(Photo : Three rocks with Chang Dai-chien's autographs on them)

August 1^st, Taipei National Palace Museum in Taiwan held a donation ceremony for three rocks with Chang Dai-chien's autographs on them. These rocks were located at the former residence of Chang Dai-chien in Sao Paolo, Brazil, where he named as the "Garden of Eight Virtues". On top of the three rocks, there are Chang Dai-chien's autographs of "Pan'a", "Wutinghu" and "Chaoyinbu".

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Chang Dai-chien was one of most famous and prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Originally known as a Chinese traditional painter, by the 1960s he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter. Chang Dai-chien is regarded as one of the most gifted master forgers of the twentieth century.

Due to China's Civil War in 1949, Chang Dai-chien left China and sojourned in Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Argentina before he settled down in a 30-acre compound outside Sao Paolo, Brazil that he named the "Garden of Eight Virtues" in 1954.

Chang Dai-chien continued to exhibit his art in the US and Europe, traveling to Paris in 1956 for a breakthrough show of his paintings at the Musee d'Art Moderne, which is a major municipal museum dedicated to Modern and Contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Chang Dai-chien's meeting with Pablo Picasso during this trip was given considerable attention in the press as a meeting of the masters of Western and Eastern art.

Later, because a dam construction project in Brazil was going to flood his "Garden of Eight Virtues", Chang Dai-chien left Brazil. But the three huge rocks weren't taken away duo to difficulty of handling. In the 1980s, a Chinese couple in Brazil moved the rocks to their factory in Sao Paolo. But the couple wishes to find an ideal destination for the rocks. So the wife Mr. Yang expressed their willing to donate the three rocks to Taipei National Palace Museum. Taipei National Palace Museum accepted the donations with alacrity and properly relocated these precious rocks.