Asia Week New York Autumn 2025 Auction Results
The three live sales of Asian Art Week totaled $46,685,403, achieving 259 percent hammer and premium above low estimate combined, with a sell-through rate of 91 percent. More than half the lots during the week sold above the high estimate, and 28 percent of buyers were either new to Christie’s or to the category they were buying in. Christie’s set four records for artists in the South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art sale, saw a thriving modern Japanese and Korean market, and strong bidding in the Chinese Works of Art sale across categories. The week began with Japanese and Korean Art, which totaled $2,463,419, selling 159 percent hammer and premium against low estimate and 86 percent by lot. South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art was 100 percent sold by lot for a total of $12,383,154, or 191 percent hammer and premium above low estimate. Important Chinese Furniture and Works of Art made $31,838,830, 92 percent sold by lot, and 320 percent sold hammer and premium against low estimate.
The Head of the Chinese Works of Art Department in New York, Vicki Paloympis, said: “The Important Chinese Furniture and Works of Art sale capped off a fantastic week of sales, showing strength in Classical furniture, Ming and Qing porcelains, and early jades. We saw particular interest in works from private American collections, such as the Chinese furniture from the Shanruoshui Xuan Collection and the Chinese porcelains from the Thomas R. Vaughan Collection. There was energetic participation in the saleroom, on the phone, and online– especially from North America and Asia– showing a continued global interest in the Asian art market.”
To learn more about all the sales highlights, click here.
Recently Concluded Fall Sales
Asia Week New York Auctions: September 10–25, 2025
Guided Tours with Robert D. Mowry, Christie’s Senior Consultant, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Emeritus, Harvard Art Museums: Saturday, Sept 13 from 11am–12pm & 3–4pm
Asian Art Week returns to New York this September with five distinct sales spanning centuries of history, celebrating the breadth of artistic traditions across Asia.
This week is led by Vasudeo S. Gaitonde’s 1984 masterpiece, first offered by Christie’s in 1987 and now returning for the 30th anniversary of our South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art department.
Other highlights include a rare Yongzheng mark-and-period ‘floral scroll’ moon flask, along with imperial Ming and Qing porcelains from the esteemed Collection of Thomas R. Vaughan, important and rare classical Chinese furniture from the Shanruoshui Xuan Collection, a rare classic Hokusai beauty painting and prints by Hasui and Sharaku.
This season will also feature the collection of Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, a lifelong scholar of Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art, pairing exceptional provenance with opportunities for both seasoned and emerging collectors.
Be sure to join our guided tours with Robert D. Mowry, Christie’s Senior Consultant, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Emeritus, Harvard Art Museums on Saturday, Sept 13 from 11am-12pm and 3-4pm.
Explore the sales in person at our Rockefeller Center galleries and online, then get ready to bid beginning September 10!
For an overview of our fall Asian Art Week, click here.
Japanese and Korean Art
Auction: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10am EDT (Lots 101-319)
Previews: September 12–13 & 15, 10am-5pm; Sept 14, 1-5pm
This season’s Japanese and Korean Art sale is led by a superb woodblock print by Toshusai Sharaku and an elegant scroll painting by Katsushika Hokusai. The auction also features a fine selection of 20th-century prints by masters like Kawase Hasui and Yoshida Hiroshi, some extraordinary Buddhist sculptures from both Japan and Korea, an iconic selection of modern art from the two cultures and a curated selection of lacquer works, metalworks, sculptures and much more. Discover the auction in person at our New York galleries from 12 to 15 September.
Contact:
Takaaki Murakami
(212) 636 2160
[email protected]
VASUDEO S. GAITONDE (1924-2001), Untitled, signed in Marathi and dated ’84’ and signed and dated ‘V.S. GAITONDE / 1984’ (on the reverse), oil on canvas, 38 7⁄8 x 32 in. (98.7 x 81.3 cm), painted in 1984, Lot 713, estimate US$2,000,000-3,000,000, South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art Sale
South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art
Auction: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 10am EDT
Previews: September 12–13 & 15–16, 10am-5pm; Sept 14, 1-5pm
This autumn, Christie’s auction of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art will take place on 17 September during Asian Art Week in New York. Our catalogue reflects the diversity and evolution of artistic practices and styles across South Asia and its diaspora throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
The sale is led by an important Untitled painting from 1984 by Vasudeo S. Gaitonde. First sold by Christie’s on 20 December 1987 in a charity auction in Mumbai, this luminous painting is meticulously constructed using numerous translucent layers of fiery amber and gold. Seemingly radiating light from within, it is one of the artist’s finest works from the period and underlines Christie’s longstanding commitment to India and South Asian art over the last four decades.
