Chinese Painters

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Kelly Crow, Art's New Pecking Order. Picasso and Warhol are being outsold by Chinese painters as a new wave of wealthy buyers reshapes global market. Inside China's high-rolling art world. Wall Street Journal, Jan 13, 2012.

My comment:
(a) A table came with the report.

"Pablo Who?

The ost expensive painting sold at auction last year was by a Chinese artist. All told, three of the tp 10 were by Chinese artists.

Qi Baishi, $65 million 'Eagle standing on Pine Tree'
Wang Meng, $62.1 million "Zhi Chuan Moving to Mountain'
Clyfford Still, $61.7 million '1949-A-No 1'
Roy Lichtenstein, $43.2 million 'I can see the Whole Room! * * * and Tere's Nobody in it!'
Francesco Guardi, $42.7 million 'Venice, a View of the Rialto Bridge, Looking North, From the Fundamenta del Carbon'

Beihong Xu, $41.8 million 'Cultivation on the Peaceful Land'
Pablo Picasso, $40.5 million 'The Reader'
Gustav Klimt, $40.4 million 'Litzlberg Am Attersee'
Egon Schiele, $40 million ;House With Laundry (Suburb II)
Andy Warhol, $38.4 million 'Self-Portrait' (1963-64)

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the article.
(b) The "high-rolling" is an adjective, whose noun counterpart is "high roller."
(i) high roller (n):
"1: a person who spends freely in luxurious living
2: a person who gambles recklessly or for high stakes"
www.m-w.com
(ii) high roller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_roller
(c) Clyfford Still
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyfford_Still
(1904-1980; American)
(d) Roy Lichtenstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein
(1923-1997)
(e) Francesco Guardi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Guardi
(1712-1793; Venitian)
(f) Egon Schiele
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Schiele
(1890-1918; Austrian)