''Sheepherder'' is a 1980 oil painting created by Chinese artist

Chen Danqing Chen Danqing (born 11 August 1953 in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese-American artist, writer, and art critic. He is well known for his realist paintings of Tibetans. Chen graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts. Life Chen Danqing's ...

in 1980 in

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...

. This painting is considered one of the ''Tibet Series''. He captures a moment where a sheepherder takes to kiss a woman.

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