Chinese Paintings
the most expensive ones




    the most expensive Chinese paintings ever sold
  • Qiu Ying (1494-1552) - Red Cliff Handscroll - sold for $10.700.000/RMB79.520.000 (2007)
  • Cai Guo-Qiang - group of 14 paintings - $9.500.000 (2007)
  • Qing Dynasty painting - Emperor Qianlong's Review of The Grand Parade of Troops - $8.700.000 (2008)
  • Liu Xiaodong - Battlefield Realism: The 18 Arhats - sold for $7.940.000 (2008)
  • Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322) - Ten Chrysanthemums - sold for $7.000.000/54.400.000HKD (2008)*
  • Yue Minjun - Execution - sold for $5.900.000 (2007)
  • Yun Shouping (1633-1690) - Ferrying a Crane - $5.280.000/RMB36.960.000
  • Wu Guanzhong - Ancient City of Jiaohe - sold for $4.800.000 (2007)
  • Badashanren (1626—1705) - Egret and Rocks - sold for $4.800.000 (2008)
  • Wu Guanzhong - Hibiscus - sold for $4.700.000 (2007)
  • Sanyu - Lotus et Poissons Rouges - sold for $4.700.000/36.500.000HKD (2009)*
  • Badashanren (1626—1705) - Chrysanthemum in Vase - sold for $4.600.000 (2008)
  • Badashanren (1626—1705) - Landscape, Flowers, Birds and Rocks - sold for $4.400.000 (2008)
  • Ma Yuan (1160 – 1225) - Stream Mountian in Autumn - sold for $4.400.000 (2008)
  • Yue Minjun - The Pope - sold for $4.370.000 (2007)
  • Yue Minjun - The Massacre at Chios - sold for $4.100.000 (2007)
  • Wu Guanzhong - Scenery of Northern China - sold for $4.05.000 (2007)
  • Zao Wou-ki - 14.12.59 - sold for $3.800.000 (2007)
  • Yue Minjun - Portrait of the artist and his friends - sold for $2.620.000 (2007)
  • Zhang Xiaogang - Tiananmen Square - sold for $2.300.000 (2006)
  • Zao Wou-ki - 7.4.61 - sold for $2.023.000/15.780.000HKD (2009)
  • Liu Xiaodong - The Joke - sold for $1.640.000 (2007)
  • Zhang Xiaogang - A Big Family - sold for $1.500.000 (2006)
  • Yue Minjun - Music - sold for $1.500.000 (2007)
  • Liu Ye - The Little Mermaid - sold for $1.385.000 (2007)*
  • Zeng Fanzhi - Untitled - sold for $1.105.000 (2009)
  • Zeng Fanzhi - Mask Series - sold for $1.082.000 (2008)*
  • Liu Xiaodong - Brothers - sold for $979.458 (2008)
  • Zhang Xiaogang - Bloodline Series: Comrade No. 120 - sold for $979.000 (2006)
  • Zeng Fanzhi - Self Portrait - sold for $929.280 (2008)
  • Wu Guanzhong - A Door - sold for $615.000/4.820.00HKD (2009)*
  • Liao Chi-Chun - sold for $550.000/4.340.000HKD (2009)*


  • - All prices are for reference
    - *=including a buyers premium



    ma yuan painting
    Ma Yuan (1165-1225), Walking on Path in Spring



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