Imperial Scroll Goes to Museum in Shanghai
Asian Art hires logo 15/8/05 8:34 am Page 1 ASIAN ART The newspaper for collectors, dealers,Winter museums Quarter and 2020 galleries • june 2005 • £5.00/US$8/€10 The newspaper for collecTors, dealers, museums and galleries • £5.00/us$10/€10 IMPER IAL SCROLL GOES TO MUSEUM IN SHANGHAI n 8 October, 2020, in what may be one of the longest bidding wars in auction Ohistory, extending beyond 75 minutes with more than 100 bids, a 13th/early 14th- century imperial scroll, Five Drunken Princes Returning on Horseback, by the Yuan-dynasty master painter Ren Renfa (1255-1328), sold for HK$306.6 million (US$39.6 million) to the Long Museum in Shanghai. This establishes the handscroll as the most valuable work sold at Five Drunken Princes Returning on Horseback by Ren Renfa (1255-1327), Yuan dynasty, ink and colour on paper, handscroll, 35.2 x 210.7 cm, auction in Asia in 2020, and the most valuable sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on 8 October, making it the most valuable work of art currently sold at auction in Asia in 2020 Chinese ink painting sold by Sotheby’s Hong Kong. Measuring two metres across, the scroll and taken to the US, where it was subsequently of Post-war Chinese Art, sold over two wanlingui, which achieved HK$57 million (US$7 depicts five drunken princes – one of whom acquired by Walter Hochstadter (1914-2007), a consecutive seasons of the 2020 Spring and million), over 10 times the pre-sale estimate. later became the Tang-dynasty emperor Xuan distinguished dealer and collector of Chinese art.
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