The combing of academic context has always been a part of Yongle Auction's modern and contemporary art section. This season, Yongle's 2024 Autumn Auction's modern and contemporary art section has multiple clues and rich academic context.

In the "Lansheng Night Market", there are works that are linked by the evolution of "portraits" in the era, as well as works that recreate and reshape the "landscape" theme at different stages. At the same time, there are also top works of Asian art.

Yongle’s main “New Painting” section has launched representative works of many representative artists born in the 1970s and 1980s at key/turning points in their careers, as well as masterpieces by representative artists of the “post-85 new generation”. Its market performance is worth looking forward to.

The New Wave section features more outstanding masterpieces by artists born between 1985 and 1990, which have great collection potential and their performance at auction is worth looking forward to.

The preview of this season's Yongle 2024 Autumn Auction will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel Beijing from December 7th to 8th, and the contemporary art section will be held on December 9th.

1. Evolution of character portraits in different eras

Taking "figure" and "portrait" paintings as clues, this season Yongle not only presents Wu Guanzhong's rare "nude" figure paintings, but also brings classic figure-themed creations by Zhang Xiaogang, Zhang Enli, Liu Xiaohui and others.

Wu Guanzhong: Fountain

In Wu Guanzhong's creation, the human body is a very important subject. In his early years, he created a large number of "human body" works. After returning to China in 1950, he was influenced and criticized by the revolutionary realist creation mode at that time. The original form of figure painting was impacted. At the same time, he was unwilling to paint according to a fixed pattern. Wu Guanzhong has since alienated himself from figure painting and switched to landscape painting. This alienation lasted for forty years. In the 1990s, Mr. Wu Guanzhong began to pick up "figure" painting again. The "figure painting" creation at this time can be regarded as the culmination of his performance.

Although Wu Guanzhong's works are produced in large quantities, most of his masterpieces are kept in art galleries or in the hands of important private collectors. They are not easily put up for auction. Among them, his "human body" works are even more rare.

This season's Yongle Autumn Auction features Wu Guanzhong's "body" painting "Spring", created in 1995. In the painting, a plump female body lies beside a "mountain spring". Wu Guanzhong does not simply focus on the realistic reproduction of the figure, but adds more expressive and abstract elements. In addition, with more than 40 years of experience in depicting "famous mountains and rivers", he combines the landscape intention with the human body modeling, creating a unique modeling concept and formal beauty.

Fountain was auctioned in Hong Kong in 2013, with an estimated price of HK$4-6 million, and was eventually sold for HK$7.015 million, far exceeding the highest estimate. It is now on the market again after 11 years, and its performance at the auction is worth looking forward to.

Zhang Xiaogang: Amnesia and Memory No.8

"Portraits" are the main subject of Zhang Xiaogang's creation. From the "Bloodline-Big Family" series in the 1990s to the "Amnesia and Memory" series, the artist depicts a "collective portrait" of family, individual, era, and society through the creation of characters.

The "Amnesia and Memory" series is a new series developed by Zhang Xiaogang after the "Bloodline-Big Family" series. Entering the millennium, facing the great changes in society, Zhang Xiaogang's creation shifted from exploring the most representative "family bloodline" in the social structure to depicting "personal psychology". In the works of this period, the expressionless and homogenized faces that appear repeatedly constitute a unified social group portrait, showing a certain contradictory relationship between collective unconsciousness and personal psychology.

Zhang Xiaogang's "Amnesia and Memory No. 8" was created in 2007. It depicts a typical male figure in the series. However, unlike the earlier works in the series, the figure no longer focuses on the eyes, but appears with eyes closed. The expression of the figure conveys a "psychological" emotion: through this, the artist expresses a more introspective, absurd, daydreamy perception and experience.

This portrait painting is quite large in size. In 2018, it was sold for HK$1.875 million at the Hong Kong Autumn Auction. This time it was auctioned in the mainland, and the price was quite attractive.

Zhang Enli "Smoking Man"

From 1990 to 2000, Zhang Enli's paintings were mainly about people. During this period, the characters he depicted were friends, colleagues, a woman walking on the street, people buying vegetables in the market, etc. He showed the living conditions of urban people with the posture of an observer and scrutinizer, and through the detached expressionist narrative tone.

