Christie’s celebrates Asian art
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Event date 13 - 28 September -
Event location New York
The biannual sale series was kicked off by the Japanese and Korean art auction, led by Hokusai’s classic print of ‘The Great Wave’, which sold for $1,260,000. Major collections of influential art dealers were a theme this season, with the top lot of the series coming from the trove of Mineo Hata, a Southern Song-dynasty Longquan celadon kinuta vase that achieved $1,381,000. Other highlights included a Qianlong-period finely carved archaistic white jade rhyton, which sold for $756,000 from the LJZ Collection; and The Keswick ‘hundred deer’ jar, which fetched $693,000 in the Marchant: Eight Treasure for the Wanli Emperor sale.
In the South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art sale, Maqbool Fida Husain’s Untitled (Naga), a sprawling East-meets-West portrait painted at the peak of the modern master’s fame, realised $1,260,000.
Concluding the series in New York, the Important Chinese Ceramics and Fine Art auction took place over two days, totalling $10,075,464 and selling 93% by value.
Upcoming highlight
Christie’s is proud to announce that a rare, complete set of Hokusai’s monumental series, Fugaku sanjurokkei (Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji) – the first to be offered at auction in two decades – is embarking on a world tour.
Tours
Tokyo, 13–14 November
Hong Kong, 25 November–1 December
Paris, 8–12 December
Auction
March 2024 | New York
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