Katsushika Hokusai's masterpiece Huge waves The reason I came to Christie is because to some extent, never Huge waves First is the New York Auction House in Asia Week. This year, which will be held on March 18 in the auction house's live Japanese and Korean art sales, with an estimated value of $600,000, accounting for a large margin in the 18th century lunar cans, overestimating $2.5 million . More easily available are the pleasant moody hasui kawase prints, Snow in the evening in terashimaexpected to be sold for $12,000 to $22,000.
Side note: Exhibitions focused on Korean art and culture, such as the Metropolitan “Blood”, which usually include Moon Cans, have become idols of Korean minimalist and Confucian values. Called dal-hang-ari In Korean, the moon cans of the Joseph dynasty (1392-1897) are unusually rare. Few examples of real originals survive, which is why Joseon Moon Jars sold for millions of dollars at auction, one of which was a record-breaking piece at the 2023 Asian Art Week auction, Christie's hammered for over $4 million.
One of the best things about New York Asia Week is that everyone has a suitable person for everyone in sales and shows. For example, if you like classic woodcut prints but don't want to buy them, Japanese art will return to the city at the Mark Hotel from March 14 to March 16 with “250 Years of Japanese Woodblock Prints” , the works that showcased Yoshida Hirota, Takahashiki, Kitagawa Utamaro and Hokusai. But if you want to see this is contemporary Asian art, you are in luck. Ippodo Gallery will open its new Tribeca flagship store on March 13, opening with “Gold in Japanese Art: Gold”. Kogei The artist will present works that combine materials in an innovative way.
Among other highlights, Alisan Fine Arts will showcase the ink art of Gu Gan, Lee Chun-Yi and Wucius Wong in “Reconstructing Reality”, HK Art and Antiques showcase Bohnchang Koo and Geejo Lee’s “Elegance and Simplicity” Works displayed in the works. Fu Qiuumeng Fine Art will explore classical and modern Chinese ink traditions in the form of “Fluid Power: Ink Art”. Francesca Galloway, London gallery, will “India’s obsession with the natural world: Mughals, Rajput and corporate school painting” (Les Enluminures).
Overall, twenty-seven dealers and galleries are installing performances this year, showing a wide variety of porcelain, textiles, sculptures, bronzes, paintings, prints, etc., representing a 5,000-year history. Although most Asian week openings in New York or around March 13, Fu Qiumeng Fine Art held a speech and demonstration with artist Brandon Sadler on March 1 and combined his solo exhibition in New York debut New York Fair: “Along the way: : Change tradition.”
Outside the gallery, the Japan Society presented “Auspicious Celebration of Japanese Art in a New York Private Collection,” a display of rare items that included the celebration theme of Dr. Miyeko Murase. Asian society demonstrated “The treasure of the empire: Chinese ceramics of the Yuanhe Dynasty and the Third Hall of the Dynasty of the John D. Rockefellers”, thanks to its title, which requires no explanation. The Korean Association (by appointment) hosted the “cho | in a grand manner,” the artist’s work reinterpreted the landscape from multiple angles, and Asian art fans may already know that the Metropolitan Metropolis has shown “Recasting the Past: Chinese Bronze Art, 1100-1900” until September 28, 2025. During New York Asia Week, the museum hosted a curator's speech. Beyond Simulation: Rethinking Chinese Bronze, 1100–1900March 11 with Pengliang Lu.
It is worth noting that several institutions outside the city will target several related programs for New York Asia Week, including the Chicago Institute of Art (“Modern Portraits in Modern Japanese Printing”), the Denver Museum of Art (“Moon Stage: Korean Moon Cans” ”) and the San Antonio Museum of Art (“Imagine the Hindu God: Expanding Dashan and Manjari Sharma”).
On the sales front, Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonhams and several other Auction Houses have compiled sales for New York Asia Week. Bonhams’ Asian week includes eight auctions, four of which are on-site sales: Chinese ceramics and artworks, which include part of Bernard and Francine Wald, collecting snuff bottles for sale; classical and modern Chinese painting; Indian and Himalayan art; and exquisite Japanese and Korean art. Meanwhile, Heritage Auctions is selling Japanese prints from the Nelkin series, yes, including another Huge waves.
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Sotheby's Asia Week New York will begin with a modern and modern South Asian art auction, led by the huge Jagdish Swaminathan Triptych, Salute to Solzhenitsynoverestimated at $2 million. Other highlights include works by Jehangir Sabavala, Francis Newton Souza, Maqbool Fida Husain, Ganesh Pyne, George Keyt and Zubeida Agha. Next is the Chinese Art Sales led by a commemorative Famille Rose Qianlong vases overestimated $1.2 million and Indian and Himalayan art auctions, which featured classical Indian paintings in a major collection of New York and were from financier and scholar Kevin R. Brine collect. Online, the auction house will provide important Japanese swords and armor from Paul L. Davidson’s collection.
Meanwhile, Christie's other Asian Art Week products include South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art Sales, which include Maqbool Fida Husain paintings in 1954: Untitled (G Yatra) (Overest estimate: $3.5 million) It has not been exhibited since the year of the painting and at the important Chinese furniture and art auctions. The online auction house will host its online sale of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art and Asian Art.
It's a lot worth it, but it's as overwhelming as the New York Asian Week show, and it's always nice when a few days of fairly relaxing gallery dancing can take you to the country to the country and through thousands of years of art history. If, like here, you can also dig into a diverse cultural heritage.
Spring 2025 Edition Asia Week New York It will be held from March 13 to March 21, 2025.
