Chinese oil painting fetches HK$53.8 million |
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| Workers put on display the oil painting "Slave and Lion" by Chinese artist Xu Beihong during a Christie's auction1 in Hong Kong November 26, 2006. The painting has smashed the record for a Chinese oil painting, selling for HK$53.9 million ($6.9 million). |
| HONG KONG，Nov. 7 - An unknown collector forked out HK$53.8 million (US$6.92 million) Sunday for a 1920s painting by a renowned2 Chinese artist, setting a new record price for Chinese oil paintings.
"Slave and Lion" by Xu Beihong attracted furious bidding by buyers from around the world at the Christie's autumn auction in Hong Kong. The auction house declined to provide information about the buyer.
The previous record price of 30 million yuan (US$3.82 million) was also set by another of Xu's oil paintings, "Silly Old Man Moves a Mountain," sold in Beijing five months ago.
The latest record-breaking artwork demonstrated Xu's technique of combining a Western sense of form and Chinese line of drawing.
It was one of the very few works Xu created during his stay in Berlin in the early 1920s, Christie's said.
"Slave and Lion" depicts3 a story of a slave and a lion. The slave, Androcles, who helps a lion with a thorn in its paw, later runs into the same lion in a cruel human-animal battle game staged in a Rome theatre. The emperor is moved by the reunion, and frees the slave.
The auction yesterday included about 2,500 classical and modern paintings, luxury watches, jewellery and ceramics4, predominantly from the region.
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| n.拍卖；拍卖会；vt.拍卖 |
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- They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
- They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
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- He is one of the world's renowned writers.他是世界上知名的作家之一。
- She is renowned for her advocacy of human rights.她以提倡人权而闻名。
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- The book vividly depicts French society of the 1930s. 这本书生动地描绘了20 世纪30 年代的法国社会。
- He depicts the sordid and vulgar sides of life exclusively. 他只描写人生肮脏和庸俗的一面。
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- an exhibition of ceramics by Picasso 毕加索陶瓷作品展
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