Art Market Monitor

Bloomberg reports another record set for Indonesian artist I Nyoman Masriadi in Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Painting sale in Hong Kong. The canvas from 2000 sold for more than HK$7.8 million ($998,000) which was five times the high estimate for the work (though estimates do not include the buyer’s premium.)

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