Heritage Auctions celebrates return to Asia Week New York
Qi Baishi (Chinese, 1864-1957), Dragonfly. Fan leaf, ink and color on paper, 7-1/8 x 20-1/2 inches (18.1 x 52.1 cm) (work), 12-1/4 x 20-1/2 inches (30.5 x 52.1 cm) (overall) Two red seals. Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000.
DALLAS, TX
.- An extraordinary selection of artwork from Chinese artist Qi Baishi and an impressive array of Indian and Himalayan art are among the top draws in Heritage Auctions Fine & Decorative Asian Art auction March 16, an event in which Heritage will expand its footprint in Asia Week New York. Heritage Auction s Consignment Directors Moyun Niu and Clementine Chen shared their excitement to celebrate New York Asia Week with over 300 fine and decorative Asian Art pieces, comprised of Chinese, Japanese and Korean ceramics, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, furniture and more, Heritage Auctions Asian Art Consignment Director Moyun Niu said. Among the many fine treasures, they highlight, are a group o
Domaine de la Romanee Conti leads Heritage Wine Auction beyond $2.6 million
The top lot in the sale, Romanee Conti 1971 Domaine de la Romanee Conti Jeroboam (1) realized $92,250.
DALLAS, TX
.- Eager bidding from nearly 550 collectors drove Heritage Auctions Fine & Rare Wine Auction to $2,651,842 in total sales Dec. 11.
The 1,070-lot single-owner event boasted sell-through rates of 96.3% by value and 97.8% by lots sold. The auction lured 544 bidders from countries around the world, including Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Japan, China and Australia. The collection that made up the entirety of this sale was exceptional, and the results reflected that, especially the strong prices realized for many older white wines Heritage Auctions Fine & Rare Wine Senior Director Frank Martell said. The consignor of this collection is extremely knowledgeable and passionate about elite wine, and it showed in his collection, the last of which found new homes through this auction.
Rare Song Dynasty painting sells for $675K, setting Heritage Auctions Asian art record
Chinese School, After Li Song (Song Dynasty), Riders on Horseback, Song Dynasty. Handscroll, ink and color on silk, 44 x 10-1/2 inches.
DALLAS, TX
.- An extremely rare painting from the Song Dynasty (960-1279 A.D.) of polo players riding donkeys soared to $675,000 to lead Heritage Auctions Fine & Decorative Asian Art Auction to $1,337,455 in sales Dec. 11.
The lot accounted for just over half of the total result from the auction, and set a record for the highest price ever paid for any lot sold in Heritage s Asian Art department. The previous record was Wu Changshuo Peony, Bottle Gourds, and Loquats, Dingzi, 1917, which sold in March 2019 for $399,000.
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by Doreen Carvajal
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- For more than 70 years, Léone Meyers family has fought to reclaim a looted painting, and yet she cannot bear the thought of displaying it in her Left Bank home, across from the River Seine. The small work, by Camille Pissarro, shows a shepherdess tending her flock, and hangs not far away at the Musée dOrsay, with other precious French impressionist paintings. But the peaceful countryside scene from 1886 is fraught with a backstory of plunder, family tragedy and legal battles that stretch from Paris to Oklahoma. Meyers mother, grandmother, uncle and brother died in Auschwitz. Her father hid the painting in a French bank that was looted in 1941 by the Nazis, and the work vanished in the murky universe of art market collaborators and middlemen. Decades later, in 2012, she discovered the whereabouts of La Bergère, or Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep, in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, at th