When Christie’s Auction House first entered the secondary art market of mainland China in 2005, it licensed its brand to a local auction house and received a total of RMB 97,000,000 (roughly ...

As Su Shi’s “Wood and Rock” goes to auction, we are reminded that the discussion of genuine and fake paintings is ever-present in Chinese art history. Kealey Boyd October 17, 2018 ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art completed a $3 million Andrew Mellon Foundation matching grant to establish the new June and Simon K.C. Li Center for Conservation of Chinese paintings.

It always feels like early autumn in the Chinese painting galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The lighting is warm but low; the décor, wheat-beige and nut-brown.

Over 100 masterworks by 59 artists spanning the Ming and Qing dynasties are on view at China Institute Gallery in New York. Zhu Da (1626–1705), “Flowers on a River” (1697), hand scroll; ink ...

Change in Total Sales, # of Lots Offered and Sold Painting Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows ...

That scroll’s history is as storied as the journey depicted in the 53-foot-long painting itself. The core of Weng’s trove dates from the Ming and Qing dynasties — basically from 1368 to 1911.

An extremely rare, 11th-century Chinese scroll could set an auction price record for an Asian artwork, when it goes on the block at Christie’s November Hong Kong sale.