孙行之在2012年12月4日的《第一财经日报》中撰文说,虽然文化部《2011中国艺术品市场年度报告》和英国艺术品市场联合会的数据,都表明中国已经成为世界上最大的艺术品市场,但经历了2008年全球经济危机,中国市场也在高峰之后出现了回落。种种迹象,似乎印证了去年上海国际收藏论坛上,中国台湾藏家王定乾抛出的论断—“秋拍之后,拐点将现”。文化经济学家克莱尔·马克安德鲁在分析2011年全球艺术品市场时指出:受到经济危机影响,全球艺术品市场的需求正在逐渐 Sun Xingzhi wrote in the “First Financial Daily” on December 4, 2012 that while the Ministry of Culture’s “2011 Annual Report on China’s Artwork Market” and the data from the British Federation of the Art Market all show that China has become the largest in the world Art market, but experiencing the global economic crisis in 2008, the Chinese market also dropped after the peak. All these signs seem to confirm the assertion made by Wang Dingjian, a collector from Taiwan in China, last year at the Shanghai International Collection Forum that “the inflection point will be found after the Autumn Auction.” Clare Mark Andrew, a cultural economist, analyzed the global art market in 2011 and pointed out: Due to the economic crisis, the global art market demand is gradually