According to the auction prices in the calligraphy and painting market:
In ancient times: the paintings of Tang Yin, Wang Meng, Wu Bin, Shi Tao, Zhu Da and Zheng Xie were the most valuable.
Modern times: paintings by Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Zhang Daqian, Li Keran, Pan Tianshou and Fu Baoshi are the most valuable.
Modern: Paintings by Huang Zejin, Wu Guanzhong, Jin Shangyi, Fan Zeng, Huang Yongyu and Han Meilin are the most valuable.
As of 2015, the highest auction price for Chinese calligraphy and painting is:
The highest auction price for calligraphy: Huang Tingjian's "Inscription on the Pillar"
The highest auction price for a painting: ?Tang Yin's " "Viewing Waterfalls on Mount Lushan"
Highest starting price for a painting: Huang Zejin's "Harmony of Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine-Nine Chinese Dragons"
Ming Dynasty? Tang Yin's "Viewing Waterfalls on Mount Lushan" 2013 Sold for US$590 million
On September 19, 2013, Sotheby's Auction Company in New York held a special auction of ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy. Among them, a vertical scroll "Viewing the Waterfall on Mount Lu" by the famous Ming Dynasty painter Tang Yin started bidding at US$300 million. After 120 rounds of bidding, it was finally sold at a sky-high price of US$590 million (approximately RMB 3.59 billion), refreshing the world of Tang Yin's calligraphy and painting auctions. Record
Huang Tingjian's "Main Pillar Inscription" was sold for 436.8 million yuan in 2011.
The starting price of Huang Zejin's "Harmonious Picture of Chinese Dragons" is HK$1.9 billion. (100-meter dot painting)
Collector: "This painting is a painting full of good wishes. The title on the front of the painting is "May the Chinese nation be united forever, and may the people of the world be united forever." "Eternal Peace", later titled "Harmony for Everyone and Peace in the World". This painting contains nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine dragons. It took the artist six years to complete it. It is the best painting to date. A rare scroll of Chinese pointillism on the market. Rare and precious, although this painting is the work of a modern painter, it has a representative significance that transcends the times. ”
Expert comments: “It is a painting with a profound meaning. The title of the painting alone is worthy of praise. Nine
Nine means long, permanent and long-lasting. Hualong means Chinese dragon, which generally refers to Chinese people. The title of the painting is "long-lasting, permanent, and long-lasting harmony for the Chinese people." This painting is not only a good painting that
blesses the people of China, but also a good painting that blesses people all over the world. This can be proved by the inscription on the painting "I wish the Chinese nation will always be united and the people of the world will always be in peace" and the inscription at the end of the painting "Everyone
Harmony and peace in the world" . From the analysis of the inscription of this painting, the author wanted to tell the world through art that "the world must be united and the world must be peaceful." The author's thoughts are noble. "
The starting price of Qi Baishi's "Twelve Screens of Landscape" is 1.5 billion yuan.
Collector: The twelve screens of this landscape are respectively "Family on the River", "Shiyan Shuang" "Shadow", "Banqiao
Lonely Sail", "Cypress Trees", "Afterglow on the Far Shore", "White Pine House", "Apricot Flower Cottage",
"Smoke" "Deep Sail Shadow", "Fir Tree Tower", "Spring Rain in the Mountains", "Bantang Lotus Fragrance", "Mangrove White Spring". "Twelve Screens of Landscape" was created by Qi Baishi in 1925, when he was 62 years old. It was a birthday gift to Chen Zilin, a famous doctor in Beijing during the Republic of China. It has a uniform shape and is extremely rare. This is It is also a landscape work created during the fourth year of his "decline reform". It can be said to be the most representative landscape work during the transformation period of Shiraishi's style.
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To date, the top 12 paintings with the highest prices sold at auction for Chinese paintings are:
1. Tang Yin's "Viewing Waterfalls on Mount Lu" from the Ming Dynasty was sold for US$590 million (approximately RMB 100 million) in 2013 3.59 billion yuan).
2. Qi Baishi's "Picture of high standing pines and cypresses, four-character couplet in seal script" was sold for 425.5 million yuan in 2011.
3. "Picture of Migration to Zhichuan" by Wang Meng of the Yuan Dynasty. 》Sold in 2011 for RMB 402 million.
4. Huang Zejin's "I Am Chinese" was sold for 298.8 million yuan in 2014.
5. Li Keran's "Ten Thousand Mountains Are Red" was sold for 293.25 million yuan in 2012.
6. Pan Tianshou's "Eagle Rock Mountain Flowers" was sold for 279.45 million yuan in 2015.
7. Xu Beihong's "Kiuzhou Nothing and Happy Farming" was sold for 266.8 million yuan in 2012.
8. Fu Baoshi's "Chairman Mao's Poems" was sold for 230 million yuan in 2011.
9. Qi Baishi's "Landscape Album" was sold for 194 million yuan in 2011.
10. Wu Bin's "Eighteen True Pictures" of the Ming Dynasty was sold for 169 million yuan in 2009.
11. Zhang Daqian's "Joyful Couple" was sold for HKD 191.06 million in 2011.
12. Wu Guanzhong's "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River" was sold for 149.5 million yuan in 2011.
To date, the top five most expensive Chinese calligraphy paintings sold at auction are:
1. Huang Tingjian's "Inscription on the Pillar Pillar" of the Northern Song Dynasty was sold for 436.8 million yuan in 2011.
2. Wang Xizhi's "Peace Note" hand scroll was sold for 308.0 million yuan in 2010.
3. The Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong's hand scroll "Baita Mountain Chronicles" was sold for 116.15 million yuan in 2014.
4. Northern Song Dynasty Zeng Gong's calligraphy "Bureau Shitie" was sold in RMB for 108.0 million yuan in 2009.
5. The hand scroll "The Traces of Seal Script Inscribed by Xu Changshi by Famous Sages of the Song and Yuan Dynasties" was sold for RMB 10,080 in 2009.