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Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd. Presents Gods, Gardens and Princes: Indian Works on Paper

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Folio from a Company School album of botanical paintings, Mango (Mangifera indica), India, circa 1830, watercolour on paper, 17 x 22 in. (43.2 x 56 cm)

Gods, Gardens and Princes: Indian Works on Paper
March 14–22, 2024
Asia Week Hours: Mar 14-15 & 18-22, 10am-6pm; Mar 16-17, 10am-5pm (otherwise by appointment)
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 14,  5-8pm
67 East 80 Street, Suite 2

Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd.  is pleased to return to New York for Asia Week and present an exhibition comprising of court paintings from India and Persia from the 17th to 19th centuries. A highlight of the show is the striking painting, Krishna dancing on Kaliya flanked by two nagini. This, along with many other works on paper, will be displayed at their Upper East Side location.

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Krishna dancing on the naga Kalaya flanked by his pleading wives, probably Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, South India, late eighteenth c., gouache heightened with gold on paper, red pointed arched border with blue banding and black and white rules, a line of devanagari on recto and verso, 10 1/4 x 6 7⁄8 in. (26.1 x 17.5 cm) painting, 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. (27.4 x 19 cm) folio

Based in London since 1998, Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch are former directors of the Antiquities and Islamic and Indian Art departments at Sotheby’s, London. Their professional expertise encompasses Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Islamic art. They also specialize in the art of the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia, covering works from the Buddhist and Hindu dynasties to the Mughals, with a special emphasis on Indian and Islamic miniature painting and manuscripts.

To view their newest catalog, click here.

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Egenolf Gallery’s Supernatural: Cat Demons, Ogres and Shapeshifters

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), Kabuki actor Onoe Kikugorô III as the Cat Witch of Okabe, 1847, Japanese color woodblock print triptych

Supernatural: Cat Demons, Ogres and Shapeshifters
March 16–17, 2024
Asia Week Hours: Mar 16-17, 11am-6pm (otherwise by appointment)
Conrad New York Midtown 151 West 54th St (near 7th Ave)

Egenolf Gallery, based in Southern California, is pleased to return to New York for Asia Week with an exhibition of Japanese prints of cat monsters, shapeshifting beauties, and other fantastic scenes of the supernatural. Spectral scenes were essential ingredients of kabuki plays, and ukiyo-e of the time reflect the excitement and drama of this mainstay of 19th c. popular culture.

Kuniyoshi’s designs of demonic cat ghosts are especially remarkable, as he was a master of feline imagery. Yoshitoshi’s supernatural images are also renowned, especially for the power of their storytelling. Artists drew from the long tradition of supernatural stories in Japan, which dates back hundreds of years, even into the folklore of prehistory. We look forward to welcoming you to our upcoming exhibit at the Conrad New York Midtown from March 16th through the 17th.

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Dai Ichi Arts’s Ceramic Frontiers: Sodeisha & Shikokai in Post-war Japanese Art

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Yamada Hikaru 山田光 (1924-2001), Juts in a Clay Plane 陶面の中の凸面, 1976, glazed ceramic, 17 1/4 x 13 3/4 x 3 7/8 in. (43.9 x 34.8 x 9.9 cm)

Ceramic Frontiers: Sodeisha & Shikokai in Post-war Japanese Art
March 12–28, 2024
Asia Week Hours: Mar 14-23, 11-5pm (otherwise by appointment)
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 14, 5:30-7:30pm
18 East 64th Street, Suite 1F

On the occasion of Asia Week New York, Dai Ichi Arts is thrilled to present the landmark exhibition Ceramic Frontiers: Sodeisha & Shikokai in Post-war Japanese Art illuminating the richness of the sculptural ceramic movements, Sodeisha and Shikokai, during the mid-20th century. This exhibit will offer a distinctive lens through which to explore “Post-war” ceramics from Japan.

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Hayashi Yasuo 林康夫 (b. 1928), Seat, 1978, white englobing, biscuit firing, ceramic, H12.2 x W18.4 x D6.8 in. (H30.9 x W46.7 x D17.2 cm), with signed wood box

This exhibition unveils a curated collection of masterpieces by renowned artists integral to the Shikokai and Sodeisha canon in Japanese ceramic art history. Among the luminaries featured are Hayashi Yasuo, Suzuki Osamu, Kumakura Junkichi, Yagi Kazuo, Yamada Hikaru, Fujimoto Yoshimichi, and other influential figures that defined this pivotal period in Japanese ceramic art. Exhibition catalog features new essays by Kazuko Todate (Art Critic/Member of the International Academy of Ceramics & former a chief curator of Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Japan) & Daniel McOwan (Scholar and Curator of Japanese Art).

