Zeng Fanzhi's Last Supper sells for Asian record $24.7m A PAINTING by Zeng Fanzhi sold for $US23.3m ($24.7m) at a Sotheby's auction on Saturday night in Hong Kong, setting a new record price for a work by an Asian contemporary artist. Titled The Last Supper and inspired by the Leonardo da Vincis 15th-century mural of the same name, the large painting­ - about 4m wide - was sold after a bidding war that lasted more than 10 minutes between two buyers on the phone. A crowd of 600 people in a packed room at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre applauded several times as the prices slowly escalated up to the final result.