华尔街日报:淘宝一元开拍毕加索作品。
The Wall Street Journal reports that last week Chinese buyers scooped up a Picasso painting and a sculpture by Salvador Dali. But the transactions didn't take place at an auction house or at Art Basel, they were all done through Taobao, China's largest e-commerce marketplace.
The sales—which launched with an initial bidding price of just 1 yuan (16 U.S. cents)—are part of an art auction service that Taobao recently started in China on its Paimai auction site.
According to the works' introduction pages, Beverly Hills-based Galerie Michael provided both the Picasso, which sold for 1.15 million yuan ($180,000), and the Dali sculpture, which sold for 357,001 yuan.