The celebrity effect is an noticeable important phenomenon which reflect on the art is that the price of the painting in market is not up to the quality but the author.

名人效应是我国历代书画艺术领域中引人关注的重要现象，这一现象反映在艺术市场上，是书画价格的高低不在于其作品质量如何，而主要取决于其作者名气的大小；

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At a Beijing auction in November a painting by Liu Xiaodong, one of the so-called cynical realists, sold for $2.7m, the highest price ever paid for work by a contemporary Chinese artist.

刘小东，号称愤世嫉俗的现实主义画家，他的作品于11月在北京一次拍卖中被人以270万美元买走，这创造了当代中国艺术品最高成交价格的记录。

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The five-foot-high painting sold for $106.5m, the second $100m-plus price achieved for a work of art at auction this year (see article).(Alberto

这幅5英尺高的画像以1.065亿美元的天价售出，是今年在拍卖行卖出的第二件售价高于1亿美元的艺术品（见上图）。

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One dealer who has done a number of transactions with the family recounts a time when David's London nephew changed the price of a painting after the two had agreed on a number.

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After all, since when did the buyer of a painting whose price later drops expect to be compensated by the painter?

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Then they gave a price for painting the outside walls of the house and the crippled man said it was too much.

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