However, money did not necessarily follow his works. The honor of highest selling price for one of his works went to “Twelve Folding Screens of Flowers” (137cm × 48cm × 12) in 2010 at US$5.54 million. Even during the art market boom in 2011, his work performed very stable on the high-end market and the highest price fetched for one of them was US$4.31 million. The best result of 2012 came for his “Album of Flowers” (“Bi Zhou Zi Zhen Ce” in Chinese) (32×39cm×11), which fetched US$3.02 million. 

Wu Changshuo (1844-1927), born in Anji County of Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, was the key artist when Chinese painting transferred from modern painting to contemporary painting.