10 Most Expensive Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Artworks in 2011

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傅抱石《毛主席诗意》册页 Fu Baoshi’s album: (Chairman Mao’s Poetry)

Transaction price: 230 million yuan

Date of sale: 2011-11-17

Auction house: BeijingHanhai Auction

Chairman Mao (Mao Zedong or Mao Tse Tung) was the founder of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party.

On November 17, 2011, the first day of the autumn auction season in Beijing Hanhai, Chairman Mao With Poetry, which was created in the peak period of Fu Baoshiwas sold at an auction for 230m yuan ($36.52m USD) after a long period of bidding and became the first of more than one hundred million works at an auction of Fu Baoshi.