China Oil Painting Auction Information: Five

Author: Da Yunhe
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: "China Oil Painting Auction Intelligence" series, which collects 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 first-tier oil painting market, directly selecting auction information with investment guidance from the long-term auction data of dozens of auction houses across the country, helping investors understand the basic development context and current collection status of the Chinese oil painting market and predict collection 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 date, material, size, estimated price, hammer price, artist's signature, auction house, and auction date, which are valuable for collectors. This series strives for comprehensive, detailed, and visual information, making it highly practical for reference.
"The prosperity of the times promotes 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 range of social strata. 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 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 value, is like receiving "snow in the cold."
Considering economic and market factors, regions along the coast with higher marketization levels of auctioned items are expected to perform better than others. Key distribution should focus on art bookstores, collection bookstores, and some galleries and auction houses. The series also includes "China Calligraphy and Painting Auction Intelligence," which can be recommended together. This book features oil paintings and auction intelligence by artists such as Zhou Chunya, Mao Xuhui, Xie Dongming, Wang Keju, Yan Ping, Wang Xiangming, Jiang Jianzhong, and Zhang Guolong.