Yearender: Priciest art items sold in 2015
Updated: 2015-12-25 07:00
(Chinaculture.org)
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Calligraphy piece by Lu Xun [Photo/Beijing Times] |
9. Chinese literati Lu Xun's handwriting, $477,000, Dec 5
A rarely seen calligraphy of modern literati Lu Xun (1881-1936) sold for 3.05 million yuan ($477,000) at a Beijing auction in December.
The running script, in the form of a four-sentence Buddhist hymn, has 16 characters, translated as, "A butcher becomes a Buddha the moment he drops his cleaver. A man becomes a killer the moment he drops his sutras".
The final price means that every character Lu wrote fetched about 190,000 yuan, an auction record for the author's calligraphy.
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