$23.6 million Chinese contemporary work

November 21 2011

Picture: cultural-china.com

A work by Wu Guanzhong, Ten Thousand Kilometres of the Yangtze River (detail above), has sold at auction in Beijing for $23.6m. I think (but will have to check) that this is a new record for an individual work by a Chinese contemporary artist. More on Wu Guanzhong here.

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