Through inventory, we selected more than 20 well-known Chinese art collectors. Their collection experience and collection taste have promoted the development of the Chinese art market, and in a sense may also affect the future development direction of China's art and cultural industry.
At present, China's emerging cultural and art market is in the period of alternating new and old collectors and taking over the baton. The transformation of old collectors, the styles of the new generation, rich second generation, and Tibetan second generation collectors, all point to the international trend of more diversified characters and styles.
Compared with the local tyrants who buy houses and planes for hundreds of millions of yuan, those who spend hundreds of millions of yuan to buy small paintings and porcelain bottles are really rich. Top collectors are often frequent visitors on the rich list, many of which are famous big shots from the business and art industries.
In May and August this year, institutions ranked the annual collectors and celebrities respectively.
The top ten collectors of the first version
1, Liu Luanxiong - spending billions of gold without frowning
Liu Luanxiong, graduated in 1974 and returned to Hong Kong to join his family's ceiling fan manufacturing business, and was nicknamed "Fan Liu". Liu Luanxiong has a sharp vision and a very courageous spirit. He galloped in the Hong Kong stock market as a sniper and has risen rapidly since 1985. It has now developed into a comprehensive large group with 4 listed companies. After following the total market value of the top ten consortiums, it has become a candidate chaebol in Hong Kong, and its business has expanded to
real estate, media, construction and manufacturing industries. Before the 2007 financial crisis broke out, he ranked 458th on the Forbes Global Rich List with $2.1 billion in wealth. In 2014, Liu Luanxiong ranked sixth on the 2014 Forbes Hong Kong Rich List with a net worth of US$9.7 billion.
Liu Luanxiong has been in the collection for nearly thirty years. He has a wide range of interests and has been involved in many
art categories such as Chinese painting, impressionism, contemporary art, porcelain, etc. In the last two years, his funds for artworks, especially contemporary art collections have soared. Last year, he spent
1, 7.376 million US dollars (about 135.5 million Hong Kong dollars) to acquire Andy Warhol's silkscreen-printed "Portrait of Mao Zedong" at Christie's in New York, setting a world transaction record for Andy Warhol. In 2007, Liu Luanxiong won Gauguin's masterpiece "Morning" for US$39,241,000 (about HK$310 million), winning the first place in the Sotheby's Impressionism and Contemporary Art Night Market auction in New York. At present, it is not uncommon for Chinese collectors to bid in world-class auction markets, but there are very few Chinese collectors like Liu Luanxiong who are generous and spend billions of gold. He is known as the "stock sniper" and the "Causeway Bay King". His powerful Chinese Real Estate Group provides strong financial support for him to enter the collection.
2. Zhang Zongxian - a special liking for Chinese cultural relics
Zhang Zongxian Chinese art collector, he spent decades to spare no effort to collect Chinese porcelain and Chinese calligraphy and paintings around the world, and is widely respected in the world cultural relics collection circle. He is the main promoter of Sotheby's and Christie's, two major international auction companies, to expand their markets in Hong Kong. At the same time, he also devoted a lot of energy and financial resources to several major art auction companies in Beijing and Shanghai.
Zhang Zongxian has a special liking for Chinese cultural relics, and his contribution to the development and development of the mainland cultural relics and art auction market can be said to be huge.
In 1994, China Guardian held its first auction. The number one lot was Wu Xizeng's "Fishing Fun Picture", with a base price of 7,000 yuan.
Zhang Zongxian, holding a number one license plate, stood up and said, "Today is the first auction of Jiade. I paid 18,000 yuan, I will send it in one auction!" The scene was immediately active, and Zhang Zongxian increased the price one after another, 28,000 yuan and 38,000 yuan until it increased to 88,000 yuan. The appraisal master Mr. Xu Bangda went on stage to hit the first hammer, and Zhang Zongxian won the first prize; in 1994, the first auction of Beijing Hanhai, Zhang Zongxian held the number one license plate again, took out 16 million yuan in one breath, and took 50% of the total auction transaction volume of 32 million yuan. As a well-known collector, Zhang Zongxian often spends millions to buy his favorite masterpieces, which always gives the outside world a powerful aura.
