What's Happening in Asian Art...
March 18, 2022
Anonymous, Young Men Enjoying Pastimes (detail), Edo period, Kanbun era (1661-1673), eight-panel folding screen, Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art
Day 3, Asia Week March 2022
Asia Week New York 2022 hosts a day of previews:
•All 22 gallery exhibitions are open today—find out who's open with this list with handy graph, which you can take with you while you gallery hop. Visit the Dealers' pages for more details and images of highlights.
•Opening today: Art of Japan, Fu Qiumeng Fine Art, Sebastian Izzard Asian Art, and Thomsen Gallery
•Bonhams, Heritage Auctions, iGavel and Sotheby's are holding auction viewings today
•Akar Prakar, Egenolf Gallery, Kaikodo LLC, and Thomas Murray are live with their online exhibitions today
•Asia Week New York's Online Exhibition is available.
Today's Featured Events:
•Healing Practices: Stories from Himalayan Americans exhibition opens at
Rubin Museum of Art
•Buddhist Art of Gandhara and the ‘Year 5’ Buddha: New Studies in Chronology and Iconography, Juhyung Rhi, Metropolitan Museum of Art at 4:30pm. This program will take place live and be live streamed.
•Evening Receptions at Dai Ichi Arts Ltd, Fu Qiumeng Fine Art, and Giuseppe Piva Japanese Art
Today's Online Program:
•Adopt, Adapt, Assimilate, and Transform: Early Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, Robert D. Mowry, Christie's at 1pm
View all calendar events here
Access the full Asia Week schedule here
March 18, 2022
A 15th century gilt brass statue of Manjushri from the Ming dynasty, Yongle period (1402-1424)
The Claude de Marteau Collection:
Treasures from Tibet, Nepal, India and Southeast Asia
Bonhams
Exhibition in New York: March 16-21
On view in New York after touring Brussels, Geneva, and Paris are highlights from the collection of Claude de Marteau, the highly acclaimed dealer and collector. His unique accumulation of artworks, gathered over decades, spans 1,500 years and includes works from the Hindu and Buddhist cultures that flourished in India, Nepal, Tibet and China.
As a young man, Claude de Marteau stumbled upon the art that was to be his lifelong passion while he was on an extended trip through Afghanistan, over the Hindu Kush to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Entirely self-taught, he became a respected dealer and an eminent authority on Tibetan, Nepalese, Indian and Southeast Asian art. He was renowned for his "great eye and intrinsic aesthetic sensibility", in the words of his friend, the museum curator and scholar of Southeast Asian and Himalayan art and culture, Dr. Pratapaditya Pal.
In his later years, de Marteau increasingly withdrew from public life. Although he displayed some of his collection within his mansion in the diplomatic quarter of Brussels, he kept most works in storage. As a result, only a handful of pieces from Claude's collection have ever been exhibited or published.
A comprehensive survey of the collection was published in December 2021 by the de Marteau Family, in partnership with Bonhams. This catalogue includes essays by Pratapaditya Pal, art historian Jane Casey, and an introduction by Bonhams' specialist Edward Wilkinson. The Claude de Marteau Collection will be offered in four sales by Bonhams in Paris and Hong Kong in June and October 2022 and June and October 2023.
Edward Wilkinson will deliver a live lecture about Claude de Marteau at Bonhams New York at 2pm on Saturday, March 19th (limited seating). Also, the Gandharan Shakyamuni Triad dated to "Year 5" that is the subject of Professor Juhyung Rhi's lecture at the Metropolitan Museum on Friday afternoon, March 18th, was formerly in de Marteau's collection.
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March 17, 2022
A Rare Teadust-Glazed Oviform Vase, Qianlong Impressed Mark and Period (1736-1795), Lot 1049, Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Christie's
Day 2, Asia Week March 2022-St. Patrick's Day
Asia Week New York 2022 hosts a day of previews:
•19 gallery exhibitions are open today—find out who's open with this list with handy graph, which you can take with you while you gallery hop. Visit the Dealers' pages for more details and images of highlights.
