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What Effect Will Sotheby’s $120 Million “Scream” Sale Have On Chinese Art?
If it wasn't a Chinese buyer who won the battle for "The Scream" at Sotheby's this week, what does its record-breaking sale have to do with China? Read MoreInternational March Of Chinese Art Continues To Gain Pace
With China becoming the world's largest art and antiques market in 2011, and much of the auction world's focused on Hong Kong, one development in the Chinese art world that's… Read MoreChina’s Cashed-Up Collectors “The Biggest Thing In The Art World In 20 Years”
Emerging seemingly out of nowhere in the last decade, Chinese art collectors have scoured the globe for every piece of top-quality Chinese contemporary art, rare antique and historical ink painting… Read MoreCoin Fever In Kowloon: Hong Kong Auction Series Pulls In $10.5 Million
One auction segment that tends to fly under the radar despite its growing popularity among China's new generation of collectors is historical and rare currency. Read MoreSkittish Hong Kong Investors Flock To Art
Along with its status as the world's largest wine auction market, recent years have seen Hong Kong become a key art market as new mainland Chinese collectors and skittish local… Read MoreBlue-Chip Chinese Art, French Wine Drive Sales Success At Sotheby’s Hong Kong Spring Auctions
With the highly anticipated Sotheby's spring auctions winding down in Hong Kong, it looks like our expectations for 2012 remain on target. Read MoreWith New Hong Kong Gallery, Sotheby’s Digs In For The Long Haul
As it conducts its spring auction series in Hong Kong, Sotheby's has announced plans to open the doors of a new 15,000 square foot permanent exhibition space in the city… Read MoreLooking To Cultivate Chinese Collector Base, Christie’s Appoints New China Managing Director
Restricted to operating in Hong Kong, major international auction houses like Sotheby’s and Christie’s have spent the last several years looking at new ways of increasing their non-auction presence in… Read MoreChinese Collectors Looking At Western Art, But Still Buying Chinese
With China recently surpassing the US as the world's largest art and antiques market in terms of auction and dealer sales, the chorus of art market observers asking when China’s… Read MoreChinese Demand Pushes $35 Million Sotheby’s Classical Chinese Paintings Auction Far Beyond Estimates
If there's one thing that distinguishes China's emerging class of new art collector, it's a willingness (and even a point of pride) to bid well above high estimates for auction… Read More