Among the different series of works created by Zhang Enli so far, the early "Urban Figures" series has attracted more attention from the market. The top five works at auction are all from this period. This season's Yongle "Smoking Man" was created in 1997 and is one of the representative works of the early "Figures" series. In the autumn auction of 2021, "Smoker", created in the same year, with the same size and the same subject matter, was sold for 5.865 million yuan. It is currently the fifth highest price for Zhang Enli's auction. The performance of this work this season is worth looking forward to.

Liu Xiaohui: Untitled - The Shape of Intervention

Liu Xiaohui is a post-70s artist who has attracted much attention in the art market in recent years. Currently, the auction record for artist Liu Xiaohui was created by Yongle Auction in the autumn auction of 2023.

Untitled: Shape of Intervention was created between 2015 and 2017, and was exhibited at ShanghART Gallery’s solo exhibition “Two Actions” in 2018. In this exhibition, Liu Xiaohui broke the well-known personal label of “back view” in his works, and depicted a new theme with two symmetrical figures in motion.

In this new theme, the actions of people in front of the mirror that appear to be undressing or dressing attempt to reveal a "truth" - the same action may have different, or even completely opposite, meanings in different dimensions.

From "Back View" in the previous stage to "Two Actions" in the new stage, Liu Xiaohui has been constantly making breakthroughs and exploring new possibilities in his personal creation.

This batch of works also represents Liu Xiaohui's current success in the market.

2. “Reconstruction and Reshaping” of Abstract Landscape

In the history of art, the understanding and cognition of "landscape" has lasted for thousands of years. At the intersection of different cultures of the East and the West, from integration to breaking, and then to innovation, how Chinese artists "recreate and reshape" the "abstract landscape" in their hearts in different eras is still a proposition that generations of artists continue to strive for.

In this autumn auction, Yongle presents the understanding of "abstract landscape" by artists from different eras such as Zao Wou-Ki, Zhou Chunya, Liu Wei, Zeng Fanzhi, and brings classic masterpieces representing these artists.

Zao Wou-Ki: Untitled

Zao Wou-Ki went to France to study in 1948. He integrated traditional Chinese painting techniques and cultural core with Western painting styles, and discovered traditional Chinese abstract art forms in the complex world of Western abstract art.

In 1951, Zao Wou-Ki met Paul Klee, who had a significant influence on his artistic creation. This abstract landscape "Untitled" created in 1952 belongs to Zao Wou-Ki's early works and is a classic work of his "Klee period" in his exploration of abstraction.

Although the painting is not large in size, it is just right for the artist to create tension in the painting. It creates an impressive rhythm and dynamics, interweaving a rich visual effect. Since then, Chinese oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, primitive murals, symbolization and other elements have gradually appeared in Zao Wou-Ki's works.

This work was sold for 4.6535 million yuan in 2021. As a classic representative work of Zao Wou-Ki's early years, it deserves attention.

Zhou Chunya: Peach Blossom Spring in Jiangnan

Unlike many painters of his time, Zhou Chunya's artistic creation has never focused on grand historical narratives or social themes, but has always been focused on a deep insight into individual experience and human desires. From the "Mountain Rocks" and "Green Dog" series in the 1990s to the "Peach Blossom" series after the millennium, the artist has gradually constructed a unique personal visual spectrum in his creations with surreal scenes, unnatural colors and thick and accumulated brushstrokes.

"Jiangnan Peach Blossom Spring" is Zhou Chunya's masterpiece created in 2007. Compared with the previous peach blossom series, the peach blossoms in this work appear more mature and restrained against the clear sky. The artist uses the image of "peach blossom" to create a fantasy world like a paradise, and in the visual and psychological context filled with boundless spring colors, he finds the most idealized artistic form for emotion and color, love and desire.

Liu Wei: Landscape

In 1998, Liu Wei chose to break away from the "cynical realism" narrative images that made him famous, and turned to landscape painting, climbing to the peak of art again. Since then, "landscape painting" has been an important theme of Liu Wei's artistic creation. On the one hand, his "landscape" works are inspired by Gerhard Richter, repeatedly dry brushing the picture to obtain a blurred smudge effect, and on the other hand, they integrate the brushstrokes and ink colors of traditional Chinese painting "mountains and rocks", forming a wild and unrestrained charm. Producing unique works that "learn from nature outside and get the source of the heart inside".

The "Landscape" on auction this time is a large-scale work, created in 2014. It is the most recent work in Liu Wei's "Landscape" series that has been auctioned so far. The work has participated in the large-scale group exhibition "Art History 40×40" at Powerlong Art Museum.

