The artists' works, highly sought after by western collectors, often fetch high prices.

Today such works are fetching upward of $400,000.

The best works fetched high prices, but some of the rest went unsold without so much as a nibble.

In a country where annual per capita income is about $400, his works often fetch $2,000 or more.

In fact, seven works at Christie's sale fetched well over $1 million.

Those works, which included pieces by masters like Degas and Manet, fetched a total of $31.1 million.

The artist's larger works can now fetch more than $100,000 at auction.

Since 1983, 24 works of contemporary art have fetched more than $1 million.

Similar works by Lane now fetch $3 million to $5 million.

Patricia Cornwell's early works can fetch as much as $300.