b'129Ian Fairweather/Copyright Agency, 20229IAN FAIRWEATHER (18911974),Chinese Village Landscape,watercolour and gouache on paper,signed lower right,38 x 41cmClosely associated with Hangchow Canal, 194547Chinese life and culture. He lived and worked in China for watercolour, gouache and crayon on paper, signed lowerextended periods, learnt Chinese and published a book-length left, 37 x 41 cm, sold by Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne,translation of the popular Chinese novel The Drunken Buddha 28/11/2012, Lot No. 14, for $126,000 incl.BP. (1965). From an early age Fairweather sought alternatives to Ian Fairweather is one of the most significant twentieth- art based on verisimilitude and single-point perspective. This century artists to have worked in Australia. After a life ofled to a lifelong engagement with the principles of Chinese wandering, including time spent in China, Bali and theart and thought that profoundly shaped his own creative Philippines, Fairweather settled on Bribie Island, off the coastprocess. [From a review of the book Fairweather and China of Queensland, where he built his own house. In 1962 aby Claire Roberts].leading art critic named him our greatest painter. Fairweather$80,000120,000is exceptional among modern artists for his experience of'