由于全球金融风暴,国际市场上的亚洲艺术收藏家也谨小慎微起来。这促使如日中天的中国当代艺术市场遭遇寒流。2008年10月纽约苏富比拍卖的20世纪中国艺术品几乎全线告跌。在这家拍卖公司中110幅作品2/3未拍出,其中许多买家提出出人预料的低价。在一年两次的世界最大拍卖会上,苏富比本年度的营销额剧降,仅为1.4亿美元。 Due to the global financial crisis, Asian art collectors on the international market are cautious. This has prompted a downturn in the burgeoning Chinese contemporary art market. The 20th century Chinese art auctioned by Sotheby’s in New York in October 2008 dropped almost across the board. Two-thirds of the 110 works sold at this auction house were not produced, many of whom offered unexpectedly low prices. At the world’s largest auction twice a year, Sotheby’s sales plummeted to only 140 million U.S. dollars this year.