| Put Down Your Whip | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | Xu Beihong |
| Year | 1939 |
| Type | Oil painting |
| Dimensions | 144 cm × 90 cm (57 in × 35 in) |
Put Down Your Whip (Chinese: 放下你的鞭子; pinyin: Fàngxià nǐde biānzi) is a 1939 oil painting by Chinese realist painter Xu Beihong. Completed during Xu's stay in Singapore, the painting was exhibited numerous times before its disappearance from public view in 1954. It re-emerged in 2007 and was sold for HK$72 million (US$9.2 million) in an auction on 7 April 2007 in Hong Kong, a then record for the highest price paid for a Chinese painting at auction.[1]