Shanghai Art Fair, as the most international domestic and Asian trade art exhibition with long history, will begrandly held from Sept.9-13 at ShanghaiMART, continuing the scale as before, presenting domestic and overseas collectors a gorgeous art event in Shanghai as well.

Shanghai, locates on the window of foreign trade with its unique historical and geographical advantages, along with dense commercials trade and culture communication. It has become a large financial and cultural platform which attracts worldwide attention with not only superior condition of international exhibition but also breeds a relatively mature domestic and Asian art market.

Shanghai Art Fair, established in 1997, has been held successfully under the support of Shanghai government for the last twelve sessions/ A professional curating organizing team has been formed, and we build the fair into a internationalized, optimized and standardized international art event which not only builds a compatible bridge between worldwide and Shanghai, public and art, but also shapes a paradigm for the domestic art fairs.

More than 1,000 art galleries, organizations, agencies from over 30 countries and areas have takenpart in the lively art gala in the past dozen years. Many original artworks from the world-class masters, such as Picasso, Rembrandt, Chagall, Dali, Renoir, Monet,Zhu Dequn, Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Zhang Daqian, made the debut in China or Asiathrough the great stage established by Shanghai Art Fair. Meanwhile, Shanghai art Fair creates a proud history of the transaction:

SAF 2000: The most spectacular one is Rodin"s sculpture called, The Thinker, brought by Sayegh Gallery (France), which was purchased at the price of $1,000,000 by Pudong Lianyang Land Development Company and set in Shanghai forever.This has been the biggest overseas transaction in Shanghai Art Fair.

SAF 2002: Another sculpture called, Thumb, made by Cesar, was collected at the price of 2,600,000 RMB by Shanghai Zendai Group.
SAF 2003: One of Zhang Daqian"s paintings was sold at 5,500,000 RMB, which became the highlight of the fair.

Peter Denger, the famous curator of Basel Art Fair which is called Olympic in art once gave Shanghai Art Fair a high rating "It"s a great international art fair with bright future".

It is believed that Shanghai Art Fair will continue leading Asian art market under the support of art lovers and collectors.

Venue and Address:
ShanghaiMART
99, Xingyi Road, Shanghai