Sotheby's Hong Kong's first auction of "McDougal" is estimated at about HK$1 million

Hong Kong, January 13 (China News Service) -- The "Mai Mark Mai Du" series of works documenting hong Kong's big and small interesting events has long become Hong Kong's iconic pop culture and collective memory. Sotheby's Hong Kong launched the "McDoubtson Sotheby's" online auction for the first time, and held a media preview on the 13th, presenting 47 works, including 2 classic works launched in the form of NFTs (non-homogeneous tokens).

Since the 1980s, the series of works "Mai Mark Mai Du" has recorded the stories of Hong Kong people large and small, and conveys the ordinary and simple taste of life. The optimistic persistence in facing life behind the story has accompanied and inspired generations of people, become people's collective childhood memories, and even become a symbol of Hong Kong's local pop culture.

For the first time, Sotheby's Hong Kong cooperated with Mr. and Mrs. Xie Liwen and Mak Jiabi, authors of the "Mai Du" series, presenting a total of 47 works in the "Mai Mark Mai Du" series, with a total valuation of about HK$1 million. The online auction will take place from January 14 to 25.

Huang Xiaojun, an expert at Sotheby's Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Department in Hong Kong, said in an interview with reporters that the auction has both the original comic manuscript and the reinterpretation of classic stories in a new art form, such as "Fish Egg Thick", which was originally an animated plot, and Mai Jiabi used acrylic paints that he did not commonly use to recreate the classic scene on the canvas, creating 8 enlarged versions of the same theme.

On the other side of the exhibition hall are two blockbusters from this online auction, which launched the digital three-dimensional animation "The Prince of Pineapple Oil" and "Wheat Field Flower Kindergarten School Song" in the popular NFT form.

Huang Xiaojun introduced that "Wheat Field Flower Kindergarten School Song" is the first set of shots of the first episode of the "Mai Du" series of works made into animation by the manga in 1997, and it is also the first time that these comic characters "speak out". The NFT work selects fragments of the school song sung by Mai Du and his classmates, and processes them with stereoscopic technology to make it appear in 3D. "The song is sung in Cantonese, and although a group of children sing it in a bad voice, it is because of this that it is more loved by the audience."

At present, the valuation of the two NFT works has not yet been announced. However, Huang Xiaojun said that this online auction is the first time that Sotheby's has cooperated with the two authors of the "McDouble" series of works, and this is also the first auction of "McDougall" works, so in order to encourage the audience to participate enthusiastically, the auction valuation is more attractive, and the audience expects to see the works they like. (End)

Source: China News Network