Not long ago, on February 13, 2022, the Liuhe District People's Court of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, held a public auction of two paintings of Sun Xiaoyun's calligraphy on the Ali auction platform, with a starting price of 28,000 yuan, equivalent to 30% off the appraisal price. 20 buyers competed, and finally sold for 159,500 yuan, the number of words is not much, almost "a word is a thousand gold". It is 469.64% higher than the starting price, and the highest transaction price of Sun Xiaoyun's calligraphy judicial auction.
Sun Xiaoyun is a master of Chinese calligraphy and was elected president of the Chinese Calligraphers Association in January last year, the first female president of the department.
The transaction price of the two calligraphies is equivalent to about 18,800 yuan per square foot
This time, the court held a public auction of two pieces of Sun Xiaoyun's calligraphy (136.5 x 34.5 centimeters) numbered 7, and according to the specifications, the two calligraphy paintings were about 4.24 square feet each. The contents are "Houde Carrier Peng Shu Sun Xiaoyun" (Reporter's Note: Wu Shu is 2018); the other is Zhu Xi's poem, which is "Half An Acre of Fang Tang A Jian Open Sky Light Cloud Shadow Wandering Together Ask the Canal That Is Clear as Promised to Have a Source of Living Water Zhu Xiguan Book Has a Feeling sun Xiaoyun".
The starting price is a total of 28,000 yuan, and the appraisal price is 40,000 yuan, which is equivalent to 30% off the appraisal price, the deposit is 2800 yuan, and the markup is 500 yuan. The auction began at 10:00 a.m. on February 12, and the final buyer, Zhu Bin, won it for 159,500 yuan, which was 469.64% higher than the starting price, and the transaction price was equivalent to about 18,800 yuan per square foot.
According to the announcement, the two pieces of calligraphy were stored in the Liuhe District People's Court of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, and were seized by the court according to law, and explained that "the defects were inspected by the buyer himself." The "flaws" mentioned here, from a professional point of view, also include the horizontal performance of the work.
In fact, on February 7 this year, the court also auctioned a piece of Sun Xiaoyun's calligraphy "Flying Youth", with a specification of 104x31 centimeters, folded contract 2.9 square feet, the model is "Sun Xiaoyun Inscription", printed in white "Sun Xiaoyun Seal". The owner of the lot is Xia **, and the industry believes that it should be an auction item in the same case.
The calligraphy started at 10,500 yuan, equivalent to a 30% discount of the market price of 15,000 yuan, each time the price increase was 150 yuan, 6 buyers each paid a deposit of 1,050 yuan to register for admission, after 132 bids, of which 121 were delayed, and finally sold for 30,100 yuan, bought for the natural person Zhu Qinglin, the calligraphy is equivalent to 10,000 yuan per square foot.
Linyun Capital He Qing pointed out that judicial auctions are usually tempting for the sake of rapid realization, but "buyers should also pay attention to flaws."