Home / News Type Content Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read | Comment
March Art Auction
Adjust font size:

As the Spring Festival passed the works of art auction will open. This year's first spring-season auction of painting and calligraphy will be held on March 13 in Beijing's Asian Hotel. It has been announced by the Zhong'an Taiping International Auction Company, according to Chinanews.com on February 13.

 

There are 484 items to be auctioned -- selected from around 2,000 pieces of work. Some of the items are unique and represent works from a range of different eras. Included are works by artists and celebrities such as Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Qi Gong, Li Kuchan, Fan Zeng, Guo Moruo, Huang Zhou, Li Keran, Han Meilin, and Zhao Puchu.

 

A painting by Li Keran along with his apprentice Li Xingjian and son Li Xiaoke is one of the most splendid items, said the auction company. Li Keran (1907-1989), a landscape painter, was one of China's most admired artists of modern times.

 

The painting depicts the Lijiang River and surrounding scenery in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Its big size is rare among the works of Li Keran, which can be found in auction markets at home and abroad. The superb skills on display in the painting demonstrate the perfect cooperation between Li Keran and his apprentices.

 

Another item that deserves close scrutiny is the original manuscript of a picture-story book -- Exploration in Deep Mountains -- drawn by Wang Mingming in the early 1980s. The work displays the painter's superb skills.

 

In addition, chenille ornaments made at the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), calligraphies and paintings by Luo Gongliu, Ren Yu, Lu Yanshao, and Wang Zhen -- all artwork recognized as being of the highest quality -- will come under the hammer.

 

All the items will be exhibited for two days in the Asian Hotel before the auction, to allow collectors, art lovers and those who are simply curious to catch sight of some quite remarkable pieces of work.

 

(China.org.cn by Zhang Tingting, February 19, 2006)

Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read
Comment
Pet Name
Anonymous
China Archives
Related >>
- Chinese Painting Maestro Li Keran's Landscape to Be Auctioned
- Painting Maestro Wu Guanzhong's Masterpiece to Be Auctioned
- Paintings to Be Auctioned, not Buried with Widow
- Chen Yifei's Painting Sold at Record High Price
- Art Auction Sale Hits $32 Mln in Zhejiang
- Blue-and-white Ceramics to Go Under the Hammer
Most Viewed >>
- World's longest sea-spanning bridge to open
- Yao out for season with stress fracture in left foot
- 141 seriously polluting products blacklisted
- China starts excavation for world's first 3G nuclear plant
- Irresponsible remarks on Hu Jia case opposed 
- 'The China Riddle'
- China, US agree to step up constructive,cooperative relations
- FIT World Congress: translators on track
- Christianity popular in Tang Dynasty
- Factory fire kills 15, injures 3 in Shenzhen

Product Directory
China Search
Country Search
Hot Buys