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Chinese Painter Cui Sets Record With $30 Million Landscape Work
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An eight-panel series of paintings by Cui Ruzhuo sold for HK$236 million ($30 million) at Poly Auction Hong Kong, setting an auction record for a living Asian artist.
“The Grand Snowing Mountainous Jiangnan Landscape,” completed in 2013, sold on April 7 and broke the previous record of HK$185 million also set by Cui at Poly Hong Kong in April 2014, the auction house said in a press release.