Liang-Lin Chen, Christie’s Chinese ceramics and works of art senior specialist and head of sale makes her auctioneering debut for evening sale in Hong Kong on 26 May.
But such is the new post-pandemic reality, where major evening sales are now a mix of IRL and virtual thanks to the technology the major auction houses have fully adopted over the past two or so years, to be able to hold their seasonal sales in the face of sporadic lockdowns. The sale followed a somewhat similar pattern as was seen at the recent New York auctions where bidding took off and was often frothy for work by younger up-and-coming artists at more moderate price levels. This was reflected in the 11 new auction records notched for artists such as Hernan Bas and Zhang Enli, as well as Scott Kahn, Firenze Lai, Ayako Rokkaku, and Rhee Seundja.