"Quiet Reflection" (2012) is one of the most visually and compositionally arresting of the artist Contemporary Chinese artist Zhang Xiangming. This work is one of his most detailed and sublime of the paintings on young, beautiful Chinese women that belong to his "China Girl Series" where the conflation of old world China as defined here by this woman's hairstyle, and hair ornament, is met with the independence and quiet confidence of modern-day China. Zhang's close-up portrait depicts this young woman nude, deep in thought, with her porcelain skin luminous against the ombre background, with the three-quarter perspective and her downward glance allowing the viewer to openly gaze upon her beauty and the admire the incredible skill of Zhang as a painter. This work measures 59 x 47.25 inches, is unframed and in perfect condition. This work comes with a formal certificate of authenticity signed by the artist and issued by his Studio and his gallery.

Zhang Xiangming was born in Guangrao, Shandong, China in 1975. He graduated from the Shandong Normal University Art Department in 2003 and received his Master's Degree in oil painting at the Artistic Research Institute of China in 2007. The artist is exhibited world-wide with galleries in China, Europe, The U.K and the U.S. The artist's realist oil paintings are internationally famed and sought-after, world-wide, selling for upwards of $43,000.00 USD premium at Auctions, Fall 2011 in NY, USA. His work is held in top collections in the US (Texas, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles), as well as throughout Europe, Asia and South-East Asia. The artist lives and works in Beijing, China.