•Bonhams, Heritage Auctions, iGavel and Sotheby's are holding auction viewings today
•Akar Prakar, Egenolf Gallery, Kaikodo LLC, and Thomas Murray are live with their online exhibitions today
•Asia Week New York's Online Exhibition is available.
Today's Featured Events:
•Evening Receptions at Onishi Gallery, TAI Modern, and MIYAKO YOSHINAGA
Today's Online Programs:
•Water in a Shared World: Artist Perspectives (Practice or Action),
Asia Society
•Fantastic Brush: Twentieth-Century Chinese Ink Art,
Denver Art Museum
•Virtual Preview of Japanese and Korean Art Including the Collection of David and Nayda Utterberg and Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Christie's
•Panel Discussion with the Celebrated Artist Kondō Takahiro,
Joan B Mirviss LTD
•Fashioning an Empire: Design Inspirations from Iran,
National Museum of Asian Art
View all today's calendar events here
Access the full Asia Week schedule here
March 17, 2022
L-R: Jayashree Chakravarty (born 1956), Soaring at Akar Prakar; Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), Ichikawa Danjuro IX as Kusunoki Masatsura at the Battle of Shionawate at Egenolf Gallery; Late Eastern Zhou Bronze Garment Hook with Plaques of Jade & Gold, 5th-3rd century B.C. at Kaikodo, and
Patolu Indian Trade Cloth India, found in Indonesia at Thomas Murray
The following four galleries are participating in Asia Week March 2022 with online exhibitions.
Jayashree Chakravarty: Feeling the Pulse (in the pandemic year)
Akar Prakar
March 15-April 15
As explained by Roobina Karode, director and chief curator of KNMA, "Feeling the pulse and sensing all is well has become a preoccupation emphasized more than ever before, with disruptions and disaster that have drawn us to witness sudden, inexplicable loss, extreme vulnerability and anxiety all around. Jayashree has been seeking recuperative energies through her art-making, using grass and roots, seeds and mud, imagining sproutings of a new life from within the fertile tending of her canvas."
View the exhibition, click here
Masterworks by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) was the last of the great 19th century ukiyo-e artists, known for his early works of explicit gore, as well as for his mature works of transcendence and pathos. A consummate draftsman, he developed a unique style of representation and narrative expression after first closely adhering to the manner of his teacher, Utagawa Kuniyoshi. A master at portraying complex narratives, he could illustrate a scene at both the moment of poignant reflection, as well as at the explosive moment of dramatic intensity. Egenolf Gallery is pleased to offer a number of his most famous triptychs, including the Flute Player Triptych (Fujiwara Yasumasa Plays the Flute by Moonlight), widely considered his masterpiece.
View the exhibition, click here
The Ancients Among Us: Chinese and Japanese Paintings and Works of Art
Kaikodo LLC
March 15-25
The Ancients Among Us includes works focusing on characters drawn from antiquity, whether historically real, legendary, or figments of an imagination. A human figure mysteriously appears seated dead-center in the forehead of an otherwise typical gilt-bronze taotie mask. A dignified slender-bodied military official represents his class in a sculptural style and garb typical of the early 6th century while an aristocratic couple in kaleidoscopic color lounge on the lid of a kogo incense container, fashioned by the inimitable Nonomura Ninsei in 17th century Kyoto. Actual historical figures are immortalized in such painted images as that of the illustrious Zen monk Tōran Sōtaku, a contemporary of Ninsei and another of a Manchu noblewoman majestically sitting for her portrait in opulent formal attire. Writhing dragons on a late Zhou dynasty garment hook and a tiger captured in ink and color on silk, by a painter working centuries later, have lorded over the East and the West from time immemorial, their claim to antiquity without peer. And, finally, artists and craftsmen who have slipped into eternity are among us today through their enduring creations in all manner of media, a number of them represented in the exhibition.