3. Zhai Jianmin - Hong Kong antique dealer
Zhai Jianmin, Hong Kong Yongbao Zhaizhai, organizer of Asia International Art and Antiques Exhibition (AIAA2006).Over the past 40 years, we have participated in antique auctions and exhibitions held in Europe, America and Asia regularly, thereby obtaining the latest trends and valuation information. On October 23, 2005, at the Sotheby's autumn auction in Hong Kong, Zhai Jianmin bought a double-eared bottle of the enamel "Gu Yuexuan" written in the poem "Gu Yuexuan" made by Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty for HK$115.48 million, creating the second highest price for the auction of Chinese cultural relics and artworks.
4, Liu Yiqian - bought it to open a library
Liu Yiqian has been calling for the wind and rain in the investment market in recent years: in 2009, he threw more than 800 million yuan in the Chinese art auction market; later, he was pushed to the forefront of "real posts and fake posts" because he spent 50 million yuan to buy Su Shi's "Kongfu Posts"; then he became very popular because he spent
.25 billion yuan on the Doucai Chicken Cup in Chenghua, Ming. Controversy suddenly arose.
Shanghai Long Art Museum (West Bank Museum)
For more people are interested in art but "can't understand" some art works, Liu Yiqian believes: "In fact, I still have the trouble of not understanding this kind of unrecognizable things now. I have been struggling with the authenticity of many art works for 20 years, but this problem can also be solved simplifiedly. In the art market, my advantage is that I have funds, and my weakness is that I have no professional vision, so as long as I play my advantages and buy expensive collections, I will be half successful."
5, Guo Qingxiang - often buy heavyweight lots
0 Guo Qingxiang, a famous collector, head of the art department of Dalian Wanda Group, and founder of Yuebaozhai, a well-known art collection agency.
Since entering the art collection market in the early 1990s, Guo Qingxiang has been out of control. He is indispensable in many cultural relics and art auctions held by Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and other places. The high-priced transactions of some heavyweight lots are closely related to his participation, such as Bada Shanren's "The Alone Bird Picture", Fu Baoshi's "The Second Hunan Picture", "The Tiger and Dragon Pan are Better to the Past", Li Keran's "The Red Mountains" and
"Jinggangshan", etc. These great achievements have also written a record of the history of the development of the Chinese calligraphy and painting market.
6, Taiwanese businessman Huang Chongren - Synchronous business collection
Huang Chongren, chairman of Taiwan Lijing Group, has been selected into the top 200 global economic collectors many times. He came from a scholarly family and studied under famous Taiwanese painters such as Liao Jichun and Guo Xuehu.
htmlFor more than 0 years, while running a business, Huang Chongren has been committed to collecting artworks. He often said that his greatest wish is to be able to "return life to art" after the age of 60, and specialize in art collection, with the main collection of Chinese porcelain, impressionism and modern paintings.7, Taiwanese businessman Chen Taiming - set the second highest price record in auctions
Chen Taiming, born in 1956, is one of the top ten wealthy businessmen in Taiwan, chairman of Guoju Group, and likes to collect famous paintings.
Chen Taiming once spent 33 million US dollars to buy the second highest price in the auction at Sotheby's fall contemporary art auction in New York, and was a self-portrait of Francis Bacon, the world's top artist. The collection focuses on modern and contemporary art from the West and China and Chinese imperial porcelain.
8, Yang Bin——Collection and dating both
Yang Bin, currently the chairman of Beijing DashiBan Automobile Sales Co., Ltd., is engaged in the automobile distribution industry. In 2000, he began to collect contemporary Chinese art works and began to participate in the collection of contemporary Western art works since 2006. It now has a collection of outstanding works by top contemporary artists, and its collection range covers oil paintings, sculptures, photos, installations, etc.
Yang Bin believes that through collecting contemporary art, I have made many like-minded friends, and my interactions and exchanges with them have brought me infinite happiness, making my mentality much younger. Yang Bin's main collection is Chinese contemporary art since the 1980s, but in his frequently updated collection list, the names of famous Western artists such as Anne Julie and Loxi Paine can also be seen. In the main context list, whether it is Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Guangyi, Zeng Fanzhi, Liu Xiaodong, Ye Yongqing, Liu Wei, Xia Xiaowan, Chen Yifei and Chen Yanning, they are all familiar customers of Yang Bin's nearly a thousand works of art.When promoting the development of art became one of Yang Bin's careers, he quickly established Aye Gallery and East Station Gallery in an important location in Beijing urban area.
