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With an oil painting piece by late Chinese painter Chen Yifei
priced at some US$ one million at an auction in Shanghai Thursday,
Chinese oil paintings come of age in art auctions.
Chen's oil piece Water Village in Morning Sun Rays was
valued between US$750,000 to one million at Shanghai's auction
house.
The painting was one of the Village Zhou Zhuang serial
magnum opuses that brought Chen fame, and Chen's own favorite in
the series.
The superb work is expected to have the highest price of all
Chen's paintings. Previously, Chen's masterpiece Sunny
Days was auctioned off at the stunning price of some
US$530,000 in Beijing in May, compared to the highest price of
162,000 dollars for another of his works when he was alive.
Chen, a native of Zhenhai city in east China's Zhejiang
Province, died of illness in Shanghai in April at the age of 59. He
had held several exhibitions in Washington D.C., New York and
Tokyo. His landscape paintings, featuring the geography south of
the Yangtze River, are widely collected.
Another work, Lin Zexu Inspecting Macao, a Chinese
award winning oil piece made by Associate Professor Guo Beiping,
has been priced at between 200,000 and 325,000 dollars in the
Shanghai auction. The painting portrays the grand scene of the
imperial envoy inspecting Macao to ban opium in 1939.
There will be more than 300 oil paintings by Chinese
contemporary artists on sale at the auction.
(Xinhua News Agency November 11, 2005)
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