From New York In recent years, as the world economy continues to be in the doldrums, a large number of industries such as real estate, oil and finance are in trouble. Bleak market expectations so that many investors have lost confidence, have transferred large sums of hot money to the art collection. The influx of large amounts of money, so that many of the works of everyone shot jaw-droppingly high prices. March 22, in the center of the world of art in New York spring auction site, a white American buyers in their 60s to 16.5 million U.S. dollars (
According to the international exchange rate on that day, equivalent to RMB 100 million one hundred and ten thousand four hundred and eighty-four thousand yuan) of the sky price to win the bidding to get the Doje Qiang painting - "Ink Lotus", in the spring auction of all the auction price in the first place.

It is reported that the auction held in New York, by Sotheby's, Christie's, chaste and other international auction companies to bring rare jewelry and antique paintings attracted a large number of buyers from around the world. The fine collection of auction site not only let a lot of collectors who came from afar deeply strange goods, but also let a lot of art connoisseurs cover their mouths in amazement. From the very beginning of the auction, the frequently raised offer boards made the atmosphere of competition particularly fierce. Numerous buyers pressed forward, but also the works of the masters of the price again and again to set a new record. Zhang Daqian's Deep Mountain Hidden Temple fetched $233,000, Pan Tianshou's Late Autumn in the Courtyard fetched $162,000, Lily fetched $1.565 million, Wu Changshuo's Chrysanthemum and Stone fetched $370,000, Shi Tao's Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting fetched $3.940 million, Shilu's Independence of Plums in Spring fetched $3.525 million and Zheng He's Scriptures finally fetched $14 million. The handwritten scripture by Zheng He ended up with a high price of $14 million.

Duo Jieqiang's "Ink Lotus" trekking paragraph "full of wolves and broken pens, strange, wonderful and pleasant", by many critics as a rare masterpiece. He has always been to Buddhism good karma, personally pen paintings are very rare, earlier the United States International Art Museum had to more than $ 1 million per square foot price to buy its oil paintings "sunflowers" and "water lilies", the last is still not as hoped. Therefore, collectors and merchants have heard of the news to arrive, the auction "ink lotus" naturally by the situation of the bidding. Auction site, after repeated rounds of brutal and even crazy bidding, pick up the square foot picture of the "Ink and Lotus" offer was finally fixed at $ 16.5 million.

It is understood that Duo Jieqiang's paintings exceed the value of this spring auction of Chinese ancient and modern everyone's paintings, his "Lotus Pond Carp" 200 limited edition reproductions, each sold for as much as 380,000 U.S. dollars in the international market.