Largely self-taught painter, woodcut artist and writer whose 1980 Year of the Monkey stamp, the 猴票, became one of the most valuable PRC stamps. The novelist 沈从文 was his uncle.
Huáng Yǒngyù shèjì de hóupiào xiànzài fēicháng zhíqián.
The monkey stamp Huang Yongyu designed is now extremely valuable.
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He named and designed the Hunan liquor 酒鬼酒, whose name means 'drunkard', and its clay bottle shaped like a tied sack. At 98 he drew the 2023 Year of the Rabbit stamp, a blue rabbit with red eyes that many netizens found creepy.
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He kept homes in 凤凰古城, the Hunan old town where he grew up, and in Beijing, where he built a studio compound and named it 万荷堂, 'Hall of Ten Thousand Lotuses'.
