Christie's Sales Raise $493 Million as Chinese Buyers Pay Record
1 with a sale of modern and contemporary Chinese art including a work by Zao Wou-Ki with a high estimate of 45 million yuan ($7.4 million). Christie's will be holding its first auction in India with a sale of South Asian art on Dec. 19 in Mumbai. To ...
(Nov 27, 2013, Businessweek (blog))
A Chinese Artist Exploring New York
But first his work will be in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition “Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China,” its first show of Chinese contemporary art, opening on Dec. 11. Though video art is a comparatively new medium — and certainly ...
(Nov 27, 2013, New York Times)
Chinese Buyers Push Christie's Auction to $493 Million
1 with a sale of modern and contemporary Chinese art including a work by Zao Wou-Ki with a high estimate of 45 million yuan ($7.4 million). Christie's will be holding its first auction in India with a sale of South Asian art on Dec. 19 in Mumbai. To ...
(Nov 28, 2013, Bloomberg)
Sotheby's sets its stall for first sale in China
Nonetheless, Sotheby's forthcoming auction centres on Modern and contemporary Chinese art (with a sale estimate around $21m), while older, Western works are reserved for two of its three coinciding selling exhibitions: “Modern Masters: from Rembrandt ...
(Nov 28, 2013, Art Newspaper)
The Red Canvas: A Look at the Chinese Art Scene
In the past decade, the Chinese art scene has progressed from 'budding' to'thriving'. In 2008, Christie's auctioned Zeng Fanzhi's Mask Series No. 6 for $9.7 million, breaking records worldwide for Asian contemporary art sales. On the who's who in China ...
(Nov 28, 2013, CKGSB Knowledge)
China raises the red hammer
These items make up the bulk of the art trade in China; contemporary art accounts for less than 10 per cent of all sales by value. Some believe the ambiguity is deliberate because it allows the government to exercise even more control when determining ...
(Nov 28, 2013, The Australian Financial Review)
Feeding Asia's art
"The 'make-it-work' magic was my enthusiasm for biennales and determination to win back the right from Western curators to judge and choose Chinese contemporary art," recalls the curator who was the chief organizer of the acclaimed Shanghai Biennial ...
(Nov 29, 2013, ecns)
Rembrandt, Chinese painters star in Sotheby's first major China sale
However, demand for everything from antiques to artwork is expected to continue, said Philip Tinari, director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. "I think a lot of people are eager to see what it'll mean to have a regular Sotheby's ...
(Nov 29, 2013, WTAQ)
Rembrandt, Chinese painters star in Sotheby's first major China sale
However, demand for everything from antiques to artwork is expected to continue, said Philip Tinari, director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. "I think a lot of people are eager to see what it'll mean to have a regular Sotheby's ...
(Nov 29, 2013, Reuters India)
Chinese art expected to fetch $20m at auction on Sunday
One of the world's oldest auction houses, Sotheby's, has just kicked off its largest ever event in China. From Thursday to Sunday, the ambitious Beijing Art Week will bring a 20 million US dollar auction of Modern and Contemporary Chinese art to the ...
(Nov 30, 2013, CCTV)
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