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Five are traditional Chinese paintings by Qi Baishi, Wu Bin, Wang Meng and Xu Yang. In particular, Qi Baishi's Twelve Landscape Screens was sold for $140.8 million in 2017. The only non-Western modern artwork listed is that of the Chinese-French painter Zao Wouki's oil painting Juin-Octobre 1985, which was sold for $65 million in 2018. [16]
The eight-panel painting series The Grand Snowing Mountainous Jiangnan Landscape, completed in 2013, sold for HK$236 million ($30 million) in 2015, a record for living Asian artists. [ 13 ] The Grand Snowing Mountains , also completed in 2013, sold for $39.6 million in 2016, making it the fifth most expensive work by a living artist.
His piece Execution became the most expensive work ever by a Chinese contemporary artist, when sold in 2007 for £2.9 million pounds (US $5.9 million) at London's Sotheby's. [10] Until its sale at Sotheby's Hong Kong in 2007, this painting had been owned by Trevor Simon, a junior investment banker who bought it with about a third of his salary ...
Here, we dive into the most expensive paintings in the world. Can you guess which painting sold for $450 million? Here, we dive into the most expensive paintings in the world.
As of 2014, his most expensive painting is Lion (雄狮, 1915), which was sold by China Guardian in 2010 for 6.72 million yuan (US$993,000). [42] At Sotheby's Hong Kong in 2004, his Four Landscape Screens (山水四屏) sold for 3.982 million Hong Kong dollars (US$511,300).
Claude Monet’s 1890 painting “Meules” — aka “Grainstacks” — sold for $110.7 million in 2019, which was the highest price ever for an Impressionist work, according to Sotheby’s.
Execution is a 1995 painting by Chinese artist Yue Minjun. The piece was inspired by the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, although the artist stated that the piece should not be viewed as depicting what happened at Tiananmen Square. [2] In 2007 it became the most expensive work sold by a Chinese contemporary artist. [3]
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