Is the painting of Shi Tao, one of the four monks in the early Qing Dynasty, really priceless?

Shi Tao was a famous painter in the early Qing Dynasty, and was honored as one of the "four monks in the early Qing Dynasty" by later generations. He is not only an innovator in painting practice, but also an art theorist. His novel painting techniques had a far-reaching impact on modern painting in Qing Dynasty and even in China. So what is the price of Shi Tao's landscape painting, which is known as the first person in 300 years since the Qing Dynasty?

Shi Tao has many handed down works, and his fine paintings are mainly collected in Shanghai Museum and Beijing Museum. The collections of Shanghai Museum mainly include: Looking at Plum Gardens, Plum Bamboo Orchids, etc. The main collections of the Beijing Museum are: Seeking the Wonder Peak, Qing Xiang's Calligraphy and Painting Manuscripts, which are a combination of poetry and books, Stone Quarrying in Ink, Slipper Axis in Hengtang in Ink, Yunshan Axis in Ink, Mo Hetu Axis and Meizhu Axis, and other works depicting flowers and orchids. So what is the price of Shi Tao's landscape painting?

Wang once rated Shi Tao as "the first person in the south of the Yangtze River", so his works improved all the way, and at the same time, there were more and more fakes imitating his brushwork, but most of these fakes were not skilled and easy to distinguish from the real ones. Modern painter Zhang Daqian also studied his paintings carefully. His imitation of Shi Tao is extremely difficult to distinguish, but his imitation lines are too smooth and his brushwork is relatively delicate, which is the biggest difference from Shi Tao's original works.

Although it is difficult to see Shi Tao's excellent works in the art market now, his general works or imitations are not cheap. At the Christie's auction on 1990, Shi Tao's book album won 50,000 US dollars, and Wandering Alone won 26,000 US dollars. In the autumn auction of 20 1 1, his "Farewell to a Mountain and a Water Volume in Fujian" was finally bought by an entrepreneur in Zhejiang for 654.38+35.52 million yuan, which is also the highest transaction price of Shi Tao's single work.