Courtesy Sotheby's

Fu Baoshi, a 1943 hanging scroll depicting a drunken monk

July/August 2009 Auction Reviews

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Fu Baoshi In Brief: Freeman’s

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HONG KONG—Top lot: A 1943 hanging scroll depicting a drunken monk by Fu Baoshi brought $HK6,260,000 ($3 million). Overall, the auction yielded exceptional sell-through rates of 95.5 percent by value and nearly 90 percent by lot.

"In Brief: Sotheby's" originally appeared in the July/August 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's July/August 2009 Table of Contents.