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When Christie’s Auction House first entered the secondary art market of mainland China in 2005, it licensed its brand to a local auction house and received a total of RMB 97,000,000 (roughly ...
Landscape painting in China is not just pretty scenery. It carries a moral message." These two works are part of an exhibition called Journey through Mountains and Rivers: Chinese Landscapes ...
The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...
Nearby, a 52-inch-high hanging scroll by Weng Tonghe (1830-1904) is dominated by a single, dramatically executed Chinese character. Made 200 years after Wang’s journey down the Yangtze, it is ...
One of KS Sze's priceless vintage offerings is a circa 1937 double-clip brooch called Two Corners of Handkerchief. Designed ...
In a late 12th-century Chinese scroll painting entitled "Wind and Snow in the Fir Pines," famed landscape artist Li Shan depicts a lone scholar warming himself by a crackling fire.Outside, craggy ...
At a time of acute environmental consciousness, the terrestrial vision projected by Chinese landscape painting — of the world, not as a collection of disparate, disposable material parts, but as ...
A landscape painting by Song Dynasty artist Wang Shen inspired poetry by his contemporary, Su Shi. Yuan dynasty artist Zhao Mengfu then transcribed Su Shi’s poem into his own calligraphic style.
“Alternative Dreams: 17 th Century Chinese Paintings From the Tsao Family Collection” features more than 120 works – including an imposing set of 10 calligraphic hanging scrolls by Dong and ...
Summoning Memories features artists of Chinese descent who negotiate the long legacy of Chinese calligraphy and ink painting through alternative approaches. Xu Bing, "Square Word Calligraphy - The ...
The painstakingly-crafted, 17th-century landscape, "10,000 Miles Along The Yangzi River," has been in collector Wan-go H.C. Weng’s family for six generations.