The renowned artist Wu Guanzhong criticized angrily about the publishing of the fake painting on the magazine “Art and Fortune”, which aroused intense echo in the society. Yesterday Mao Jianping, the connoisseur of painting and calligraphy, revealed that the fake painting “peach blossom” published by the magazine has already been sold out at the price of RMB 3,300,000 in the bidding block of China Guardian Auctions Co., Ltd.. Appearance: the fake painting on the magazine appeared in the bidding blockMao Jianpin introduced that when he looked up the auction material and the auction data of Artron yesterday, he discovered that the two oil paintings of Wu Guanzhong’s “Peach Blossom” (81cm×116cm) and “SuZhou Classical Gardens” (85cm×117cm) were on the auction list, which were the same two paintings published on “Art and Fortune” of the twelve issue, 2006 and pointed out by Wu Guanzhong as fake artworks not long before. The first one came in to deal at the price of RMB 3, 300,000, and the last one left to the next auction. Verification: the authentic artwork has reached RMB 4,757,000The fake artworks copied from the authentic ones. On 28th, May 2006, the authentic painting “Peach Blossom” was sold at the spring auction of Hongkong Sotheby’s at the price of RMB 4,757,000. Mao Jianping analyzed that the collector had been fooled because of the circulation of the authentic artwork.　Price: the authentic artwork worth more that RMB 5,000,000The director of Shen Xiang gallery indicated that it was not a high price, for the authentic artworks, the price should be above RMB 5,000,000 　　Research: Other fake paintings are not under traceThe “Art and Fortune” had published at least 9 fake paintings in the same issue. But now just one of them appears in the market and comes into deal. Where are the others? And are there any other collectors who fall into the trap of fake paintings? We don’t know now. They would do bad effort to the art market.