Compared with ancient calligraphy and painting with scarce resources and difficult identification, modern calligraphy and painting has always been the backbone of China's calligraphy and painting. However, due to the decrease of excellent works, the autumn auction of 20 13 is tepid. Yachang's "Modern Master Index" also decreased by 7% compared with last quarter, and the index of 9 artists among the 24 sample artists was in a downward channel: the index of Chen Shaomei's works decreased the most, with 42%; Wu Hufan's works index dropped by 38%, and Zhang Daqian's works index ranked third with a drop of 36%.
In addition, among the five major schools of modern painting and calligraphy, the indexes of Beijing-Tianjin School, Shanghai School and New Jinling School all decreased, while the indexes of Chang 'an School and Lingnan School increased.
If we say that the hottest artist in China's modern painting and calligraphy market was Huang Zhou last year. His 198 1 year work "Wandering Grassland" fetched a high price of 654.38+288 billion yuan in Beijing Poly, making it the most expensive work of modern painting and calligraphy in China last year.
Huang Zhou has also become another modern painter with works exceeding 100 million yuan after Zhang Daqian, Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Li Keran and Fu Baoshi. In the same special session, many of Huang Zhou's works also sold for more than 10 million yuan.
Huangzhou is an important transitional figure, who promoted the "Xu Jiang" system of transforming Chinese painting with western realism. However, due to a large number of fakes and artists' works in the market, their works can never be compared with Qi Baishi and Fu Baoshi. However, the advantage of Huangzhou is that there are many masterpieces and few literati-style recreational works, so that his masterpieces can compete with others.
In the southern market, last year's "red man" was that his work "Sleepwalking in Huangshan Mountain" won17.25 million yuan in the Guangdong Spring Auction, setting a new record for Lai's works. Later, at the autumn auction, the Alai Shaoqi Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition, consisting of 46 works, also sold nearly 30 million yuan.
Compared with Qi Baishi, Fu Baoshi, Guan Shanyue and Li Xiongcai, the works of Huangzhou and Lai Shaoqi are relatively underestimated. Lai Shaoqi, in particular, was even rejected by Lingnan calligraphy and painting in his early years.
"Lai Shaoqi was born in Guangdong and returned to Guangdong in his later years. The artistic "reform" was also completed in Guangdong. Although its painting style is different from that of Lingnan School and totally belongs to Xin 'an School, I think Lingnan painting and calligraphy have many aspects, which should not be divided by painting style alone, but by region. "
Expert opinion: How many dark horses are still worthy of attention?
At present, only Lingnan School of Painting has attracted the attention of the national market, and other Lingnan famous artists have not been widely recognized. For example, Kang Youwei's and Liang Qichao's calligraphy still have a chance to by going up one flight of stairs. In recent years, the market awareness of Chinese painting research society has been greatly improved, and the market has risen rapidly, but it has not been widely recognized by the national market; Another example is Ding and Wang Lanruo, whose works are still undervalued. "