9. Shao Zhong - "Art Promoter"
Publisher Shao Zhong, in addition to the contemporary art collection, his special identity is more like a "Art Promoter". In 2008, Shao Zhong established the Shao Zhong Foundation, which is one of the few foundations in China that currently supports cultural projects. In addition to the first to establish the bilingual magazine "Art World" that introduces Chinese contemporary art, his Modern Communication Group has collaborated with TheArt Newspaper "Art News/Chinese Edition" in March 2013. In addition, Modern Communication Group has cooperated closely with many art activities such as the Loud Exhibition and the Shenzhen Hong Kong City/Architecture Biennale.
Shao Zhong is a person who pays great attention to the details of life, and his taste for art has spread inside and outside the entire modern communication office.
10, Qiao Zhibing - I bought a good friend for a thousand gold
Qiao Zhibing, chairman of Beijing Wuzhou Fengqing Entertainment Culture Co., Ltd., and a contemporary art collector.
Qiao Zhibing did not disclose the number of collections, and only gave a lower limit of "more than 100 pieces". In addition to the most common "big guys" in contemporary art, Qiao Zhibin, who once went to the Department of Art Management of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, seems to be more professional and academic in the collection. For example, he will choose Zhang Enli, Yang Fudong, Wuding Company, Anthony Germre, Olaville Eriasson, and will also collect many new media works by young artists. In 2012, he became a sponsor of Ullens, and other sponsors include collectors and entrepreneurs such as Yang Bin, Yan Qing, and Wan Jie.
The second version includes nine collectors
1, Chen Dongsheng - a big-name collector
In 2018, the "auction empire" China Guardian Auction, founded by Chen Dongsheng, celebrated its 25th anniversary. It was also in 2018 that Qingmei Yaji, the largest collection team of Chinese people so far, announced that Chen Dongsheng has become an official member of Qingmei Yaji and the first member in the mainland.
As a big shot in the auction collection industry, Chen Dongsheng’s collector’s background is undoubtedly. One of the big money was to donate hundreds of millions of yuan to collect it to his alma mater, Wuhan University, and to establish the Wanlin Art Museum after his father Chen Wanli.
Another big investment is the future Taikang Art Museum. After 15 years of Taikang Art Space operation, Taikang Space's work focus is shifting to Taikang Art Museum in 2019. In the future, a Chinese MoMA is likely to be added to the territory of private art museums.
2, Qiao Zhibing (omitted)
3, Li Lin (Jiangnan Buyi) - Don’t forget to collect it by making money
70 Li Lin, born in Jiangnan Buyi, has created the fashion kingdom of Jiangnan Buyi, with more than 900 JNBYs distributed in several continents. However, she does not consider herself a "fashion expert" and in fact her fashion career has always benefited from art.
Wang Bing, who has been engaged in the securities investment industry for 20 years, founded Dingtian Asset Management Co., Ltd. in 2000. He has served as a director of many companies such as TCL, Huiyuan, and Wantong. Wang Bing not only collects important paintings, sculptures, installations and image works by many contemporary Chinese artists, but also continues to pay close attention to emerging young artists.
The New Century Contemporary Art Foundation (NCAF) jointly initiated by Wang Bing and Xue Bing provides funding for artists, curators, scholars and institutions, carry out independent research projects and publishing work, and promotes the development of contemporary art in China. In 2018, it also supported 12 related activities such as artistic creation, exhibitions, publishing and lectures, as well as 7 non-profit spaces.
4, "Brother Hat" Li Li (Brother Feng Huazhen) - Buy and buy
, who started from the entertainment, real estate and finance industries, began to enter the art collection market in 2006. After buying and buying thrillingly, he soon made a world in the modern and modern calligraphy and painting collection field, and people in the circle gave the title "Brother Hat".
In the 2011 autumn auction, he won the 1929 "Avatamsaka Collection of Three Hundreds" by Master Hongyi for 60.95 million yuan; in the 2012 spring auction, he purchased Fu Baoshi's largest work in the King Kongpo period "Du Fu's Nine Days Blue Genghui Drinking Poetry Picture".Li Li not only collected many works of famous modern artists, but also began to pay attention to Huang Binhong's works, which were undervalued with a unique vision. He has become the number one collector of Huang Binhong's works in China.
