Cao Yu
Calligraphy in Running Script
Estimate: 700 - 1.400 USD
Price realised: 1.750 USD
Price realised: 1.750 USD
Description
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
22 x 10 in. (55.9 x 25.4 cm.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated summer, dingmao year (1987)
Dedicated to Haosheng (Professor Howard H.S. Chao)
22 x 10 in. (55.9 x 25.4 cm.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated summer, dingmao year (1987)
Dedicated to Haosheng (Professor Howard H.S. Chao)
A top price for Cao Yu
The work Calligraphy in Running Script by Cao Yu was sold in the Fine Chinese Paintings auction at Christies in New York in September 2018. The »bidding war« ended at USD 1,750.00 (€ 1,505.76), 25% above the upper estimate. With this result, Calligraphy in Running Script is even the most expensive work of art by Cao Yu that we have observed at auctions so far.
Ein Spitzenpreis für Cao Yu
Die Arbeit Calligraphy in Running Script von Cao Yu wurde im September 2018 in der Auktion Fine Chinese Paintings bei Christies in New York versteigert. Das »Bietergefecht« endete beim Preis von USD 1.750,00 (€ 1.505,76) und damit 25% über dem oberen Schätzpreis. Mit diesem Ergebnis ist Calligraphy in Running Script sogar das teuerste Kunstwerk von Cao Yu, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.