Zeng Fanzhi: Untitled

Zeng Fanzhi's "Untitled" belongs to his "random brush" series. It originated from his exploration of the "abstract landscape" series that began around 2000. The "random brush" creation is Zeng Fanzhi's re-exploration of painting language. He gained inspiration about lines from the experience that his left hand could not accurately control the brush. A brand-new "abstract landscape" that expresses nature and consciousness with pure lines and colors grows out of the canvas. The strong contrast, the messy and intertwined lines, and the graceful movements make the work grow a certain oriental color.

The "Untitled" work being auctioned this time was created in 2016. Currently, the "Random Brushstrokes" series of works from this period rarely appear in the auction market. It is a rare masterpiece.

Liu Ye, Outside the Window

The "Berlin Period" is a very critical stage in Liu Ye's artistic career. The expressionist landscape works of this period are between realism and surrealism. They not only inherit the colors and mysterious sense of space of Western modernist masters such as Mondrian and Magritte, but also incorporate his own "life experience" from the East.

During the entire "Berlin Period", Liu Ye painted only more than 20 works, but it was this groundbreaking series that laid the foundation for his highly respected personal style in the future and was recognized by the academic community as the true starting point of his painting journey. During this period, "Outside the Window", created in 1992, was the only landscape-themed work. It was also the first work to use the important painting symbol "airplane", so it has a very special significance in the study of the painter's early creative genealogy.

At present, his second most expensive work at auction, "Golden Avenue", is the last masterpiece of his "Berlin period". In the spring auction of 2023, another rare masterpiece of the "Berlin period", "Baroque", was sold at Yongle for 23 million yuan. This shows the influence and appeal of the works of this period in the market.

"Outside the Window", created in 1992 and auctioned at Yongle this time, is an important work of Liu Ye during his "Berlin period". It is not only an extremely rare early landscape painting, but also a work that connects the past and the future, foreshadowing his minimalism and abstract style after the millennium.

Ding Yi, Ten Signs 2012-12

Ding Yi's "Ten Indications" series, which he started to create in the late 1980s, has become a unique "symbol" in Chinese contemporary art. Among the countless "Ten Indications" series he created in his career, the "Ten Indications" series that he started in 2012 is the work of Ding Yi's return to black and white from the fluorescent series, and also his perception of the urbanization process. In an interview, Ding Yi once explained, "The fluorescent series is to see the city as close as possible, and the black and white series is to push the city further and further away." Fluorescent color is a celebration of urbanization, while black and white is an examination and self-reflection of the urbanization model.

Zhang Enli: Elasticity (I)

In 2013, Zhang Enli created the "Elasticity" series of works. At this time, the artist's depiction of lines has become more mature, and presents a sense of relaxation that is easy to use. He regards "lines" as "portraits" and creates them away from specific images. This marks that the artist's creation has entered a new stage.

In the autumn auction of 2023, the work "Elasticity (IV)" created in the same year was estimated at 2.5 million to 3.5 million yuan, and was finally sold for 4.83 million yuan, far exceeding the highest estimate. Although the work auctioned this time is slightly smaller in size, it is the first work in the series. It is also worthy of attention.

Sang Huoyao: Autumn in the Ancient Capital

Artist Sang Huoyao's work once set a new personal record of 1.84 million yuan at the spring auction. This time, his large-scale work "Autumn in the Ancient Capital" is being auctioned again, which is worthy of attention.

3. Asia’s top art masterpieces

While focusing on Chinese modern and contemporary art, Yongle has also expanded its horizons to the international stage. This season's autumn auction brought works by many international artists, including representative works by top Japanese artists such as Yayoi Kusama and Izumi Kato.

Yayoi Kusama: Revelation from Heaven

In the rich and varied creative context of Yayoi Kusama, "Revelation from Heaven" is a work that can be interpreted from multiple dimensions. The dense mesh in the painting is a style that the artist began to develop as early as 1960, and has now developed into a more mature and confident style. Created in 2004, "Revelation from Heaven" combines all of Kusama's basic creative elements: continuous repetition, inverted and deformed patterns, accumulation of geometric shapes and dots, which is dazzling in the simple and complex elements. For the viewer, it is a confusing and therapeutic vision.

Izumi Kato: Untitled (Diptych)

Izumi Kato is an internationally renowned Japanese artist. He has participated in the 52nd Venice Biennale. In recent years, his works have begun to attract much attention at auctions.

