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Contemporary Chinese Art: Generating Debate and Sometimes, Staggering Prices

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Share: With relatively little off-limits, artists are producing diverse and often controversial works. By CHELSEA MASON Imagine an investment that returns over 6,000% over twelve years. This is exactly what some collectors of contemporary Chinese art are receiving at recent auctions around the world. Last year, collector Howard Farber sold Wang Guangyi’s 1996 painting “The […]

Is Bacon in more demand than Picasso?

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Share:AS Sotheby’s and Christie’s gear up for their famously extravagant summer contemporary art sales, the mood is mixed.Last October’s evening sales at Christie’s saw earnings of £34.87m for the auction house and the art world was paddling about in a Frieze-Week sea of champagne; last June the credit crunch was a distant rumour and the […]

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