In 1988 Li Ching-yang had been trying to raise money to build a memorial museum for his father, the painter Li Mei-shu, and he put on a one-man show of his father's works at the East Gallery called "The Beauty of Autumn Leaves." The 23 paintings displayed were worth NT $ 96 million at the time, but only four or five of them were sold and Li Ching-yang took the rest back.
兩年前（民國七十七年）李梅樹的長子李景暘為了替父親籌建紀念美術館，在東之畫廊推出李梅樹專題「楓葉之美」，當時廿三張、總價九千六百萬的作品，只賣出了四、五張，其餘的由李景暘收回。