China Oil Painting Auction Information

Author: Da Yunhe
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: "China Oil Painting Auction Intelligence" series, which includes 248 active Chinese contemporary and modern oil painting artists in the recent oil painting market auction, involving thousands of auctioned works. Arranged in chronological order of the artists' lifetimes, the series is compiled into a set of 6 volumes. Compared to similar books in the market, this series has its own format and characteristics. First, it targets the frontline oil painting market, directly selecting auction information from the long-term sales records of dozens of auction houses across the country that is meaningful to investors. This helps investors understand the basic development trajectory and current collection status of the Chinese oil painting market and anticipate future trends. Second, the series is rich in content, providing short biographies and introductions to the artistic styles of each oil painter. The selected artworks include images, creation years, materials, dimensions, estimated prices, actual prices, artist signatures, auction houses, and auction dates—essential auction intelligence for collectors. The series strives for comprehensive, detailed, and visual information, making it highly practical and reference-worthy. "Prosperity breeds collecting, chaos hoards gold." Since the 1990s, the art auction industry has rapidly risen in the Chinese market. Art collection has expanded from primarily involving national cultural and institutions to being embraced by a broad range of individuals across society. In economically developed regions, art investment has become the "second investment" for many private entrepreneurs. However, driven by economic interests, counterfeit and imitation works have proliferated. For collectors and buyers, selecting valuable artworks from a vast and mixed pool of oil paintings, ensuring that the auction prices align with their true values, is like receiving "snow in the desert." Due to economic and market factors, regions along the coast with higher marketization levels for auctioned works are expected to perform better in sales. Key distribution should focus on art bookstores, collection bookstores, and some galleries and auction houses. The companion series "China Calligraphy and Painting Auction Intelligence" is also recommended.