Izumi Kato is known for his signature primitive “human” works. He uses his hands instead of pens to draw, blending human figures that resemble embryos or elves with earth, wood, and nature. Through Kato’s creations, he blends many elements such as nature, gods, and innocence.

1. 70s-80s: A collection of representative works during the turning point/critical period of career

As the main force of the "new painting" generation, the post-70s and post-80s generations have formed a strong momentum, especially in market performance. The works of artists at key turning points in their careers have performed strongly in the market, and key representative works often continue to set new highs.

This season, Yongle’s “New Painting” section sorts out the representative works of many representative artists born in the 1970s and 1980s during the key periods of their careers, which should not be missed.

Chen Fei: Mandrill

In 2011, Chen Fei held the most important solo exhibition in his career, "Stranger", at Today Art Museum. Most of his high-priced works are from this exhibition, including "Stars fill the sky, I still only love the full moon (double panel)", which was sold for 8.74 million yuan in 2023, setting an auction record for the artist.

In recent years, whenever the artist's works from this exhibition are released at auction, they have attracted much attention from collectors. This season's Yongle's "Mandrill" is from this exhibition. This large-scale work will undoubtedly attract much attention in this season's auction.

Ouyang Chun, The King (Part 2)

In 2010, Ouyang Chun held a solo exhibition "King" at the Berlin Collector's Gallery, and then the exhibition toured to the Austrian National Gallery. It became Ouyang Chun's famous exhibition. Currently, three of his top ten auction works were exhibited in this exhibition.

The "King II (Diptych)" auctioned by Yongle this season is from this exhibition. It is a large-scale work.

Huang Yuxing is a representative figure of Chinese artists born in the 1970s. He uses fluorescent colors to create a mysterious and fantastic world that is dazzling and refreshing.

Since the beginning of his career, water, whirlpools, forests, minerals, crystals and even architecture have always been his favorite themes, reminiscent of the profound influence of expressionist style in art. His delicate landscapes and figures exude bright colors, reflecting his creative experience. Behind these visual impacts, there is also his exploration of the laws of nature, his interpretation of the philosophy of life and his poetic expression of oriental aesthetics.

Chen Ke's "Travels in Huangshan"

This work was originally exhibited in Chen Ke's solo exhibition "Chatting with Dad is Serious Business" held at Yuz Museum in Shanghai at the end of 2018. The exhibition presents Chen Ke's own life trajectory and logic. Through conversations with her father, investigations of past events, and collection and re-creation of old objects, she presents a series of mixed media paintings and installation works to explore themes such as youth, personality, family and aging, and reproduce her close observation of a living being and her awareness of this and that.

Song Kun: The Pure World of Animism - Tide

Song Kun is one of the few artists in the field of contemporary Chinese figurative painting who can be said to have established his own unique painting language.

In the system constructed by Song Kun like a creator, she created a "cyborg body" with mixed identity and shape to emphasize the virtuality and tension contained in biological existence, and expounded the complex relationship between nature and popular culture under the framework of animism. The bodies depicted by Song Kun are attached with a materiality that transcends any conceptualization. The process of flesh and blood formation of these bodies with a sense of illusion is more like a transformation and change of cultural life.

Wang Guangle, Untitled 150614

Untitled 150614, with red as the main color, has a light rhythm that spreads from dark to light and from the center to the surroundings, creating an illusory mysterious atmosphere and a deep and boundless space. This is Wang Guangle's signature "labor" creation method. When facing the work, it also brings people the perception and deep thinking about "time" and "life".

This work is a representative piece of his solo exhibition “Wang Guangle — Six Blocks of Color” held at Beijing Commune in 2015.

Liang Yuanwei《2019.05》

"Flowers" is the starting point of Liang Yuanwei's concept of works, and it keeps changing in different stages of creation as she deepens her understanding of painting language.

"2019.05" is a representative of her recent creations. At this time, her understanding of painting language has entered a new stage. In this work, the flower form is magnified, further "simplified" and "extremely" processed, and the elegant blending colors are changed to extreme pure colors, which enhances the sense of power of the picture.

Qiu Ruixiang: Control

Qiu Ruixiang is an artist who works "inside" the painting, and he develops his imagination based on the formal morphemes and historical mechanisms of traditional painting. After graduating from Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts in 2003, Qiu Ruixiang worked quietly in his studio for the next ten years. It was not until 2014 that his first solo exhibition "Self-View" was held at Platform China, and he has since become a post-80s artist who has received much attention. The work "Control" launched by Yongle this time comes from this representative exhibition.

