Christie’s Hong Kong Achieves Highest Ever Sale Total for Chinese Paintings

HONG KONG.- Christie’s Hong Kong completed its two sales of Classical and Modern Chinese Paintings on Tuesday, November 30th, 2010, tallying the highest total ever for the category with HK$669 million/ US$ 86 million. The morning session of Fine Chinese Classical Paintings kicked off with high sold ratios of 91% by lot and 87% by value and a total of HK$100 million/US$13 million. The momentum continued unabated with the afternoon session of the Modern Chinese Paintings sale which totalled HK$ [...]

Fine Chinese Paintings Autumn Sale 2010 Announced at Sotheby’s

HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold the Fine Chinese Paintings Autumn Sale 2010 on 5 October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Building on the success of the spring auction earlier this year, Sotheby’s will continue to present an array of distinguished thematic collections this season, including “Twenty-two Paintings & Calligraphy from the Collection of Chai Sian Kwan”, “Paintings from a European Private Collection”, “Calligraphy Couplets of Late Qing Scholars” and several others. The total of 270 [...]