Record price for Japanese print at London auction
Published November 8th, 2007
The print made 288,500 pounds at Christie’s auction house in London, a world record.
“Pink Fuji,” or Gaifu Kaisei, by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was among over 450 items sold from two collections of Japanese art and design, which fetched more than 2.5 million pounds.
Mark Hinton, head of Japanese Art and Design at Christie’s, said the sale demonstrated the strength of the Japanese print market, while demand for items such as exceptional swords was also impressive.
“Christie’s international Japanese Art team has seen renewed vigour for Japanese Art in 2007, with three world auction records set in London and the first lot to sell for over 1 million dollars in New York in the last decade.
“It is very pleasing to see the top two lots of today’s sale bought by Japanese,” he said.
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