2025 marks the birth centenary of both Tyeb Mehta and Krishen Khanna. We are honored to celebrate their legacies with paintings that feature their most iconic subjects: Tyeb Mehta’s Trussed Bull and Krishen Khanna’s Bandwallas in Procession. These are accompanied by significant works by other important modern artists from the Subcontinent, including Jehangir Sabavala’s The Sand-Bank from 1967, last exhibited almost six decades ago, Sayed Haider Raza’s canonical Germination from 1988, Francis Newton Souza’s 1957 portrait Girl in a Dressing Gown and Maqbool Fida Husain’s dynamic Horses painted in 1971. The catalogue also features significant works by Jamini Roy, K.H. Ara, K.K. Hebbar, G.R. Santosh, Sakti Burman, Anwar Jalal Shemza and Rashid Chowdhury.
Also included are works by Abdur Rahman Chughtai, George Keyt, Ivan Peries, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Jagdish Swaminathan and Shanti Dave, complemented by a selection of contemporary pieces by Jitish Kallat and Ravinder Reddy.
Contact:
Nishad Avari
(212) 636 2190
[email protected]
A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLORAL SCROLL’ MOON FLASK, YONGZHENG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735), Lot 1019, estimate US$500,000-800,000, Important Chinese Furniture and Works of Art Sale
Important Chinese Furniture and Works of Art
Two-Day Auction: Thursday September 18 & Friday, September 19, 2025 at 9am EDT
Previews: September 12–13 & 15–17, 10am-5pm; Sept 14, 1-5pm
Important Chinese Furniture and Works of Art is led by a magnificent Yongzheng mark-and-period blue and white ‘floral scroll’ moon flask, an extremely rare Dehua figure of standing Damo and Chinese ceramics from the Collection of Thomas R. Vaughan (1908–1979), which includes three imperial Yongzheng yuzhi-marked falangcai pieces. The sale also features a large carved wood figure of Guanyin from the 11th to 12th century, a superb Yongle-period tianbai-glazed barbed ‘grapevine’ dish and a very rare huanghuali flush-sided corner-leg table. Classical Chinese furniture opens the sale and features a selection of important and rare examples from the Shanruoshui Xuan Collection, including works from the well-regarded exhibition Beyond the Screen at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Additional highlights include a curated selection of gilt-bronze figures and vessels from an important North American private collection as well as early Chinese jades from a distinguished private New York collection.
Contact:
Rufus Chen
(212) 636 2180
[email protected]
Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art, including Property from the Pal Family Collection
Online Auction: September 10–24, 2025, 10am EDT
Previews: September 12–13 & 15–16, 10am-5pm; Sept 14, 1-5pm
This September, Christie’s presents Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art, including Property from the Pal Family Collection. The sale is opened by a robust single-owner section, The Last Dance of the Peacock: Property from the Pal Family Collection, representing the collected works of Dr Pratapaditya Pal, a lifelong scholar of Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian works of art. Highlights from the collection include a signed and handwritten poem by the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a diverse array of devotional prints, paintings, sculpture, decorative objects and rare collectibles — many with a connection to the peacock motif. The sale concludes with a various-owners section comprising Tibetan Thangkas, a collection of Indian textiles, Indian court paintings and Gandharan sculpture.
Contact:
Edward Wilkinson
+4420 7389 2302
[email protected]
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849), Gaifu kaisei (Fine wind, clear weather) [“Red Fuji”], woodblock print, from the series Fugaku sanjurokkei (Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji), late 1831, horizontal oban: 101⁄4 x 147⁄8 in. (26 x 37.8 cm), Lot 181, estimate US$30,000-50,000, Arts of Asia Online Sale
Arts of Asia Online
Online Auction: September 10 – 25, 2025, 10am EDT
Previews: September 12–13 & 15–17, 10am-5pm; Sept 14, 1-5pm
Arts of Asia Online presents a curated selection of artworks representing centuries of history and culture of China, Korea and Japan. Our diverse offering includes ceramics, jade carvings, furniture, lacquerwares, metalwork, sculptures, prints, paintings, and more. With a wide range of estimates, Arts of Asia Online offers opportunities for both burgeoning and established collectors of Asian art.
Contact:
Kathleen Coyne
(212) 636 2180
[email protected]
