May 31, 2008
Record prices paid for Asian art in Hong Kong
CHINA: AN EERIE oil-on-canvas diptych by Chinese
artist Zeng Fanzhi, showing mask-clad figures wearing scarves of
the Red Guard, China's communist youth organisation, set an Asian
contemporary art record of HK$75.4 million (€6.14 million)
during lively spring auctions in Hong Kong.