Oil painting "Chairman Mao's full-length portrait" was auctioned for RMB 20.16 million (photo)

by whdxhw on 2009-06-27 17:44:07

The crowd, which had been calm for 47 rounds, began to get restless. These more than 200 auction participants, who appeared mysterious and taciturn, started murmuring after the auctioneer announced a starting price of 13 million yuan for Jin Shangyi's oil painting "Chairman Mao's Full-length Portrait." The auctioneer then paused his rapid-fire speech appropriately, took a sip of tea, and slowly introduced...