Portrait of an artist

Since the 1990s, his painting style changed and scenes from Tibet became his favorite subject. These paintings are in the third section of the exhibition at Shanghai Art Museum.

In the upstairs exhibition hall, his magazines and clothes from the "Leyefe" brand that he created are exhibited.

"Yifei was one of the first to become aware of the market potential of Asian artists," says Chen Yiming. "In the early 1990s he was involved in the first auction of contemporary Chinese art held by Christie's. Now that Chinese have started to buy art, many of his paintings, sold to Western countries many years ago, have been bought by Chinese collectors, and returned to China."