The most expensive Chinese art in 2020 is also the most expensive ancient painting and calligraphy in the world.

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On the evening of October 18, 2020, Beijing Poly auctioned ancient paintings and calligraphy. Wu Bin's masterpiece "ten face Lingbi scroll" for Mi Wanzhong sold for 512.9 million yuan, making it the most expensive Chinese art in 2020 and the most expensive ancient painting and calligraphy in the world. The painter Wu Bin was born in the late Ming Dynasty (about 370 years ago). The painting scroll of ten faces of Lingbi is one of the important works created by Wu Bin for his friend Mi Wanzhong. It depicts the rare and rare stones collected by Mi Wanzhong, a "hermit of shiyin'an". Ten pictures are drawn. Each picture depicts different sides of the stone in real size. According to reports, the work has many foreign Museum exhibition records, up to 18 important publications and 12 ancient authoritative descriptions. According to public information, in 1989, "ten faces of Lingbi scroll" appeared in Sotheby's auction in New York, and sold at a high price of US $1.21 million, which became the first time that Sotheby's broke the transaction record of Chinese painting and calligraphy exceeding one million US dollars. Sorry, there are ten. I can only upload one.