China Oil Painting Auction Information: Three

Author: Da Yunhe Ed.
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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 painters in the oil painting market in recent years, involving thousands of auctioned works. Arranged in chronological order of the artists' lifetimes, the series is compiled into 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 with investment guidance from the long-term auction records of dozens of auction houses across the country, helping investors understand the basic development of the Chinese oil painting market, the current collection status, and predict future trends. Second, the series is rich in content, compiling short biographies for each oil painter and introducing their artistic styles. The selected artworks include detailed auction information such as images, creation dates, materials, dimensions, estimates, hammer prices, artist signatures, auction houses, and auction dates, which are valuable for collectors. The series strives for comprehensive, detailed, and visual information, making it highly practical for reference.
"The prosperity of the times favors collection, while chaos places gold." Since the 1990s, the art auction industry has rapidly risen in the Chinese market, and art collection has expanded from primarily state cultural and institutions to a broader segment of the general public. Particularly 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 emerged in large numbers. For collectors and buyers, selecting valuable artworks from a vast and mixed pool of oil paintings at auction, ensuring that the prices align with their true value, is like receiving "snow in the cold."
Considering economic and market factors, regions along the coast with higher marketization levels of auctioned works are expected to perform better than other areas. Key distribution should focus on art bookstores, collection bookstores, and some galleries or auction houses. The series also includes "China Calligraphy and Painting Auction Intelligence," which can be recommended together. This book includes the auction information of oil paintings by artists such as Wei Qimei, Liu Xun, He Kongde, Gao Chao, Kong Zixi, Zhang Qinruo, Luo Erlun, Quanshan Shi, and others.