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Christie's HK Asian 20C & Cont = HK$492.66m

May 28, 2011 by Marion Maneker

Tonight’s sale totaling HK$492,660,000 ($63,319,846) was tough on Yue Minjun and Takashi Murakami who had the only works to pass. However, the top lots by Zeng Fanzhi and Zhang Xiaogang were well estimated and had trouble generating bidding to break those artists out to new levels. That doesn’t mean the sale lacked excitement as buyers rotated into new names like Liu Wei and Wu Guanzhong or one of the few blue chip Chinese modernists like Zao Wou-ki.

 

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