Qi Baishi 齐白石

齐白石（1864一1957），汉族，湖南湘潭人，二十世纪十大画家之一，世界文化名人。是我国20世纪著名画家和书法篆刻家。曾任北京国立艺专教授、中央美术学院名誉教授、北京画院名誉院长、中国美术家协会主席等职。曾被授予“中国人民艺术家”的称号、荣获世界和平理事会1955年度国际和平金奖。代表作品有《花卉草虫十二开册页》，《白石草衣金石刻画》等。2011年5月22日，他的最大尺幅作品《松柏高立图•篆书四言联》被拍出4.255亿元人民币的天价。
Qi Baishi (1864-1957), Han Nationality, a native of Xiangtan, Hunan province, was one of the ten famous painters of the 20th century and won the honor of World Cultural Celebrity. Qi was a prominent Chinese painter and seal engraver of the 20th century. He has served as a professor at National Beijing Art College, an honorary professor at China Central Academy of Fine Arts, honorary president of Beijing Fine Art Academy and the chairman of China Artists Association. He was entitled “People’s Artists of China” and won International Peace Golden Prize of 1955 conferred by the World Peace Council. Album of Flowers, Grass and Insects (Duodecimo) and Inscriptions, Carvings and Paintings of Baishi are among his representative works. His works of the largest size, Eagle Standing on Pine Tree and Four-Character Couplet in Seal script was auctioned off at a whopping price of RMB 425.5 million on May 22, 2011.
代表作品：《花卉草虫十二开册页》、《白石草衣金石刻画》。
Representative works: Album of Flowers, Grass and Insects (Duodecimo), and Inscriptions, Carvings and Paintings of Baishi