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Ralph M. Chait Galleries Spring Exhibition of Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art

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Fine and Rare Chinese Famille Vert Porcelain Piggyback Boys, Kangxi period, AD 1662-1722, H: 9 ¼ in (23.5 cm)

Spring Exhibition of Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art
March 14–22, 2024
Asia Week Hours: 10-6pm (otherwise by appointment)
16 East 52nd Street, 10th Floor

Located in New York City, Ralph M. Chait Galleries will showcase their Spring exhibition of fine Chinese porcelain and works of art. With their elaborately vibrant painted robes, and smiling playful faces, this rare Chinese Famille Verte porcelain aptly called Piggyback Boys, from the Kangxi Period (1662-1722) is one of the many prize examples that will be on view during Asia Week New York.

Ralph M. Chait Galleries is the oldest specialist gallery in the US in the field of Chinese antique porcelains and works of art. The gallery was opened by Ralph M. Chait, who began in 1910 as a young man newly arrived from London. Self-taught, he went on to gain as clients John D. Rockefeller Jr., President Herbert Hoover, Sir Percival David, Avery Brundage, and many others. Since that time, the gallery has remained in the family and is now run by Ralph Chait’s grandsons, Steven and Andrew.

They will be open throughout the weekend from March 14th to the 22nd and look forward to your visit!

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BachmannEckenstein Japanese Art Presents Japanese Art | Pre-modern and beyond

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Fukuda Kodojin, Moon over Azure Mountains, 1899, ink and color on paper, 18¾ x 13¼ in (47.6 x 33.7 cm), Mounting: 50½ x 18¾ in (128.5 x 47.5 cm)

Japanese Art | Pre-modern and beyond
March 15–19, 2024
Asia Week Hours: Mar 15-19, 11am-6pm (otherwise by appointment)
Leslie Feely 1044 Madison Avenue, Suite #4F

Hailing from Switzerland, BachmannEckenstein Japanese Art is pleased to be exhibiting Japanese Art | Pre-modern and beyond during this upcoming Asia Week New York featuring outstanding artists’ letters, trending Kintsugi pieces and paintings by Fukuda Kodojin which recently were exhibited in the artist’s monumental retrospective at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. They look forward to welcoming you at 1044 Madison Avenue, Suite #4F from March 15th through the 19th.

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Kintsugi Teabowl, Karatsu ware, Momoyama period, H: 1 ¾ in (4.5 cm), D: 5 ½ in (14 cm), Ex coll. Matsunaga Jian (1875-1971), Collector’s box

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Art Passages’ Indian Paintings: Latest Acquisitions

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A Wedding Celebration, c. 1780, Tamil Nadu, Thanjavur, Company School, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Indian Paintings: Latest Acquisitions
March 13–19, 2024
Online Exhibition

Art Passages will present Indian Paintings: Latest Acquisitions, an online exhibition of Indian paintings exhibiting a wide array of schools and subject matter during Asia Week New York. From Mughal portraiture to Company School, these paintings reflect the taste and interest of their patrons: Nobles, devotees, and English resident rulers of India. Among the highlights is Wedding Celebration, a Company School watercolor, circa 1788.

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Alisan Fine Arts Asia Week New York Exhibitions

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Kelly Wang (b. 1992), Red Lotus 2, 2023, ink, xuan paper, pigment and resin on aluminum, 30 x 30 inches

Landscape as Metaphor: Contemporary Voices
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Lui Shou-Kwan: Shifting Landscapes
February 27–April 27, 2024
Asia Week Hours: Mar 14-16 & 18-22, 10-6pm; Mar 17 by appointment only
Asia Week New York Opening Reception: Thursday, March 14 from 5-8pm
120 East 65th Street

With their first location in the States, Alisan Fine Arts’s newly opened gallery space on New York City’s Upper East Side presents two exhibitions in conversation with each other during this season’s Asia Week New York.

Landscape as Metaphor: Contemporary Voices is a group exhibition featuring artists Bouie Choi, Chu Chu, Lam Tung Pang, Kelly Wang and Yang Yongliang, each of whom distinctively interpret the subject of landscape. While connected through observations of landscapes, spaces and cities, the works in this exhibition span a wide variety of mediums and each artist goes beyond physical observation to reveal deeply personal experiences and parts of their own identities.