Fu Baoshi's "Du Fu's Nine Days Blue Farming Meeting Poetry Picture"
Turning to the behind-the-scenes Brother Mao established the "Biography of Fenghua Zhen". On this platform, new and old collectors recommend the most reliable good products in each auction house, with important auctions spread across Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. By watching previews by experts, it analyzes and judges important items. Its humorous and sharp comment style is widely popular among fans, which has led and influenced some entrepreneurs to join the art collection team and become a rich conveyor in the art market.
5. Wang Jianlin (Wanda Group) - Collection Ken Investment
Wanda Group's head Wang Jianlin is a regular on the collector list. In the 1980s and 1990s, Wang Jianlin was a little famous in the collection industry, so he dared to buy Fu Baoshi's representative work "Dragon Pan Tiger Ju" with an installment of 8 million yuan.
In 1997, after Wang Jianlin visited Wu Guanzhong for the first time, he began to spend a lot of money and collected almost all the works of Wu Guanzhong who were wandering abroad. He once said half-jokingly that the reason why he gave up the great opportunities and stable futures in the army and the government and chose to venture into real estate was because he had to have money to collect and afford the calligraphy and paintings he loved.
Picasso's "Two Kids"
In 2014, Wanda Group purchased Picasso's famous painting "Two Kids" for RMB 172 million at the Christie's nightclub auction in New York, opening the curtain for the international collection of Chinese entrepreneurs.
Wanda rented a insurance warehouse of several hundred square meters in the bank to store artworks, and Wang Jianlin is also building the Dalian Wanda Art Museum. Today, Wanda's collection history has been more than 20 years. Its collections are of great quantity, high quality and complete categories, and are almost unmatched in domestic enterprises.
6, Liu Yiqian Wang Wei (Xinliyi Investment) (omitted)
7, Zhang Guiping (Suning Group) - Collection of large-scale
Yuan generation painter Ren Renfa's "Five Kings Drunk Returning Picture" was sold at a price of more than 300 million yuan, which excited the long-sluggish Chinese art market in 2016. The one who took the prize was Zhang Guiping, the brother of Zhang Jindong, the boss of Suning Group. This low-key "hidden wealth" in the art market has also attracted social attention.
Ren Renfa "Five Kings Drunk Return"
Zhang Guiping has a special liking for Chinese traditional culture and is a loyal and focused collector. The Suning Museum he founded also contains important Chinese artworks, among which the nearly 3,000 collections contain works of representative figures from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, and modern times.
There are many sky-high-priced items from auctions in Suning Museum, such as the "Wild Bamboo Picture" which sets the auction record in Wuzhen, Wang Shigu's "Imitation of Song and Yuan Landscapes" by Wang Shigu, the "Twilight Snow Picture of the Villa" by Xia Gui's auction record, Yuan Jiang's "Penglai Fairyland", the "Princess Pu Lilun Picture" by Zhao Yong, Zhang Daqian's "Xizhi's Picture of Change of Goose" and Fu Baoshi's "Picture of Zheng Zhuanggong's See Mother" by Zheng.
8. Xu Jiankang (Baolong Real Estate) - obsessed with calligraphy and painting art
real estate tycoon Xu Jiankang was born in a scholarly family in Fujian. He was influenced by the strong traditional cultural atmosphere of his family. Xu Jiankang later became obsessed with the collection of Chinese calligraphy and painting art. After winning the sky-high price of Huang Zhou's "Joyful Grassland", Xu Jiankang, the "heldor" of Baolong Group, also began to surface.
Shanghai Baolong Art Museum
From Qi Baishi's "A Sight at the End of the World - Landscape Album", to Cai Guoqiang's gunpowder masterpieces "The Bund without Us" and "The Ladder", as well as the large collection of artworks of former Vice Premier Gu Mu... all made Xu Jiankang and Baolong Group famous in the art collection industry.
He then founded the Baolong Art Museum in Shanghai. During the opening exhibition, the public was able to see the exquisite true appearances of many modern and contemporary calligraphy and painting masters collected by his family. From galleries, art centers, art academies to art galleries, art collections have also contributed to Xu Jian’s huge investment in the cultural and artistic chain of Baolong Group.
