Maqboolfide Husain (1913-2011), Untitled (Naga), led the South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art auction at $1,260,000.
NEW YORK CITY — Christie’s presented six live and three online auctions September 19-28, earning the house a combined tally that exceeded $35 million.
Christie’s sale of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art on September 20 achieved a total of $11,020,590, with an auction total that was 187 percent hammer above low estimate, and 96 percent sold by lot. The house set multiple artist auction records during the sale, which was led by Maqbool Fida Husain’s Untitled (Naga), which made $1,260,000.
Bidders rode Katsushika Hokusai’s “Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa) [“Great Wave”] to $1,260,000.
Japanese and Korean Art on September 19 saw a top lot in Hokusai’s “Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa) [“Great Wave”],” which realized $1,260,000; the sale totaled $3,334,464.
Achieving $1,381,000 and top-lot honors in Christie’s Mineo Hata: An Instinctive Eye sale on September 21 was this large Longquan celadon Kinuta vase, Southern Song Dynasty.
On September 21, the top lots for the LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades were an archaistic white jade rhyton from the Qianlong period (1736-1795), which realized $756,000 in a sale that totaled $2,639,700.
In the Mineo Hata: An Instictive Eye on September 21, leading the sale was a Southern Song dynasty large Longquan celadon kinuta vase, that brought $1,381,000. The sale was followed that day with “Marchant: Eight Treasures for the Wanli Emperor,” which made $1,877,400 and saw its top lot in a Keswick “Hundred Deer” jar at $693,000. Closing out the live sales September 21-22 with Important Chinese ceramics and works of art, a two-day sale that raked in $10,075,464 with a top lot at $1,008,000 for a Seventeenth Century huanghuali’s “official’s hat.”
Topping Christie’s important Chinese ceramics and works of art sale on September 21-22 at $1,008,000 was this huanguali “official’s” hat armchair.
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