Thursday, April 23, 2009

Mugrabi family

Who is buying Chinese art? The Mugrabi family is
Posted by artradar on March 8, 2009

CHINESE ART COLLECTING
Not everyone is deserting the art market. Artzine, a site which focuses on Chinese art, reports that
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction in London in early February had a few surprisingly strong sales. A Zeng Fanzhi piece from his “Mask Series,” beat estimates and sold for about $880,000 and a Yan Peiming “Mao” portrait from 2004 sold for $459,000. A Wang Guangyi mixed media piece with a bicycle sold for about $193,000.
But this is a recession isn’t it? Who is buying?

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