Christie's to auction 'highest-estimated Asian artwork' in Hong Kong
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Christie's to sale 'highest-estimated Asian artwork' in Hong Kong
A journalist takes pictures of the 1924 painting by Xu Beihong titled "Slave and Lion" during a media event earlier the item goes on an auction at Christie's, in Hong Kong, Communist china Apr nineteen, 2021. REUTERS/Joyce Zhou
HONG KONG: Auction house Christie's unveiled on Monday what it called "the highest-estimated Asian artwork" to ever become under the hammer, a Xu Beihong painting chosen "Slave and Lion," which it expects to fetch between U.s.a.$45 1000000 and US$58 one thousand thousand.
The 1924-dated painting by Xu, who is regarded as i of the most of import figures of Chinese realism, will go on public preview in Beijing and Shanghai this month before being auctioned in Hong Kong on May 24.
The painting was sold in the global fiscal hub in 2006 at Christie'due south for HKUS$53.9 1000000 (US$6.9 one thousand thousand), a record at the time for a Chinese oil painting.
"The market at the very tiptop is very stiff; (at that place is) a lot of demand, extremely driven by rarity, which is exactly what this piece of work is about," Christie'southward Asia Pacific President Francis Belin said.
The story behind the painting is rooted in Roman mythology, according to Christie's presentation.
A runaway slave was captured and, as punishment, thrown into the Colosseum with a lion. Merely the creature did non assail the slave, who had earlier removed a thorn stuck in the lion'southward mitt. The slave and the lion were somewhen fix free.
(U.s.a.$one = 7.7706 Hong Kong dollars)
(Reporting by Joyce Zhou, Writing by Marius Zaharia. Editing by Gerry Doyle)
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