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Lui Shou-Kwan (1919-1975), Zen Painting 1970, A70-19, 1970, Chinese ink & color on paper, 151.5 x 82.5 cm

And on view in conjunction with Asia Week New York is Shifting Landscapes, a solo exhibition celebrating the art of pioneering ink artist Lui Shou-Kwan (1919-1975). Lui’s first exhibition in New York highlights transformative works from the artist’s career that bridged tradition and modernity while also sparking new dialogue in the international art community. Lui was a vanguard figure of the New Ink Movement in Hong Kong, a movement that reimagined the Chinese Ink tradition and flourished from the 1950s to 1970s. Extremely influential to the following generation of artists, Lui was instrumental in transforming traditional Chinese ink painting into a modern, global art form.

Accompanying Asia Week New York, Alisan Fine Arts will be hosting a reception and meet-and greet with artist Kelly Wang on March 14th from 5-8pm.

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The Art of Japan’s Japanese Prints from 1750-1950

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Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), Series: A Guide to Women’s Contemporary Style Title: Courtesan of the Northern Quarter, Publisher: Murata-ya Jirobei, woodblock print

Japanese Prints from 1750-1950
March 15–17, 2024
Asia Week Hours: Mar 15-17, 10am-6pm (otherwise by appointment)
The Mark Hotel 25 East 77th Street, Suite 215

For our 15th season of Asia Week New York, The Art of Japan, which is based in Medina, Washington, will return to New York with Japanese Prints, 1750-1950. On view will be a complete set of Utamaro’s famous 12 Hours in the Yoshiwara, in addition to other major works by Hiroshige, Eishi, Kiyochika and others. As in past years, the owners and collectors Richard Waldman and Doug Frazer will be located at the Mark Hotel. Both men bring decades of experience, a wealth of knowledge, and an abundance of enthusiasm to the field, as well as exceptional examples of Japanese woodblock prints. They look forward to displaying these Japanese prints in the traditional manner in folders in a comfortable and quiet setting.

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Katsukawa Shun’ei (1762-1819), Hatsuakebono no Kaomise Soga, Performed at the Miyako-za 1794, 1794, woodblock print

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Carlton Rochell Asian Art and Shibunkaku Participating in TEFAF Maastricht

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TEFAF Maastricht
March 9–14, 2024
Forum 100, 6229 GV Maastricht, The Netherlands

Two of our Asia Week New York members, Carlton Rochell Asian Art and Shibunkaku, will be participating in the TEFAF Maastricht fair next weekend with their fine collections of Asian Art

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Mandala of Shakya Simha, Tibet, late 14th century, distemper and gold highlights on cotton canvas, 33 1/8 x 29 1/8 in (84.2 by 74 cm)

Carlton Rochell Asian Art will be in Booth 168 showcasing an exceptional Mandala of Shakya Simha, among other fine Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian art pieces.

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While Shibunkaku in Booth 191 will present Harmony: Vitality in Coexistence exhibiting works of representative Japanese artists spanning from mid-Edo period to modern paintings and postwar avant-garde calligraphy, all the way to contemporary bronze artworks.

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They look forward to welcoming you to Maastricht soon!

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AWNY Preview Part III: Showcasing Fine Prints and Paintings during Asia Week New York

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Top L-R: Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), Mount Breithorn, oil on canvas, signed H. Yoshida to lower left corner, ca. 1925, painting: 17 7/8 x 23 7/8 in., frame: 23 3/4 x 29 5/8 in., Scholten Japanese Art; Sekine Yoshio, No. 174, oil on canvas, 1968, 33.5 x 24.4 cm; 35 x 26 cm (overall), Shinbunkaku; Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), Raiko Conquering the Shuten Doji Demon of Oe Mountain, 1864, Japanese color woodblock print triptych, 37.1 x 77.7 cm, Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints; Hosoda Eishi (1756−1829), Standing Beauty with a Letter in her Hand, hanging scroll: ink, color, and gold pigment on silk, 30½ x 9¾ in., Kansei era, circa 1793−95, signed: Eishi zu, sealed: Kakei, Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art; Bottom L-R: Chung Sanghwa, Untitled 86-2-6, 1986, acrylic on canvas, 39 1/4 x 25 1/2 in., HK Art & Antiques LLC; Ken Matsubara, Green Dragon 青龍(額・炉縁), pigment on paper, H6.6 × W42.5 × D42.5 cm, Ippodo Gallery; Kitagawa Utamaro, Series: A Guide to Women’s Contemporary Style Title: Courtesan of the Northern Quarter, publisher: Murata-ya Jirobei, fine impression, color, and condition, The Art of Japan; Joo Myung Duck, Seoul, 2011, archival pigment print, 20 x 30 in., © Joo Myung Duck/Datz Museum of Art & Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery

As part III of our Asia Week New York previews, prepare to experience beautiful prints and paintings from eight of our esteemed dealers in just two weeks!

