LA museum acquires work of Chinese artist

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the western United States, announced recently the purchase of Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi's painting Untitled (2018) for its permanent collection.

Zeng's painting, about 5 square meters in size, is part of a series of abstract landscapes and will be on display at the LACMA.

The painting, oil on canvas, marks a carefully considered turn to the abstract for the artist, who emerged in the 1990s with his tense, brooding paintings of hospital scenes and urban Chinese men hiding their faces behind masks.