Veteran ink artist Cui Ruzhuo will hold a retrospective show at the National Museum of China from Feb 8 to Feb 28.

The exhibition will present more than 200 of his ink finger-paintings of flowers-and-birds, and landscapes, alongside Qing Dynasty monk-turned-artist Shi Tao's 100-page ink painting album of Buddhist figures from Cui's private collection.

Chinese finger-painting, a rare genre in which painters use their fingers instead of brushes to render images and write Chinese characters on rice paper, has captivated international collectors' attention.

At Christie's Hong Kong's special sale of modern Chinese ink art on Nov 29, Cui's eight-scroll sequence of lotus flowers, painted this year in black and color ink, fetched HK$123.9 million ($15.9 million), or more than twice its HK$60 million top estimate.