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 ...

Outside of China and Taiwan, U.S. museums hold the world's best collection of Chinese paintings. It's worth billions of dollars, but it's also fragile: Over time, these paintings fall apart. In ...

A 20-metre scroll painting depicting an inspection tour of China by Emperor Kangxi was cut into seven pieces in France last century. Two auction-goers bought the pieces, and the work will be shown ...

Last year, a 700-year-old Chinese painted scroll titled “Five Drunken Princes Returning on Horseback” from the Yuan Dynasty fetched $41.8 million at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong. KATIE TAM .

Bonhams unrolled yet another surprise million-dollar-plus Chinese artwork at its sale of Asian art in Sydney, with a scroll painting that had a pre-sale estimate of a mere $3000 to $5000, selling ...

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 ...

The newly added art pieces include a scroll by Gu Qiao and a fan by an anonymous 12th-century Chinese artist, “both of which point to the significance of gardens in literati culture during the ...

“Silk Painting of a Lady, Phoenix, and Dragon” is recognized as the first work in Chinese art history to focus on a female subject. Unearthed in 1949 from a Chu state tomb, located in the modern-day ...

HONG KONG--A Chinese painting from 1924 is expected to fetch at least $45 million in an auction in Hong Kong, as collectors’ appetite for art continues to rise even amid economic uncertainty ...