Art Market Monitor Analyzes Continued Chinese Buying at Auction

February 16th, 2016

The Art Market Monitor takes an interesting approach in analyzing the auctions of the past few weeks, noting a continued surge in Chinese buyers, and paralleling that with a recent New York Times article charting continued efforts by wealthy Chinese citizens to move their money out of the national currency.  “Individuals can move $50,000 a year across China’s borders,” the article quotes from Keith Bradsher’s original piece. “Companies and sophisticated investors have more freedom to send out money legally for big-ticket purchases and investments.”

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