A very small work by a famous painter could claim over a million, and was hard to get even then. Many of the older Taiwan painters who had worked in obscurity for a lifetime suddenly became hot property, "and some, thinking it wouldn't last, thought to make a bundle at last. It was common to see someone producing twenty or thirty canvasses a month.
許多默默耕耘了一輩子都不受重視的台灣前輩畫家，忽然一下子炙手可熱起來，「有些把持不住，想在最後撈一筆，一個月趕二、三十幅畫也是常事。