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HK$9,2M
Autumn Sentiments
No records were set in Hong Kong on 4 April, but the pieces up for sale met with great
enthusiasm from those present in a packed auction room. The highest price of the day,
HK$ 9.2 million, was fetched by "Autumn Sentiments", a handscroll painted by Wu
Huafan in 1937. The next most expensive lots were Guan Liang’s oil painting on canvas,
"Opera Figures", which sold for $HK 4.14 million, five times its estimate, and Huang Zhou’s
"Go the Fair", which went for HK$ 3.91 million. This last work uses ink and colours on
paper, a medium also used by Zhang Daqian in "Fruits and Vegetables" and by Qi Baishi
in "Palm tree and sparrow", which sold for $HK 3.22 million and $HK 3.1 million respectively.
The 300-lot session reserved a special place for local artists born or working in Hong
Kong. Liu Kuo-sung’s "Dialogue between Plane and Line" (ink on paper, 1964) was
bought for HK$ 483,000, while his 1987 handscroll, “Roof of the World” raised
HK$ 713,000. "The Kiss" (acrylics on paper) by Luis Chan, fetched HK$ 690,000, but was
eclipsed by Lui Shou-kwan’s "Lotus" (ink and colours on paper) which sold for
HK$ 747,500, three times its estimate. Sessions dedicated to ceramics and furniture have
yet to take place, but this inaugural sale has already made it abundantly clear that China
Guardian Auctions will be a market player to be reckoned with. Xavier Narbaïts
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