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 ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art completed a $3 million Andrew Mellon Foundation matching grant to establish the new June and Simon K.C. Li Center for Conservation of Chinese paintings.

The 42-foot horizontal scroll by one of the greatest artists in Chinese history, Zhu Da (1626-1705), also commonly known as Bada Shanren, is considered a masterpiece of Chinese painting-last seen ...

It always feels like early autumn in the Chinese painting galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The lighting is warm but low; the décor, wheat-beige and nut-brown.

That scroll’s history is as storied as the journey depicted in the 53-foot-long painting itself. The core of Weng’s trove dates from the Ming and Qing dynasties — basically from 1368 to 1911.

Over 100 masterworks by 59 artists spanning the Ming and Qing dynasties are on view at China Institute Gallery in New York. Zhu Da (1626–1705), “Flowers on a River” (1697), hand scroll; ink ...

Change in Total Sales, # of Lots Offered and Sold Painting Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows ...

The current record is held by Di Zhu Ming, a Chinese calligraphy scroll by Huang Tingjian, who was Su Shi’s student. It sold for 436.8 million Chinese yuan (US$64 million) during an auction in ...