Ho Ka Ying's works have consistently ranked very high in the auction records of contemporary art. And many of the single ** are more than one million, and even a few are more than 10 million. Collating some of his works that have been sold at auction. Let's discuss and analyze his works together, which can also give some reference to many painters.
Highest auction record: 13.8 million.
There are more than 10 million, not just one, but several.
* So high that many people say it is a record of spending money. But his works can be directly monetized by any gallery, which is a real hard currency, and each work can be directly traded in the auction market (secondary market). Everyone in the industry knows that if there is no volume in the primary market, there is no price in the secondary market, but in terms of the number of paintings, compared to other painters, his works are very few. It is understood that the total number of He Jiaying's calligraphy and painting works is more than 1,000. So what is the reason why he is so famous? Why are paintings so expensive? Explain one or two through some events.
First: the award is soft, and the work is excellent.
In 1980, at the age of 23, He Jiaying won an award for his freehand work "Flowers Fly Everywhere in Spring City" and made a name for himself in the art world. Over the years, He Jiaying has won numerous awards at home and abroad. He Jiaying graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, and later stayed in school to teach, which is a real professional style. Because of his work in art education, he specializes in artistic creation, and has participated in many large-scale activities at home and abroad and won awards: he has won the national "Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions", the "Literary and Art Workers of Virtue and Art" of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the "Four Batches" of Literary and Artistic Talents of the Central Propaganda Department, and the gold medal in the painting category in the "2012 Salon Exhibition" of the Louvre Museum in Paris in 2012. His works have won many awards.
Second, there are many overseas exhibitions.
He Jiaying has exhibited in the Louvre Museum in Paris, Santiago, Chile, Brazil, Tokyo, the United Nations Headquarters, New York, South Korea, India and other major art museums and representative buildings in more than a dozen countries around the world. It has been favored by many overseas audiences. And the information of overseas exhibitions has been reported and publicized by many domestic officials.
In 2012, at the International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (Salon de France) held in the Carrousel Hall of the Louvre Museum, France, his work "Morning Lusan" won the gold medal. Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan is looking for He Jiaying as a full professor, which is the first time in 100 years that a Chinese painter has been hired as a professor at the university. Won honor for the Chinese. At the invitation of Mr. Samaranch Jr., he held an exhibition of He Jiaying's paintings at the European Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, Spain on November 21, 2013, which was well received by the Spanish industry and the audience.
Third: Artists on the Hurun China Art List.
On June 4, 2020, He Jiaying ranked 35th in the 2020 Hurun Chinese Art List with a total turnover of RMB 18.03 million in the 2019 public auction market. His work is on par with that of many late masters. This representative, his works have really been circulated in the art market. Works** Priced from market demand. In 2023, it ranked 24th in the Hurun China Art List, with a turnover of more than 28 million.
Fourth: peach and plum all over the world.
He Jiaying, after graduating from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, stayed on to teach. Later, he served as the president of the Chinese Gongbi Painting Society, and recruited the Gongbi Painting Institute every year. The National Academy of Painting and other professional institutions have set up advanced research classes for famous artists such as He Jiaying. Students are all over the country, and the world is full of peach and plums. With many students, there is a large number of loyal "fans". He Jiaying is not only a "banner" for the creation of Gongbi characters, but also an excellent disciple of his disciples, and has also become the backbone of contemporary Gongbi painting.
Fifth: the inheritance and dissemination of culture.
"Artistic Expression and Heart" can be felt in He Jiaying's works, which can feel the creation of "inside" and "outside", which integrates Western sketches with Chinese fine brushwork, opening a new door to ideological innovation. In terms of spatial hierarchical processing, the outline of lines, the coloring of colors, and three-dimensional rendering are all endowed with innovation. He once said: "We must sincerely feel life, use the language of art to show people's hearts, people's emotions can not lose their intuition and feelings, this is art to create people's hearts." Truly "turn truth into beauty" to the extreme.