 After the exhibition, helped by art critic Gao Minglu, an individual businessman in Beijing who had contributed part of the fund for the exhibition, bought the works of over a dozen artists including Wang Guangyi, Zhang Xiaogang, Ye Yongqing, Ding Fang, Mao Xuhui and Zhang Peili, at a price of 10,000 renminbi, or about $1,200 a piece.Song Wei, who later set up one of the country's first private art galleries, has since disappeared and it is unclear whether the works he acquired survived.