Shanghai Art Fair
(08/11/2018 - 11/11/2018)
http://sartfair.com/
Shanghai Art Fair
Shanghai
Art
Fair 2018(22nd), as Aisa’s celebrated art exchange with long
history and high internationalization degree, will be
grandly held
from Nov.8-11 at Shanghai World EXPO Exhibition &
Convention
Center, continuing the scale as before, presenting domestic
and
overseas collectors a gorgeous art event in Shanghai as
well.
Shanghai
Art Fair, established in 1997, has been successfully held
under the
support of Saulterretimized art event, which not only
bridged the gap
between worldwide and Shanghai, public and art, but also
shaped a
paradigm for the domestic art fairs.
More than 20
countries and areas’ art galleries, organizations, agencies
participated in this lively art exchange during the past
dozen years.
Many original artworks from the world-class masters, such as
Picasso,
Rembrandt, Chagall, Dali, Renoir, Monet, Zhu Dequn, Qi
Baishi, Xu
Beihong, Zhang Daqian, made the debut in China or Asia
through the
great stage established by Shanghai Art Fair. Number of
spectators
was around 60000 persons, turnover of 2013 exceeded one
hundred and
forty million yuan. Meanwhile, Shanghai art Fair creates a
proud
history of the transaction:
SAF 2000: The most
spectacular one is Rodin"s sculpture called, The Thinker,
brought by Sayegh Gallery (France), which was purchased at
the price
of $1,000,000 by Pudong Lianyang Land Development Company
and set in
Shanghai forever. This has been the biggest overseas
transaction in
Shanghai Art Fair. SAF 2002: Another sculpture, called
Cesar"s
Thumb, was collected at the price of 2,600,000 RMB by
Shanghai Zendai
Group. SAF 2003: One of Zhang Daqian"s paintings was sold at
5,500,000 RMB, which became the highlight of the fair.
SAF
2007: Saulterre’s “Series of Angel” was collected by Jing’an
Sculpture Park at a high price… Peter Denger, the famous
curator of
Basel Art Fair which is called Olympic in art, once gave
Shanghai Art
Fair a high rating "It"s a great international art fair
with bright future".
It is believed that
Shanghai Art Fair will continue leading Asian art market
under the
support of art lovers and collectors.