2. The new generation born after 1985

The rising trend of the new generation represented by Ji Xin, Sun Yidian and Zhang Zipiao in the current art scene cannot be ignored. This season, Yongle also presents their excellent works in this section.

Ji Xin: "Silent Comfort"

Born in 1988, Ji Xin received a master's degree in oil painting from the China Academy of Art in 2013. He has been to Paris, France for art exchanges and is a new generation of Chinese painting artists that have attracted much attention. In September 2021, Ji Xin's fourth solo exhibition "Afternoon of Trance" was held at the Hive Center for Contemporary Art. This batch of works was basically created during the epidemic, with a rare pastoral aesthetic tendency, which is both surprising and reasonable. The "Silent Comfort" auctioned this time is from this exhibition.

Sun Yitian: Patch Monkey

This season's Yongle Spring Auction brought two works by Sun Yitian, of which "Opening" set a new record for the artist at 2.99 million yuan. Another work, "Monkey", was sold at a high price of 1.472 million yuan. As a post-90s artist who has attracted much attention, his works are currently attracting collectors to compete for them at auctions. This season's Yongle Autumn Auction continued to bring Sun Yitian's work "Patch Monkey", which was included in Sun Yitian's first publication "True Treasure Island Sun Yitian". This work was created in the same year as the "Monkey" in the spring auction and is also the same size. This auction will undoubtedly continue to attract the attention of collectors.

Zhang Zipiao "Direction 07"

Zhang Zipiao's painting language has always wandered between abstraction and concreteness. His creative themes have changed from cut fruits to flowers, and then gradually turned to flesh and organs. The enlarged cut surfaces all exude a moist touch and temperature, and vigorous vitality is the main symbol of his paintings.

Zhang Zipiao is one of the representative artists of the post-90s generation. Since his solo exhibition "Moonquake" at the Long Museum in 2022, Zhang Zipiao's works have continued to set high prices at auctions. The "Direction 07" auctioned this time is huge in size and is one of the artist's representative works. Its performance at the auction is worthy of attention.

The New Wave has always been a popular section of Yongle. Artists in this section are not only active in the primary market, but their classic masterpieces have also become a popular part of the secondary market. This season, Yongle's "New Wave" section has introduced many artists who are currently in the rising stage of the market and are worth paying attention to, including Ju Ting, Huang Yishan, Leng Guangmin, Yang Bodu, Gao Ludi and many other artists. Most of the works auctioned this time are from important solo exhibitions in the artists' careers, and their performance in the auction is worth looking forward to.

Ju Ting 《+-042815》

In the just concluded Christie's auction in Shanghai, artist Ju Ting's work "Amber" set a personal auction record of 1.071 million yuan. In this autumn auction, Ju Ting will also have many works on the market, and her performance in the auction this season is worth paying attention to. This time, "+-042815" is a representative work from the "+-" series, which comes from Ju Ting's solo exhibition "Response" held by Star Space in 2015.

Cai Lei, Unfinished House

Cai Lei's "Unfinished House" is regarded as the ultimate expression of personal emotion and reality. It uses the sense of spatial depth and the texture of building materials to create a sense of realism and realism. In this season's spring auction, Yongle's "Unfinished House No. 8" created in 2014 was sold for 345,000 yuan, making it one of the artist's top ten works at auction. This "Unfinished House" is of a similar size and was created by the artist in 2021.

Huang Yishan "Pan Qie-2"

In 2019, Huang Yishan held the "Huang Yishan Solo Exhibition" at the Tang Contemporary Art Center. This exhibition is a very key exhibition in the artist's current career. The artist's current auction record work "Picasso Self-Portrait" comes from this exhibition, which was sold for 1.104 million yuan in the 2022 spring auction. This season's "Pan Qie-2" also comes from this exhibition. Compared with the larger size, it is worth looking forward to its performance in the auction.

Leng Guangmin, "Five Directions of the Screen"

Leng Guangmin's "Five Directions of the Screen" is a work that has been auctioned again. Created in 2014, it is a representative work of the artist's early years. It was sold for 287,500 yuan in the autumn auction of 2017. It is the second highest price for the artist at auction so far.

