Ferocious demand for Chinese artworks at Fine Art Asia
- October 11, 2010 13:10
The Fine Art Asia fair at the Hong Kong Convention Centre wrapped last week with strong sales concurrent with the record-breaking Sotheby's auctions. Dealers who exhibited Asian antiques are now faced with an inventory dilemna---a supply shortage---while dealers in Western art, who offered up big names like Marc Chagall and Andy Warhol, wondered where the mainland Chinese buyers were that they anticipated.
“This Chinese appetite for Chinese art is totally unprecedented,” London-based Michael Goedhuis, who specializes in Chinese art, told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s remorseless, relentless — nothing is stopping them from buying. Nothing.”
About 18,000 visitors from around the world attended the fair which showcased 5,000 works of art and sold HK$320 million (US$41.26 million) in art and antiques, a sum 40% higher than last year.
Read more at Wall Street Journal
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![A 19th century Seven Piece "Chrysanthemum" Pattern Sterling Silver Coffee & Tea Service, which was exhibited in the Tiffany & Co. booth at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago](/images/c/78/96/Tiffany___Co__Makers_Seven_Piece_"Chrysanthem100x100_c.jpg "A 19th century Seven Piece \"Chrysanthemum\" Pattern Sterling Silver Coffee & Tea Service, which was exhibited in the Tiffany & Co. booth at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago")