View the exhibition, click here
Important Indian, Indonesian and Other Textiles and Masks: Inspiration and Interpretation
Thomas Murray
March 16-25
This Asia Week, Thomas Murray, who is based in California, hosts a display of important textiles and masks on his gallery website. For collectors with particular interest, he also has available a choice selection for examination by appointment in New York.
A number of the textiles are drawn from his new publication, Textiles of Indonesia, which presents an array of traditional weavings from the Indonesian archipelago and provides a unique window into the region's cultures, rites, and history. The objects comprise ritual clothing and ceremonial cloths that tell us much about the traditions of pre-Islamic Indonesian cultures, as well as about the influences of regional trade with China, India, the Arab world, and Europe.
Thomas Murray is currently also offering an exceptional exhibition of masks from numerous tribal groups, ranging from the Himalayas to Indonesia, even a Swiss mask from a remote Alpen valley. These striking images are crafted of a variety of materials, including wood, metal, and papier mache.
View the exhibitions, click here
March 17, 2022
Parnashvari, Goddess of Natural Healing (detail), Central Tibet, 19th century, pigments on cloth
Healing Practices: Stories from Himalayan Americans, The Rubin Museum of Art
March 18, 2022–January 16, 2023
The Rubin Museum opens their new exhibition with a celebration Friday evening, March 18th. This event is sold out, but a limited number of tickets may be available at the door.
Practices for healing vary across the world. In Tibetan Buddhism, mental, physical, and spiritual well-being are interdependent, and can only be achieved through a variety of holistic practices, from ritual to medicinal, that restore balance to these three aspects.
Healing Practices: Stories from Himalayan Americans presents the diverse ways that Tibetan Buddhist artworks and practices have served as roadmaps to well-being, with over 25 objects from the Rubin Museum’s collection set alongside personal stories and experiences from Himalayan Americans. Centered around the themes of prevention, healing, and longevity, the exhibition highlights how these living traditions are transformed and adopted for today’s world, inspiring visitors to reflect on their own healing journeys.
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March 16, 2022
Asia Week New York Online Exhibition
March 2022 Edition now live
Asia Week New York has once again prepared and made available a special online exhibition. Each of our 26 galleries and 6 auction houses are represented with a selection of highlights from their Asia Week exhibitions. Photos of the dealers' home galleries and introductory commentary about the exhibitions' themes provide additional information. The exhibition will stay online throughout Asia Week and can be accessed via the link on the banner on the opening page of AWNY's website or by clicking the link below.
Special thanks go to AWNY's terrific tech guru/design specialist/artist extraordinaire Ethan Crenson for this engaging feature.
March 16, 2022
On page 36 of the February 2022 issue of Apollo Magazine begins Jo Lawson-Tancred's preview of this season's Asia Week New York.
The February 2022 issue of the highly regarded international art magazine Apollo included a two-page preview of this season's Asia Week New York, Written by London-based arts writer Jo Lawson-Tancred, the focus was on Asia Week's return to live exhibitions and auctions and the high quality of artworks that will be available. In particular, Lawson-Tancred noted the shows of participating dealers Francesca Galloway, Kapoor Galleries, Eric Zetterquist, Sebastian Izzard, Fu Qiumeng, and Joan Mirviss, along with illustrations of several fine artworks on view this week. She also mentioned next week's Asian art auctions and two exhibitions currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum.
The full article, as well other press coverage of Asia Week New York, can be found in the Press Room section of the AWNY website. For the Apollo, click here.
March 15, 2022
Jizai Okimono, A russet-iron articulated figure of a hawk Edo period, 19th century,
Giuseppe Piva Japanese Art
There's still time to register for this evening's AWNY LAUNCH!
Tonight at 6pm EDT, join Asia Week New York for an online preview of the wonderful Asian art exhibitions and engaging programs that will be available online and in person. We'll give you a bird's eye view, so that you are sure not to miss a thing.
