Want to know where investors are placing some of their biggest bets? Look on their walls.
好奇投资者将筹码押到了哪里？看看他们墙上所挂何物吧。
Art prices swelled last year, lifting sales at Christie's International PLC to $5.7 billion last year, up 14% from the year before. The London-based auction house said on Tuesday that the total includes $4.9 billion in auction sales and $808.6 million in art sales it brokered privately, as galleries typically do. The private-sale total doubled from a year ago, it added.
去年艺术品价格大幅上涨，知名拍卖行佳士得(Christie's International PLC)全年销售额达到57亿美元，同比增长14%。这家总部位于伦敦的私人所有的拍卖行近日表示，这57亿美元的销售额包括公开拍卖的49亿美元和非公开成交的8.086亿美元，而后者较上一年度增长了一倍。一般情况下，艺术品的非公开交易平台主要是画廊。
Christie's auction sales matched those of its chief rival, Sotheby's, which said it auctioned off $4.9 billion of art last year, up 14.5% from the year before. Sotheby's, which is publicly held, said it would disclose its private sales later this month.
佳士得的拍卖成绩与其主要竞争对手苏富比(Sotheby's)旗鼓相当。在美国上市的苏富比表示其去年拍卖销售额为49亿美元，同比增长14.5%。苏富比称其将于本月晚些时候披露非公开销售数据。
Steven Murphy, chief executive of the privately held Christie's, said collectors and investors alike see art as a potentially safe haven for their cash at a time when the broader financialoutlook remains volatile: 'Everyone is doubling down on art,' he said. 'That's why our market is so strong now.'
佳士得首席执行长斯蒂芬•墨菲(Steven Murphy)表示，由于金融前景依然充满变数，收藏者和投资者都将艺术品视为现金保值的一个妥当选择。他说，"人人都在抢购艺术品，所以这个市场现在这么火。"
Overall, art values rose 10.2% last year, according to art-market analyst Michael Moses, whose New York firm Beautiful Asset Advisors runs indexes that track shifts in the sale prices of thousands of artworks that have sold at auction more than once over the years.
艺术品市场分析师迈克尔•摩西(Michael Moses)表示，总体而言，去年艺术品价值上涨了10.2%。他在纽约创建的公司Beautiful Asset Advisors编制艺术品市场指数，跟踪在公开拍卖中至少出现过两次的数千件艺术品的成交价变化情况。
The pace of art buying varies around the world, though. Collectors in the U.S. shopped cautiously last year, with Christie's sales in America dropping 3%, to $1.9 billion, from the year before. Its sales also were down 64% in Dubai, to $18.6 million. On the other hand, European collectors
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