The Art of Japan
Japanese Prints from 1750-1950
March 15–17, 2024
The Mark Hotel 25 East 77th Street, Suite 215

The Art of Japan will present Japanese Prints, 1750-1950 with 50 new prints now online. On view is a complete set of Utamaro’s famous 12 Hours in the Yoshiwara, in addition to other major works by Hiroshige, Eishi, Kiyochika and others.

Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints
Supernatural: Cat Demons, Ogres and Shapeshifters
March 16–17, 2024
Conrad New York Midtown 151 W 54th St (near 7th Ave)

Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints will showcase Japanese prints of cat monsters, shapeshifting beauties, and other fantastic scenes of the supernatural. Spectral scenes were essential ingredients of kabuki plays, and ukiyo-e of the time reflect the excitement and drama of this mainstay of 19th c. popular culture. Artists drew from the long tradition of supernatural stories in Japan, which dates back hundreds of years, even into the folklore of prehistory.

HK Art & Antiques LLC
Korean Artists in Paris
March 15 – April 5, 2024
49 East 78th Street, Suite 4B

Curated by Heakyum Kim and Pierre Cambon, the former curator at the Musée Guimet, Korean Artists in Paris at HK Art & Antiques showcases the work of Chung Sanghwa, Shin Sung Hy, Nam Kwan and Kim Sang-lan, four Korean artists who have lived and worked in Paris. Known in both Korea and France, their successful careers cover a great span of time, from the 1950s to the present. Each artist demonstrates how the two countries impacted their work.

Ippodo Gallery
Cosmic Sound: Master Paintings by Ken Matsubara
March 14–April 4, 2024
Opening Reception with Artist & Performance: Thursday, March 14th, 5-8pm (RSVP required)
32 East 67th Street, 3rd Floor

Ippoodo Gallery is proud to present Cosmic Sound: Master Paintings by Ken Matsubara, a culmination of the artist’s concepts featuring 20 of the beloved painter’s unique artworks, including three works depicting the auspicious and fearsome dragon zodiac, the spectacular 12-panel Kūkai’s View, and versions of Scenery and the Moon Sound. There will also be a special otsuzumi drum performance during the opening reception by Shonosuke Okura.

Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art
Japanese Paintings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, 1760-1810
March 15–22, 2024
17 East 76th Street, 3rd Floor

Sebastian Izzard’s spring exhibition explores the graphic culture of Edo in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as chronicling changes in fashions and political affairs that affected the world of ukiyo-e. Suzuki Harunobu (1724–1770) and his contemporaries are represented as are his successors in the following decades such as Torii Kiyonaga and Kitagawa Utamaro.

Scholten Japanese Art
COLLECTING THE MASTER: The Binnie Collection of Hiroshi Yoshida Paintings
March 14–22, 2024
145 West 58th Street, Suite 6D

Scholten Japanese Art is pleased to exhibit COLLECTING THE MASTER: The Binnie Collection of Hiroshi Yoshida Paintings. This private collection of paintings by the great 20th century artist, Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) was assembled by prominent woodblock print artist, Paul Binnie (b. 1967) and celebrates the culmination of Binnie’s decades-long pursuit of building a comprehensive representation of Yoshida’s work.

Shibunkaku
Postwar Japanese Calligraphy and Painting
March 14–April 19, 2024
Joan B. Mirviss Ltd 39 East 78th Street, Suite 401

Postwar Japanese Calligraphy and Painting at Shibunkaku will focus on contemporary paintings by the artist Sekine Yoshio, who participated in the founding of the Gutai Art Association. He left Gutai in 1959 and pursued the creation of abstract canvases using real-life objects as motifs which attracted attention to his unique style, a “hybrid of figurative and abstract art.”

Miyako Yoshinaga
Joo Myung Duck: Sensory Space in Photography and its Conversation with Korean Abstract Painting
March 8–April 13, 2024
24 East 64th Street, Third Floor

Miyako Yoshinaga is pleased to present Joo Myung Duck: Sensory Space in Photography and its Conversation with Korean Abstract Painting. This solo exhibition of Joo Myung Duck will showcase the artist’s transition from social realism to abstract photography and also strive to shed light on this master photographer’s relationship with Korean abstract art, particularly, the artists of the Dansaekhwa movement investigating their shared aesthetic, methodology, and philosophy.

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