Zhao Shuru
Evaluating Horses
Found at
Christies
Exquisite Eye: Chinese Paintings Online including the Collection of Sun Ah Book Center, Lot 1673
15. Nov - 1. Dec 2021
Exquisite Eye: Chinese Paintings Online including the Collection of Sun Ah Book Center, Lot 1673
15. Nov - 1. Dec 2021
Estimate: 30.000 - 40.000 HKD
Price realised: 200.000 HKD
Price realised: 200.000 HKD
Description
ZHAO SHURU (1874-1945)
Evaluating Horses
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
132 x 53.5 cm. (52 x 21 <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>8</sub> in.)
Entitled, inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist
Dated winter, yichou year (1925)
Dedicated to Xunru
Evaluating Horses
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
132 x 53.5 cm. (52 x 21 <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>8</sub> in.)
Entitled, inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist
Dated winter, yichou year (1925)
Dedicated to Xunru
Artwork auctioned at five times the upper estimate price
When the work Evaluating Horses by Zhao Shuru was auctioned at Christies in December 2021, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - HKD 40,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than five times as high at HKD 200,000.00 (€ 22,654.18). However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Zhao Shuru - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Cranes At Sunrise, which sold at auction in October 2018 for HKD 475,000.00 (€ 53,485.70).
Kunstwerk zum Fünffachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit Evaluating Horses von Zhao Shuru im Dezember 2021 bei Christies versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – HKD 40.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit HKD 200.000,00 (€ 22.654,18) mehr als fünfmal so hoch. Für andere Arbeiten von Zhao Shuru mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Cranes At Sunrise beobachtet, die im Oktober 2018 für HKD 475.000,00 (€ 53.485,70) versteigert wurde.
Zhao Shuru - Auction history
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