That auction set a record price for a classical Chinese painting sold in the United States: $3.44 million. Buyers also snatched up classical paintings at Sotheby's Hong Kong spring sales in April.

The most significant classical Chinese painting is the Qingming Shanghetu or Along the River During the Qingming Festival, which was painted nearly 900 years ago during the Northern Song dynasty.

Song Dynasty Emperor Huizong practically defined the canon of classical Chinese painting, but his reign was in other ways disastrous.

Zhang Daqian may not be a household name in the West, but in China – and the global art market at large – he is on par with the likes of Warhol and Monet. A master of classical Chinese ...

In a serene Manhattan gallery along Broadway, visitors encounter an atmosphere where ancient poetry meets contemporary ...

A master of classical Chinese painting who later reimagined modern art in his adopted American homeland, Zhang’s work spanned traditions from ink landscapes to abstraction.

C.C. Wang, 96, a Chinese American art expert who sold classical Chinese paintings and also created his own works, died July 3 in New York City. Born Wang Jiqian near Suzhou, China, Wang began ...

Lauded as a "pinnacle of Chinese aesthetics," The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting premiered in 2021 at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts and rose to international ...

The star lot of the Fine Classical Chinese Painting sale at Sotheby’s Hong Kong was a seven-century-old calligraphy in cursive script by Rao Jie, a renowned scholar and calligrapher active ...

Seeing "Beyond the Mountain: Contemporary Chinese Artists on the Classical Forms" is also a great reason to check out the renovated Seattle Asian Art Museum.

Visiting Stanford Art Gallery’s new exhibition “Shifting Fields: Contemporary Chinese Painting” could take you either 10 minutes, or it could take you two hours.