10 Most Expensive Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Artworks in 2011

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齐白石《松柏高立图篆书四言联》 Qi Baishi: Eagle Standing on Pine Tree

Transaction price:425.5 millionyuan

Date of sale: 2011-05-22

Auction house:China Guardian Auctions

The painting was sold at an auction for 425.5m yuan ($65.5m USD) after 35minutes of bidding, according to the auction house China Guardian. This is the second-highest amount paid for a piece of art at an auction in mainland China. Qi Baishi(1863-1957) painted it in 1946 for the man who then led China, Chiang Kai-shek. It was intended as a gift for his 60th birthday.