New York – Christie’s New York celebrates Asian Art Week with eight sales; four live and four online. Live sales begin 19 March with Japanese and Korean Art, featuring the highest-value lot of the season, Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, and an exciting Korean works of art section. Live sales continue 20 March with Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art, including important Himalayan sculptures and paintings and an impressive selection of Indian paintings. South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art Including Works from the Collection of Umesh and Sunanda Gaur, features significant paintings by Francis Newton Souza, Sayed Haider Raza, Jehangir Sabavala, Maqbool Fida Husain, Sadanand Bakre, Ganesh Pyne, Manjit Bawa and Gulammohammed Sheikh. Ending the week of live auctions is the two-day sale of Important Chinese Art Including the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman, from 21-22 March. The sale includes outstanding works from prominent institutional and private collections of ceramics, cloisonné, lacquer, jade, scholar’s objects, textiles, and classical Chinese furniture.

Four online sales complement the live auctions, all open for bidding on 13 March: Landscapes of Japan: Woodblock Prints from Edo to Post-War, South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art Online, Arts of Asia Online, and Chinese Works of Art from the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman.

ASIAN ART WEEK | LIVE AUCTION OVERVIEW

Japanese and Korean Art
19 March 2024 | 10:00 AM

This season’s Japanese and Korean Art sale features fine Korean works of art and an exciting modern and contemporary section. The top lot of the sale is a complete set of Katsushika Hokusai’s masterpiece, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. There hasn’t been a complete set of this masterpiece on the market in 20 years. This is the highest value lot of the season and is estimated for $3,000,000-5,000,000.

Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art
20 March 2024 | 9:00 AM

This season’s sale features a wide selection of works from across India, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. Leading the sale is a group fine Himalayan gilt bronzes, foremost among them a rare Zanabazar style gilt-bronze figure of Green Tara from the Nyingjei Lam Collection. Other important Himalayan sculptures include a large and rare Western Tibetan silver-inlaid figure of Vairochana, a large 16th century Tibetan gilt-bronze figure of Amitabha, and a 14th-15th century Nepalese gilt-bronze figure of Chakrasamvara. The selection of Himalayan paintings highlights an important Eastern Tibetan painting of Ngor Abbots. The sale also includes a group of Gandharan works of art from a New York estate. The sale concludes with an impressive selection of Indian paintings, including a folio from the ‘large’ Guler-Basohli Bhagavata Purana series, several works from the workshop of the artist Purkhu, a portrait of Kashmir darners by the artist Bishan Singh, and a selection of Company School and Early Bengal School works.

South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art Including Works from the Collection of Umesh and Sunanda Gaur
20 March 2024 | 11:00 AM

South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art Including Works from the Collection of Umesh and Sunanda Gaur celebrates the wide variety of artistic practices and styles in South Asia and its diaspora during the 20th and 21st centuries. The sale highlights a group of important modern works from the renowned collection of Umesh and Sunanda Gaur, including significant lots by Francis Newton Souza, Sudhir Patwardhan and Nalini Malani. The Gaurs have devoted more than three decades to the patronage and promotion of South Asian Art in North America, building one of the finest and deepest collections over this period, and spearheading several museum exhibitions of works from this category across the continent from the early 2000s onward. 2024 marks Francis Newton Souza’s centenary, and the sale celebrates his legacy through a selection of masterpieces from almost every decade of his career, most of which are completely fresh to the market. Additional highlights include significant paintings by Sayed Haider Raza, Jehangir Sabavala, Maqbool Fida Husain, Sadanand Bakre, Ganesh Pyne, Manjit Bawa and Gulammohammed Sheikh. The sale also features works by pioneers of South Asian modernism Jamini Roy, Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Allah Bux and George Keyt, accompanied by important contemporary lots by Zarina, Nasreen Mohamedi, Sheila Makhijani and Salman Toor.

Important Chinese Art Including the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman
21-22 March 2024 | 9:00 AM

Important Chinese Art Including the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman features outstanding works from prominent institutional and private collections of ceramics, cloisonné, lacquer, jade, scholar’s objects, textiles, and classical Chinese furniture. Highlights include a very rare Ge foliate dish from the Linyushanren collection, a pair of imperial gilt-bronze ritual bells from the Kangxi Period, a carved huanghuali canopy bed, a group of massive jade vessels from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and more than a hundred works from noted Chinese porcelain collector and philanthropist Dorothy Tapper Goldman.  

ASIAN ART WEEK | ONLINE AUCTION OVERVIEW

Landscapes of Japan: Woodblock Prints from Edo to Post-War
13-26 March 2024

Landscapes of Japan: Woodblock Prints form Edo to Post-War is open for bidding online from 13-26 March. The sale features works by the grand masters of Japanese woodblock prints on landscape, from Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige to Kawase Hasui and Yoshida Hiroshi.

South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art Online
13-27 March 2024 

Christie’s online auction of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art presents a wide variety of works across diverse genres and media by well-known artists from South Asia and its diaspora for new and seasoned collectors alike, including property from the renowned collections of Umesh and Sunanda Gaur and Mahinder and Sharad Tak. Works by modernists Maqbool Fida Husain, Sayed Haider Raza, Francis Newton Souza, Bal Chhabda and Manjit Bawa are offered alongside significant lots by Atul Dodiya, Paresh Maity and Jangarh Singh Shyam, to name only a few artists.  

Arts of Asia Online
13-28 March 2024
 
This Asian Art Week, Christie’s is pleased to present Arts of Asia Online, a carefully curated selection spanning across India, the Himalayas, China, Korea, and Japan. The sale presents a wide selection of works across various media, including ceramics, jade carvings, lacquerware, metalwork, furniture, textiles, bronze sculpture, stone sculpture, prints, and paintings. Highlights from the sale include a selection of Chinese porcelain from the collection of Dr. Hiroshi Horiuchi, a fine selection of Japanese inro, and curated groupings of Himalayan bronze sculpture and Indian court paintings from prestigious private collections. With a wide range of estimates, Arts of Asia Online presents opportunities for both burgeoning and established collectors of Asian art.

Chinese Works of Art from the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman
13-29 March 2024
 
Christie’s is pleased to present the online sale of Chinese works of art from the beloved collector, professor, connoisseur and philanthropist Dorothy Tapper Goldman. Offered in conjunction with a selection of works in the Important Chinese Art sale, this online auction presents collectors an additional opportunity to acquire objects that are representative of the collector’s refined taste and discerning eye. Mrs. Goldman’s home featured porcelains grouped by color, with those exhibited in the living room ranging from lemon-yellow to emerald-green and lavender-blue, beautifully interspersed with delicate works of art in gilt-bronze and wood. In the dining room, her impressive collection of luminous white Dehua porcelains was featured opposite rich works in tixi lacquer, creating an elegant display to please the eye. The sale comprises 120 lots including contemporary Chinese paintings, Dehua wares and monochrome porcelains, works of art and scholar’s objects.

MARCH 2024 | ASIAN ART WEEK
LIVE AUCTIONS
Japanese and Korean Art | 19 March 2024
Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art | 20 March 2024
South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art | 20 March 2024
Important Chinese Art Including the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman | 21-22 March 2024

ONLINE SALES

Landscapes of Japan: Woodblock Prints from Edo to Post-War | 13-26 March 2024
South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art Online | 13-27 March 2024
Arts of Asia Online | 13- 28 March 2024
Chinese Works of Art from the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman | 13-29 March 2024