March 15, 2022
A Silver Betel Box with Scenes from the Sama Jataka, Lower Burma (Myanmar), 1909,
Estimate: $40,000-60,000, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art Sale, March 22, 2022
The Noble Silver Collection: Treasures from the Burmese Silver Age
Bonhams
Exhibition: March 16-21
Online sale, March 14-24
Highlights on sale live, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art Sale, March 22
This Asia Week, Bonhams offers for sale The Noble Silver Collection, the finest and most comprehensive private collection of Burmese silver in the world. The collection charts a magnificent body of work produced by Burmese master silversmiths between the mid-19th and early 20th century, a period termed the Burmese Silver Age. This little-known genre of silver art is characterized by an exuberant decorative style achieved through superb technical artistry. Unlike other producers of silverware in Asia, Burmese silver catered largely to a domestic market, producing art objects designed for traditional Southeast Asian customs such as betel culture and temple offerings. Many in the Noble Silver Collection are embellished with beloved scenes from the Ramayana and the Jataka Tales.
One of the most popular Jataka Tales, according to David C. Owens, author of the collection's catalogue, Burmese Silver Art: Masterpieces Illuminating Buddhist, Hindu, and Mythological Stories of Purpose and Wisdom is the Sama Jataka, an example of which is illustrated above. In an interview with Bonhams, Owens commented "The Sama Jataka is one of the most popular narratives featured in Burmese silver art from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. It is a Buddhist allegory on the virtue of loving kindness as exemplified by the character of Sama and the selfless care he gives to his blind parents who live an ascetic life in the forest. The narrative is linear and cogent and therefore particularly instructive as a simple moral lesson for the ages."
David Owens, who is also the collection's owner, along with his wife Kathleen, was born in England and emigrated to Canada. A career in the metal mining industry included 25 years working in Southeast and East Asia, an experience that stimulated Owens’s interest in Asian history, culture and art. A frequent visitor to Myanmar since 1992, Owens assembled The Noble Silver Collection over an eight year period. Owens's particular expertise is deciphering the iconography of the archetypal visual narratives that decorate Burmese silverwork. To read more of his interview, click here.
Highlights will be sold live as part of Bonhams Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art Sale on March 22nd and the rest is being sold online now through March 24th. For more information, click here
March 15, 2022
Buddha Attended by Two Bodhisattvas, Gandhara, Peshawar region, Pakistan, inscribed and dated
' Year 5,' schist, private collection
Annual Distinguished Lecture on the Arts of South and Southeast Asia
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday, March 18, 2022 at 4:30pm
Buddhist Art of Gandhara and the 'Year 5' Buddha: New Studies in Chronology and Iconography
Juhyung Rhi, Professor of Buddhist Art History, Seoul National University, Korea
Live at the museum and live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube
The 'Year 5' Buddha is one of only five dated Gandharan sculptures known to exist. This masterpiece, which has been widely studied and exhibited and was acquired at Christie's New York in September 2020, is of singular importance for both its dated dedicatory inscription and innovative iconographic features. This talk explores the diverse questions raised by this image within the unfolding setting of Buddhist art in Gandhara in the early centuries of the Common Era.
Professor Juhyung Rhi, who received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley, focuses on the Buddhist art of India, Central Asia, and Korea, especially the art of ancient Gandhara and the Korean tradition.
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Reflections of a Collector by George Mann
Japanese Art Society of America (JASA)
Sunday, March 20 at 11am at Japan Society
Live lecture and Zoom webinar
JASA hosts a lecture by renowned Chicago print collector George Mann, who will share his perspective on putting together one of the finest Japanese print collections in private hands. The lecture will be held at Japan Society in New York, 333 E 47th St, and on Zoom. The lecture will be followed by JASA's business meeting.
As recalled in his recent memoir, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints, George Mann, who had a career as a lawyer, was set on his long engagement with Japanese prints by the Cottle family, whose son Tom was a school-friend of Mann. Over the decades, he encountered many scholars, dealers, and collectors, all of whom shared his passion for Japanese prints .
Advance registration is required for this event. For those who visit in person, their ticket will also give access to Japan Society's current exhibition Shikō Munakata:
A Way of Seeing. Read more and to register, click here
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