CHANG TA-CH'IEN

born May 10, 1899, Nei-chiang, Szechwan province, China died April 2, 1983, Taipei, Taiwan Chinese painter, collector, and connoisseur. Chang Ta-ch'ien left China in 1949 and resided in various countries in the West, including the United States and Brazil. He settled in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1977. His paintings, all in the traditional style, reveal the marks of virtually every age of Chinese painting, but he was particularly adept at the styles of 17th- and 18th-century Individualists. Some of his later work, strong in colour and free in execution, shows the influence of Western Abstract Expressionism.