HONG KONG (Reuters) - A work by Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi sold for $9.5 million on Saturday, a new auction record for an Asian contemporary artwork, at auctioneer Christie's first evening sale of such art in Hong Kong.
Other records also fell as the auction brought a dash of black-tie glamour to the former British colony's art market, considered the world's third most important auction hub after New York and London.
Affluent Asian collectors in suits and evening dresses were served champagne and canapes before bidding in a packed auction hall. The results suggested the Chinese art market remains resilient despite financial market jitters and lingering fallout from the subprime crisis.
The highlight of the evening was Zeng Fanzhi's large-scale 2-by-3.6 meter work entitled "Mask Series 1996 No. 6", which sold for almost triple its pre-sale estimate. Several telephone bidders helped push the price to HK$75.37 million including the buyer's premium, making it the most expensive Asian contemporary artwork sold at auction, Christie's said.
Zeng's diptych of eight masked youths with red scarves linking arms, hints at Mao Ze-dong's "Little Red Guards" who wreaked social havoc across China during its tumultuous Cultural Revolution. The work, not previously offered at auction, is considered a highlight of Zeng's "Mask" series of ambiguous Chinese figures contending with life under communist party rule.
The previous record for an Asian contemporary artwork was for a set of 14 "gunpowder" drawings by Chinese artist Cai Guoqiang which sold for HK$74.25 million last November.
Other notable results included Chinese contemporary artist Yue Minjun's "Gweong-Gweong", sold for HK$54.1 million ($6.85 million), a new auction record for the artist.
Zeng and Yue are among a group of red-hot Chinese contemporary artists, also including Cai Guoqiang and Zhang Xiaogang, whose works have sold for $6 million or more. A remarkable surge in demand for Chinese art in recent years has been spurred partly by newly affluent Chinese collectors.
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Jeff Healey and The Jazz Wizards And Chris Barber
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Take That star to pen musical drama
Take That star to pen musical drama
Gary Barlow is go under to write a fresh musical comedy drama set in a fictional playing humanistic discipline school.
The Shoot That star will pen songs for Britannia Senior high, an eight-part musical theater dramatic event which testament aviation on ITV1 later this year.
Stringently Come Dance pass judgment Arlene Phillips will as well be part of the project and will choreograph the series.
The drama will be preceded by two behind the scenes documentaries which will prove how Phillips and house producer St. David Ian take actors and actresses to become the stars of the show.
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Eight-spot hour-long episodes will then follow the advancement of the group of pupils practising for a live finale.
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"ITV1 has lined up around of the biggest names in music and amusement to score Britannia High," he said.
Frank Boeijen
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Olsen twins at work on fashion book
Olsen twins at work on fashion book
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen ar collaborating on 'The Influence', a newly java table script about fashion.
Reuters reports that in a argument, the twins' publisher, Penguin, said the scripture would include: "exclusive photographs of Ashley and Mary-Kate from reality renowned photographer Rankin, and a wide diversity of other never-before-seen materials and interviews from Mary-Kate and Ashley's personal collections."
The leger, which is due out in the autumn, will feature film the siblings' hagiographa on artists and designers such as Jack Pierson, Terry Sir Ralph David Richardson and Bob Colacello.
In a statement, Ashley Olsen said: "Mary-Kate and I have filled 'Influence' with the to the highest degree interesting, challenging, creative people we know - the ones wHO helped pave the way for us and our generation."
Her sis said: "Ashley and I interviewed the people world Health Organization have inspired us, with the hope that they will breathe in and teach others."
Title of new Bond film is revealed
Title of new Bond film is revealed
The rubric of the 22nd James Bail bond film has been announced, and it is taken from a short story published by 007 creator Ian Fleming in 1960.
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He continued: "What is great around it is it besides applies to something very important in the game."
The freshly Bond film will be in cinemas in Nov.
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