Wu Changshuo's freehand brushwork flowers are famous all over the world, and his achievements in stone carving are of epoch-making significance. Later, he was elected as the first president of Xiling Printing Society, and he was a well-deserved master. It can be said that it is Wu Changshuo's profound knowledge of calligraphy and seal cutting that makes his art an important condition for borrowing the past and opening up the present. This paper intercepts the classified data of "calligraphy" in Wu Changshuo's paintings and calligraphy works since 1994, and studies its market situation. According to the incomplete statistics of Yachang Art Market Monitoring Center, since 1993, Wu Changshuo's personal calligraphy works have been auctioned 2573 times, with a turnover of 1896 times and a turnover of 4150,000 yuan.
From 2000 to 2003, the unit price index of calligraphy in Wu Changshuo was around 30,000 yuan/piece, and it began to rise in 2004. In the autumn of 2005, a small breakthrough was achieved, and the unit price index rose to 145800 yuan/piece. On October 24th, 2005/kloc-0, Sotheby's auctioned "Selected Works of Wu Changshuo 1926". This work is neat and energetic, and it belongs to the outstanding calligraphy in his later years. Since then, Wu Changshuo's unit price has remained at10-15,000 yuan/square foot. A wave of market peaks began to appear in the spring of 2065,438+00, and the unit price index in the autumn of 2065,438+065,438+00 reached 483,300 yuan/square foot. 20 1 1 year 1 month 65438+2 Tianjin cultural relics auction "Four screens near Shi Guwen in Wu Changshuo Wuwu (19 18) year" sold for 5.824 million yuan, which was the highest-priced work of the season. This work is based on Shi Guwen's original work.
Wu Changshuo specialized in lithograph seal cutting in his early years. He studied many ancient posts, but he studied Shi Guwen all his life. Shi Guwen's calligraphy style is the most important cornerstone of his artistic career. In the TOP 10 list of Wu Changshuo calligraphy auction, all the works are seal script series (Shi Guwen) except TOP2, which is a running script. Shi Guwen seal script series occupies an absolute dominant position in Wu Changshuo's high-priced calligraphy works, and the fine seal script is about 400,000-500,000 yuan per square foot.