Zhang Ruitu, Tang Poems in Running-Cursive Script, $64,300 to $90,000 estimate is due to be sold at Christie's Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy Auction in Hong Kong on April 30, 2025. Ink on gold-flecked paper, 30.6 x 558.0cm.
Huang Yongyu, Dragon 2012 (2012), $33,400 to $51,400 estimate, is due to be sold at Christie's Fine Chinese Modern and Contemporary Ink Paintings Auction in Hong Kong on May 1, 2025. Ink and colour on paper, 61.0 x 243.0cm.
Empress Dowager Cixi, Chrysanthemum and Rock, $38,600 to $51,400 estimate is due to be sold at Christie's Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy Auction in Hong Kong on April 30, 2025. Ink on paper, 127.5 x 63.2cm.
Lin Fengmian, Woodcutter Returning, $51,400 to $77,100 estimate is due to be sold at Christie's Fine Chinese Modern and Contemporary Ink Paintings Auction in Hong Kong on May 1, 2025. Ink and colour on paper, 66.0 x 66.5cm. The work has been traded once in the past.
One morning you are packed into a bus to check into five galleries at a trot, running the gamut from surrealism to pop art to artworks in which tigers and ravens turn up among everyday objects on a canvas.