9. Zheng Zhigang (New World Development) - The collection dream of the three generations of wealthy generations
As the third generation successor of the Zheng family, Zheng Zhigang is the founder of Chow Tai Fook (Holding) Co., Ltd., the eldest grandson of Cheng Yutong, the top ten Chinese tycoons in the world, and the eldest son of Zheng Jiachun. He is the current executive vice chairman of New World Development Co., Ltd.
Although his father Zheng Jiachun is also a wealthy collector, compared to a large amount of art collections, what attracts more attention is his son Zheng Zhigang's innovation in promoting contemporary art.
Wuhan K11 Art Village
In 2010, Zheng Zhigang founded the K11 Art Foundation, launched the Wuhan K11 Art Village, and set up a local artist resident and artist exchange project.
Internationally, the Foundation cooperates with various art galleries and the London Center for Contemporary Art (ICA), the Palace of Tokyo in Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to showcase the new Chinese art, while also bringing the voices of the younger generation to the global art stage.
At the beginning of 2017, an institution named the "Top Ten Collectors of China in 2016"
1. Liu Yiqian, Chairman of Xinliyi Group (omitted) 2. Wang Jianlin, Chairman of Wanda Group (omitted)
3. Chen Dongsheng, Chairman of Taikang Group and Founder of Jiade Auction. (Omitted)
4. Xu Jiayin - Collection and spend huge sums of money
Xu Jiayin, chairman of the board of directors of Evergrande Group, bought the Lingnan School’s representative work "Smiling in Spring Breeze" for a sky-high price of 11.2 million yuan in 2010.
At the 2011 Spring Festival auction, he made another move and bought "The Wind Comes the Scent of the Far", "The East Wind is Rich and the Fragrance" and "Four Screens of Flowers and Birds" for 1,281 yuan.
5. Wang Zhongjun - If you like it, buy
Wang Zhongjun, the executive president of Huayi Brothers Media Group. Its oil painting collection focuses on contemporary masters such as Chen Yifei, Yidong and Yuan Zhiyang, while most of the bronze sculptures are purchased from Europe.
6. Dai Zhikang - the investment of rich people
Zhengda Group Chairman Dai Zhikang loves ancient and modern calligraphy and painting. "Wen Zhengming Mountain Sailor Hand Scroll (Part )", Xu Beihong's "Lion Waking Picture", Li Keran's "Shaoshan", to the 64-page set of Qianlong's calligraphy, and calligraphy and painting works by Huang Daozhou, Dong Qichang, Wang Yuanqi and Ren Bonian. The total value of Chinese classical calligraphy and paintings in the Himalaya Art Museum exceeds 1 billion yuan. (It is sad that on August 29, 2019, Dai Zhikang, the legal representative of Zhengda Group, surrendered to the police for involving illegal fundraising cases. It is said that 200 million yuan of fundraising funds cannot be repaid. We don’t understand. Can’t he mortgage loans be made by his Himalaya Art Museum and the total value of Chinese classical calligraphy and paintings in his collection exceed 1 billion yuan?)
7, Sun Guangxin - Zhongyi Modern and Modern Calligraphy and Painting
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, Guanghui Group Chairman Sun Guangxin, mainly collects modern and modern calligraphy and painting. In 2012, he won Li Keran's "Shaoshan" for 124.2 million yuan in the Jiade Spring Auction. In 2011, Bao Mingshan won "Jiuzhou Nothing to Be Practice" for 266.8 million yuan, setting the highest record for the auction of Xu Beihong's paintings.
8, Shi Yuzhu - Like oil paintings and beauty pictures
Giant Network Chairman Shi Yuzhu. I love to collect oil paintings, and their oil paintings mainly focus on the theme of "beauty pictures".
9. Jack Ma - Love Contemporary Art
Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma. Love collecting contemporary art. However, both Wang Jianlin and Dai Zhikang kept a certain distance from Chinese contemporary art.
10, Zhang Lan - a strong woman's big money
South Beauty Chairman Zhang Lan bought Liu Xiaodong's oil painting "New Three Gorges Immigration" for RMB 22 million in 2007, and bought Fang Lijun's work "1997.1) for RMB 10.304 million. She is still the runner-up in the domestic auction price of Fang Liyue's works. South Beauty is no longer in glory, but Zhang Lan’s investment courage is amazing!