In the work, the folds formed by the screen open the plane into a three-dimensional surface space, thereby strengthening the dynamic overlap between the inside and the outside. What Leng Guangmin seeks here is "the power between the two dimensions", and makes the whole painting and even the whole space full of confusion. In his own words, everything becomes "broken".

Li Yiwen: Double Screen

Li Yiwen was born in Luoyang, Henan in 1982. He graduated from the Mural Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree in 2006 and a master's degree in 2011. Li Yiwen's artistic creation uses painting as the main medium. His paintings are always permeated with thoughts and interests about time, space and time and space. The experience in memory and the current experience penetrate each other and accumulate to become the source of inspiration and expression. The "Double Screen" auctioned this season was created in 2015. Among the few works of the artist currently auctioned, this work is large-scale and is expected to achieve good results this season.

Yang Bodu, "Sunset 3"

With several important exhibitions held, such as the solo exhibition "Dusk" at MDC Gallery and the solo exhibition "Round Room" at Tang Contemporary Art Center, artist Yang Bodu has become a new representative artist born after 1985 who has attracted much attention from the market. The work "Dusk 3" on auction this time is from the solo exhibition "Yang Bodu: Along the Horizon" held at Tang Contemporary Art Center's Bangkok space. Compared with the artist's current auction record, the work is larger in size and is expected to achieve better results in this season's auction.

Gao Ludi: Dining Table and Hat

Gao Ludi, who was born in 1990, has works with typical characteristics of Generation Z, which form the unique personality and appearance of his works. "Table and Hat" was created in 2014 and is one of his early representative works. It was created in the same year as the artist's current auction record work "Golf". The work was exhibited at the international contemporary art exhibition "Polyphony" held in Guangzhou this year.

Liu Cong "Combination of Rollers"

Liu Cong, born in 1987, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 2015, "Frame - Liu Cong Solo Exhibition" was held at Fangyin Gallery. This exhibition was an important solo exhibition for the artist, exhibiting a series of works with the theme of "objects". For Liu Cong, what is important in his depiction is not the objects themselves, but whether their own shapes or structural combinations can trigger associations with the picture. The "Combination of Rollers" auctioned this time is from this exhibition. It is worth mentioning that this season is also the first time that Liu Cong's works have been auctioned, and the performance is expected.

Xiao Jiang, "Logging"

Xiao Jiang's works are always surrounded by a strong atmosphere, seemingly silent but audible, conveying power in silence. Xiao Jiang, born in 1977, has been active in the primary market before, and his works rarely appear in auctions. This autumn auction will have many works by the artist. The "Logging" brought by Yongle is a large-scale work, which is expected to achieve good results in the auction.

Tang Dayao "Harvest 1"

Tang Dayao was born in Hunan Province in 1984 and graduated from the Fifth Studio of the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. His paintings are based on knowledge and life, and he also draws on the resources of art history to project his own psychological experience and feelings in his works. The "Harvest 1" auctioned this time is a wonderful work from his solo exhibition "Stranger Visitors" held at Platform China in 2016.

Wang Yi, Swamp

Born in 1984, Wang Yi grew up in an art family, and his style exudes a strong classical atmosphere. In recent years, Wang Yi's performance in international and domestic auctions is worth paying attention to. The "Swamp" auctioned this season is a large-scale work of 2 meters long, which is a representative work of his 2019 Liang Project solo exhibition "People Traveling Away:

Zhang Ji "The scenery behind the spring mountain is the witch's lizard man in the bed"

Zhang Ji was born in Beijing, China in 1993. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017 and the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2020. Zhang Ji's paintings revolve around the observation of the subconscious world. His works have attracted much attention in both the primary and secondary markets in the past two years. "The Landscape Behind the Spring Mountain is the Witch's Lizard Man in the Bed" is a large-scale work. It is also a rare masterpiece of the artist this season.

Tan Yongqing "Countless Summer Nights"

Tan Yongqing, born in 1990, graduated from Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts in 2016 with a master's degree. His first solo exhibition "Cunning Moonlight - Tan Yongqing Solo Exhibition" was held at the Hive Center for Contemporary Art in 2019. The "Countless Summer Nights" auctioned this time is a representative work of this exhibition. Most of the artist's works currently on auction are from this exhibition.

Du Jingze "Softness"

Du Jingze is a Chinese-Irish artist born in 1995. In 2021, he started to emerge in his solo exhibition "Du Jingze: Elsewhere" held at the Hive Center for Contemporary Art, becoming a post-95 artist who has attracted much attention.

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