蘇富比拍賣會:中國兩位大腕成功競標歐洲大師畫作

The art world shook on May 11th when apainting by Pablo Picasso was sold for $179m at a Christie's sale in New York to anunidentified bidder—the highest sum ever paid for an artwork at auction. But aSot eby's auction on May 5th, also in New York, caused a bigger tremor At thatsale, bidders from mainland Ch ina agreed to pay a combined total of $116m for works by Vincent van Gogh, ClaudeMonet and another by asso. It was striking evidence of China emerging as anew source of demand for the European masters, and fits buyers' willingnessto bid handsomely.

藝術世界在5月11號發生大地震,當時在紐約克里斯蒂拍賣會上畢加索的一幅畫作被匿名買家以1.79億美元購得;這是有史以來拍賣會上一件藝術品所拍出的最高價格。但是在5月5號也是在紐約舉行的蘇富比拍賣會上來自中國大陸的競標者們以1.16億美元購得梵高,莫奈以及另外一件畢加索的作品。這表明中國成爲了歐洲大師作品的新買家，也 表明了中國的競標者願意花大價錢購買。

Two of the successful bidders at Sotheby'swere movie moguls: Wang Zhongjun, the chairman of Huayi Bro rs Media, one ofChina's largest film companies, who took Picasso's "Femme au Chignon dans unFauteuil" f $29.9m; andWang Jianlin, the chairman of Dalian Wanda, a property conglomerate, who boughtMonet's "B n aux Nymphos, les Rosiers" for $20.4m. Mr Wang was recently named as Asia's richestman by Forbes ma ne. He already has dozens of European works andmore than 1,000 Chinese ones. Guo Qingxiang, who advis im on his artpurchases, says the Wanda boss plans to exhibit the Western collection when itis large enoug

蘇富比的這次拍賣會上，有兩名成功競標者是電影大腕：華誼兄弟公司的主席王中軍，這是中國最大的電影公司之一,他以2990萬美元的價格買下了畢加索的《盤髮髻女子坐像》；還有就是萬達的王健林以2040萬美元買下了莫奈的《睡蓮池與玫瑰》。王健林已經擁有幾十幅歐洲作品，還有1000多箇中國作品。作爲王健林的藝術品購買參謀，郭慶祥說王健林打算在擁有足夠多藝術品後進行展覽。

The number of mainland Chinese bidding fornon-Chinese art at Sotheby's auctions doubled from 2010 to 2014: some 650 ofthem paid a total of more than $410mfor non-Chinese pieces from Sotheby's during that period. But Mr Guo is notalone in saying that Chinese buyers are sometimes unsophisticated. If sottovoce sniping is any measure of the maturity of an art market, maybe Chinahas already arrived.

2010年到2014年間，在蘇富比拍賣會上競拍非中國藝術品的大陸買家數量增加了一倍：在這期間所舉辦的蘇富比拍賣會上，有650名大陸買家在非中國藝術品上總共花費了4.1億美元。但是並非只有郭先生才認爲中國買家有時候是未經世故的。如果低聲誹謗是一個藝術市場成熟度的衡量標準的話，那麼中國或許已經到了這個點。