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Sotheby’s HK Evening Sale Mod & Cont Asian Art = $78.91m

October 6, 2014 by Marion Maneker

Liu Xiaodong, Disobeying the Rules (66.2m HKD) 8.54m USD
Zoa Wou-ki, Debut d’Octobre (25-35m) 59.48m HKD (7.6m USD)
Fang Lijun, Series 2 No. 4 (25-35m) 59.48m (7.6m USD)
Zao Wou-ki, 14.12.62 (12-18m) 34.8m HKD
Zao Wou-ki, 25.09.60 (12-18m) 25.88m HKD
Chu Teh-chun (5-7m) 13.2m hkd
Zeng Fanzhi, Landscape (7-8m) 12m HKD
Chu Teh-chun, Sereines Clartes (6-8m) 11.9m HKD
Jai Aili, Wasteland Series No. 1 (3.2-4m) 11.8m HKD
Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin (DFLO) (4.8-6m) 9,64m HKD
Chang Suhong, Artist’s Family After the Bombing of Chungking (2.5-3.5m) 9.4m HKD
Wang Xingwei, Blind (1.5-2.5m) 9.4m HKD
Yu Youhan, Circle 87-2 (1.5-2m) 8.44m HKD
Yoshitomo Nara, Rock You! (4-5m) 8.44m HKD
Ronald Ventura, The In Between Nest (800-1.5m) 7.24m

Colin Gleadell highlights the few—but signficant—works that didn’t find buyers:

The price of Ai Weiwei’s ceramic sunflower seeds, so effectively exhibited in Tate’s Turbine Hall in 2010, crashed last weekend as Sotheby’s began its seasonal Asian art auctions in Hong Kong. In 2011, a 100-kg mound of the seeds sold in London for £350,000. But another mound of the same size and from the same edition, estimated to fetch at least £165,000, found no buyer on Sunday. Other works by once popular artists Yue Minjun and Xiao Xiaogang, from the collection of Guy and Miriam Ullens, also failed to sell.

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