Poly Auction Hong Kong concluded its modern and contemporary art sale on April 6, achieving a total of HK$76.4 million (US$9.8 million) with a 67% sell-through rate. The auction was headlined by Liu Wei’s 1995 masterpiece "You Like Pork?", which sold for HK$27.6 million (US$3.5 million) to a phone bidder. Other top performers included Zao Wou-Ki’s "15.07.67" from his Hurricane period and Wu Dayu’s "Rhymes of Beijing Opera," both of which surpassed the HK$10 million threshold.
The sale of "You Like Pork?" underscores the enduring market appetite for pivotal works from the Cynical Realism movement that debuted on the international stage during the 1990s. Originally showcased at the 1995 Venice Biennale, the painting represents a critical shift away from the more commercial "Political Pop" style toward a raw, visceral critique of consumerism and the commodification of the human body in post-reform China. The result demonstrates that despite a cooling global economy, high-provenance works with significant exhibition histories continue to command premium prices in the Asian market.