creation is a hyper-realistic, yet romantic picture brought to us by our friends at Hadassa Antiques, located at 1050 Second Avenue #75 in New York City.

The value of contemporary Chinese art has been proven in global auction houses, and we think our Yan Zhou Xu portrait would look amazing your home, like this Kips Bay Show House library decorated by Geoffrey Bradfield, made eye-poppingly cool with fashion-forward contemporary Asian art and a strong color scheme.

We think this contemporary artwork would be beautiful in your home. For a more in-depth discussion about the contemporary Chinese art scene, see my By George! interview with Design2Share. And visit Bond & Bowery for the item detail page on the painting.

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