Zeng Xiaojun Chinese Scroll Painting of Huangshan, ca. 1985
Zeng Xiaojun Chinese Scroll Painting of Huangshan, ca. 1985
VALUE (2017) | $50,000 Retail – $70,000 Retail
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW APPRAISAL
On this episode of Antiques Roadshow Lark E. Mason appraised a Zeng Xiaojun Chinese Scroll Painting of Huangshan, ca. 1985.
APPRAISED VALUE (2017) | $50,000 Retail – $70,000 Retail
This appraisal was featured in Orlando, Hour 2 (#2117) and was filmed in Orlando, FL on June 18, 2016.
APPRAISAL TRANSCRIPT
GUEST:
My family is friends of the brother of the artist. And we've actually traveled with our friend Zeng Xiaojun to visit his brother in Beijing and spent a month there, it was wonderful. We came back, and our friend gave us a choice of two different scrolls from his brother. I chose this one because this is Yellow Mountain, a sacred mountain, Huangshan, and that's one of the places we went to visit when we were in China.
APPRAISER:
How wonderful. So you've got a great image of this famous mountain peak, very compelling. Xiaojun is considered one of the top painters in China today.
GUEST:
Yes.
APPRAISER:
Now, most of his market is in the retail sector, in the gallery sector, not the resale auction market.
GUEST:
Right, right.
APPRAISER:
So there's relatively few works of his coming up at auction because he's my age.
GUEST:
He's young.
APPRAISER:
Xiaojun and I were born roughly at the same period of time-- thank you for saying I'm young. And he's still active and painting, very much so. But his works sell for a pretty good amount of money. And he does these large-scale works that sell for large amounts of money.
GUEST:
Yes, right.
APPRAISER:
But with all that in mind, and knowing who he is, and how many people like his works, I think this has got to be in the $50,000 to $70,000 range.
GUEST:
Wow... (laughing) That's much more than I thought it would be.
APPRAISER:
I think that's got to be right in there where it would be.
GUEST:
I was going to probably not faint if you said $15,000 or $20,000, but wow.