City Express: A week of major events in the art industry

According to data released recently by Art Price Network, a professional art market website, the top three artist auctions for global art work last year were Picasso, Qi Baishi, and Andy Warhol, among which Chinese artists accounted for the top ten. Four people. In addition to Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian ranked fourth, Xu Beihong and Fu Baoshi were ranked 6th and 9th, respectively. In terms of contemporary art, Zeng Fanzhi, Chen Yifei, Wang Yidong, Zhang Xiaogang, Liu Xiaodong, and Liu Ye also ranked among the top 10 global auction transactions.

The day before yesterday, art critic and calligrapher Huang Yiming sued the director of the National Art Museum of China Fan Di'an and other infringing copyright cases in the second instance and held a hearing at the Beijing Higher People’s Court. The plaintiff stated that Fan Dian's “Space Imagination: Xiao Changzheng's penetrating sculpture exhibition” in the exhibition of the exhibition had a large-scale infringement of his “artistic literary theory” on the “modern composition of natural spirit” in the propaganda, including the signature of Fan Dean and his life in Heilongjiang. The article "Natural Spirit" was completely plagiarized in the "modern composition of natural spirit." The trial result has not yet been announced.

Since last weekend (March 18-27), the annual European Art and Antique Fair (TEFAF) has been held in the small Dutch town of Maastricht. At this 24-year-old European art festival, the top exhibits are dazzling. There are both Renoir's famous "Flower Girl", El Greco's sculpture "Behold, this man" and Henry Moore. The masterpieces of modern art such as “Mother and Son Seated Image” also include antique Jaguar porcelain customized for the Chinese emperor, and antique treasures such as the 15th-century German equestrian helmet. Among them, the unique wooden sculpture created by Juan Miro was sold within a few hours after the opening.

On March 22, the auditorium of the Montparnasse Elysées in Paris, built in the 18th century, suffered a fire and the internal building was seriously damaged. As one of the birthplaces of Cancan, the Montpellier Elysee Auditorium was immortalized by Toulouse-Lautrick's paintings. Its architecture was listed as a historical monument in Paris in 1988. In recent years it has accommodated modern music, including heavy metals. Hip hop, punk band performances.