Chu Teh Chun or Zhu Dequn, American, Chinese, 1920 to 2014, oil painting on canvas depicting an abstract composition, 1961. Signed in latin and with calligraphy, lower right. Framed. Additionally signed, and dated, on the backside. Chu Teh Chun or Zhu Dequn was a Chinese French abstract painter acclaimed for his pioneering style integrating traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western abstract art. Chu Teh Chun enrolled in the National School of Fine Arts now China Academy of Art, where he studied under Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu. He was the first ethnic Chinese member of the Académie des Beaux Arts of France, and together with Wu Guanzhong and Zao Wou Ki were dubbed the Three Musketeers of modernist Chinese artists trained in China and France. One of a kind artwork.