At the podium - two Chinese and one American, and the great Spaniard for the first time in 21 years was not included in the top three

After last year's leading art market in the world was Chinese, it is not surprising that in the general ranking of artists by auction turnover of money the first two lines occupy the artists come from the Middle Kingdom.

And therefore we say "goodbye" by Pablo Picasso - an artist who since 1989 has become 17 times the rating leader in auction turnover of money, and for the past 14 years he lost the first position only once. The overthrow of the Spanish throne, the titanium was really spectacular, as in the annual auction proceeds went around it, not only of Qi Baishi and Zhang Datsyan, and Andy Warhol. For the first time in 21 years Pablo Picasso was not included in the top three.

past 2011 certainly strengthened the Chinese supremacy in the art market: the share of the Middle Kingdom for more than 40 percent of global turnover of the auction, and 6 of 10 best-selling artists in the world - the Chinese. China has become the undisputed leader in the sale of art.

Datsyan Zhang (Zhang Daqian) - $ 550 million

It seems that the market works in this Chinese modernist knows only one way - up: after sverhuspeshnogo 2010 (total auction revenue from the sale of works Datsyanya Zhang was 314 million dollars, 58 works went under the hammer more million) in 2011 and became a triumph for the artist at all : he won first place in the overall rankings on the profitability of the authors. Sold Zhang Datsyanya for the year by as much as $ 550 million, the Chinese auction houses have made it an absolute champion ranking artists by auction turnover - no one had ever reached such heights.

In 2011, only bids appeared in 1361, Zhang Datsyanya lot - a record number (20 per cent more than in 2010), 233 remained unsold work (20 percent), sold 95 percent of the work had gone above the lower estimate.

more 111 works, Zhang Datsyanya crossed the threshold of $ 1 million - a seven-digit number of the results did not reach any other artist in 2011. In addition, Zhang Datsyan updated and your personal record: 1947 picture "The lotus flower and mandarin ducks," exhibited in 1957 in France, Hong Kong Sotheby's auction in 2011 paid 170 million HK dollars (21.8 million dollars) - ten times the lower estimate. This amount was also the highest priced auction in the history of trading in Hong Kong.

Five of the ten best results of Zhang Datsyanya were installed last year, the price index of the artist grew by 50 percent (in From 2005 to 2010 the index rose three-fold). Prior to 2005, 90 percent of the work, Zhang Datsyanya went under the hammer in the range of 100 thousand dollars from 2005 to such prices were sold only 57 percent of the work, and only 1.9 percent of Chinese modernist works in 2011 were available cheaper 5000 dollars. < /p>

a negligible part of the body works, Zhang Datsyanya not sold in Asia, only four works sold in New York, two - in Paris. All six works exceeded the estimate. But even with the excellent results of Datsyanya sold in the West, are responsible for only 0.03 per cent of its annual auction revenue.

Qi Baishi (Qi Baishi) - 510 million dollars < /strong>