It's Asia Week in New York, and Sotheby's set a record today for the highest price ever paid for a piece of classical Chinese art. This is not a genre I know much about, except that I find the art extremely appealing in its simplicity. The estimate for the record-setting work, Two Mynas on a Rock, painted in 1692 by Bada Shanren, was $400,000-600,000. The final hammer price? $2.994 million. It would be interesting to know if it was bought by a Chinese or American collector or dealer.
