Emanating minimalist purity and characteristic precision, this example of Richard Lin’s work hints at the artist’s architectural training, with deceptively simple curvilinear forms charging across the surface of the work expelling energy and rhythm from the sparse pencil lines. Created in 1960 towards the beginning of his career, Lin had committed to art full-time only two years previously and had held his first solo exhibition at Gimpel Fils in 1959, a few years later becoming the first Chinese artist to take part in the prestigious exhibition Documenta 3, in Kassel, Germany. Lin’s work is known for fusing elements of ancient Eastern philosophy such as Taoism with the principles of the western modernist greats like Le Corbusier whom he studied when training to be an architect at Regent Street Polytechnic in London, influence of both are clearly evident in this example.