signed HUANG TU HUA PAI LIU WEN XI and with one seal of the artist ink on paper Liu Wenxi was a Chinese painter，he served as President of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts and Vice Chairman of the China Artists Association. His works combine Western perspective projection with a paler and plainer background.Liu's portrait of Mao Zedong is universally known in China as it has been featured on the fifth series of the renminbi, China's national currency, since 1999.