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surface of the object is incised with a fne Our Field Artillery chisel, then inlaid with gold and lead. Attacks the Enemy 521 West 26th Street, NY 10001. Camp at Jiuliancheng For gallery hours, tel 212 695 8035, (1894), by Kobayashi onishigallery.com Kiyochika ASIA WEEK NEW YORK (1847-1915), ON THE VANGUARD woodblock print Meiji Period triptych, It is very good news, indeed, that Asia Week New York is going ahead, UTAGAWA KUNISADA Woodblock Prints 14 3/4 by 28 7/8 in, despite the difculties involved in arranging the event this year during Four bronze long-horned bulls His World Revisited Scholten Japanese Art, Scholten Japanese Art the pandemic and Covid 19 restrictions. To overcome the many and a horse, Sebastian Izzard 11 to 20 March, hurdles, this year is a hybrid event – by appointment only supported by Western Han dynasty, 15 to 26 March, by appointment only and online leading the way – by balancing society’s JAPANESE PRINTS online exhibitions. Some dealers, who have galleries in New York City, 3rd-1st century BC, by appointment only and online Tis show focuses on the creative intermittent longing for ‘Old Japan’ Hara Shobo are choosing to open their spaces whilst complying with Covid 19 state lengths On show is a selection paintings, expression seen in Meiji-era prints and while adapting, and even embracing, a 11 to 20 March, online only 17.8 to 24.8 cm, woodblock prints, and illustrated books the acceptance of new cultural ideas in changing world. View of Pleasure Boats at Ryogoku, the Maki-e gold lacquer box by Yoshio safety laws, as well as an online presence on Asia Week New York’s Kaikodo Okada (b 1977), 2020, from Tensho website. Other participants, obviously including the overseas dealers, by the 19th century ukiyo-e master the Japanese populace at large during One artist who successfully navigated Eastern Capital (toto ryogoku yusen no Utagawa Kunisada. Te contents of this this dynamic period in the late 19th and that dichotomy was Tsukioka zu), is a polychrome triptych woodcut (Celestial Phenomenon) series, are having online contributions only this year. Thomsen Gallery Tis is the 12th annual week and, as usual, it coincides with the exhibition cover most aspects of early 20th century. Te Meiji period Yoshitoshi (1839-1892). Te exhibition by Utagawa Hiroshige, and a highlight Spring sales at the auction houses – with physical and online sales. Kunisada’s long career; many of them (1868-1912), defned by the reign of features an impression of the iconic of the online show at Hara Shobo in We have been able to include museum exhibitions in the guide, some rare examples of his fnest works. Emperor Meiji (1852-1912), was an era work popularly known as Te Flute Tokyo. It is a traditional scene depicting Included are fve of the seven prints that Sawamura Sojuro III as Ume no of rapid modernization as Japan Player Triptych, published in 1883. pleasure boats on the Sumida River required for his extraordinary Tensho, are currently open, but please check with each institution on their Yoshibei, also Known as Tosshi by safety policies and opening times. make up Greatest Hit Plays, a series from transformed from a feudal society based Providing fascinating context, the show with people gathering to celebrate (Celestial Phenomena) series. Alongside 1815 featuring images of leading Kabuki Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), on samurai culture into a modern nation. includes prints illustrating the ‘Flute beginning of summer and view the Tensho series, the gallery is ofering Asia Week New York’s online hosting for the event goes live 7/1863, colour woodblock print, oban actors in celebrated past performances. Te prints in this show explore how Player’ by his follower Yoshu Chikanobu freworks from the Ryogoku Bridge, on seven boxes with jellyfsh designs, on their website on 11 March and continues until 20 March. Te set is notable for the reintroduction tate-e, 39.4 x 26.4 cm, from the artists recorded and responded to the (1838-1912) from the same year; his the riverbank of the Sumida River. including a special set of fve fnished Asian Art Newspaper is also posting our Asia Week guide on the of mica backgrounds, a stencilled series Untitled Series of Okubi-e Actors introduction of foreign elements, at teacher, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797- Tel +81 3 5212 7801, last year, each of them brilliantly website with all the relevant links. surface little used since the mid-1790s. Past and Present, Sebastian Izzard times resisting the march toward 1861) from 1845; as well as a later harashobo.com exploiting the painstaking, progressive At the end of his career, between 1860 modernity by embracing nostalgia. printing of Yoshitoshi’s frst attempt at nature of lacquer decoration to create Shingu Sayaka (b 1979), is a and 1864, Kunisada embarked on a the elements in surprising ways that Ultimately, the artists who prevailed the subject which he designed in 1868. YOSHIO OKADA the illusion of creatures swimming at CLICK HERE CLICK HERE highlight of the show – Erosion, a large series of prints featuring close-up were defantly unconventional and were those that were on the vanguard – Another section of the show looks at Thomsen Gallery diferent depths in clear ocean waters. for the latest for the latest ceramic sculpture from 2021. Te portraits of actors in their most famous characteristically ‘Rosanjin’. the military vanguard – literally on the 11 to 20 March, 9 East 63rd Street 2/F, NY 10065. AWNY website info Asian Art Newspaper artist is recognised for her ceramic roles. Te set, Untitled Series of Okubi-e 39 East 78th Street, Suite 401, NY front lines – with a group of prints by appointment only and online For gallery hours, tel 212 288 2588, fowers series, in which she expresses Actors Past and Present, was planned as a 10075. related to the First Sino-Japanese War Te lacquer artist Yoshio Okada creates thomsengallery.com a feeling of transience, feetingness, monument to his career, with no For gallery hours tel 212 799 4021, (1894-95) and the Russo-Japanese War dramatic lacquer work that refects the and immortality. expense spared in the production of the mirviss.com (1904-05). Drawn primarily from a skills of the great masters of the Edo SELECTIONS OF 18 East 64th Street,1/F, NY 10065. prints and used the most expensive private collection, the avant-garde artist period. Reaching back to an era of JAPANESE ART For gallery hours, tel 212 230 1680, paper and elaborate printing techniques THE ETERNAL Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915) is Japan’s great cultural assimilation from Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art daiichiarts.com including burnishing and gaufrage, BEAUTY OF METAL well-represented in the exhibition with the Asian continent during the 6th to 11 to 20 March, online only crushed mother-of-pearl, and on Onishi Gallery examples of his innovative Western- 8th centuries, Okada frequently adopts A highlight this year from the online CHIURA OBATA occasion even gold wash. 11 to 20 March, infuenced landscapes as well as several the ancient, all-but-forgotten kanshitsu show is a 12th-century fgure of Figure seated on a lotus, Buddhist Woodblock Prints Also featured in the exhibition are by appointment only and online of his most evocative war prints, (dry lacquer) method, originally used to Gozu-Tenno, a menacing Shinto bronze, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), And Paintings prints from the series Te Tirty-two One of the most recent works that including the triptych from 1894, Our create Buddhist statuary. Combining deity depicted with hair rising up height 13 cm; and bronze sculptural Egenolf Gallery Contemporary Types, long regarded as Osumi Yukie has produced, Araiso, or Silver Vase (2020), Araiso (Rough Field Artillery Attacks the Enemy Camp at layers of hemp cloth with the dark, like fames and two bull horns group of the Birth of Sakyamuni, Ming 11 to 20 March, online only Kunisada’s masterpiece in the feld of ‘Rough Shore’, references the artist’s Shore), by Osumi Yukie (b 1945), Jiuliancheng. sticky sap of the lacquer tree (Rhus emerging from its head. Gozu- dynasty, height of bronze without base One of the highlights in this single- beauty prints, and Fashionable Makeup signature motif: the ceaseless movement Living National Treasure, hammered 145 West 58th Street, Suite 6D, vernicifua), he bends (so to speak) Tenno, known as Ox-Headed 18.2 cm, Zetterquist Galleries artist exhibition by Chiura Obata (1885- Mirrors, in which women from various of nature. Osumi employs a centuries- silver with nunome zogan (textile imprint NY 10019. For gallery hours, kanshitsu to his creative ends, kneading Heavenly King, is deity of disease 1975) is Evening Glow at Mono Lake, walks of life are shown intimately old technique known as nunomezogan, inlay) decoration in lead and gold, tel 212 585 0474, the fabric before the lacquer hardens and and healing, who was thought to collections. Highlights include two from Mono Mills (1930), one of the best engaged in preparing themselves for the or ‘textile imprint inlay’ in which the 27.1 x 25.3 x 25.3 cm, Onishi Gallery scholten-japanese-art.com moulding it to form the special shapes Continued on page 18 mini-collections of ancient Chinese and prints from the World Landscape Series: day, their visages framed within the Chinese Imperial, green-ground, porcelain bowl, Kangxi mark and period, Southeast Asian objects ranging from America. Obata collaborated with the borders of a black hand mirror case. circa late 17th century, decorated inside and out with ‘eight sacred horses leaping the Shang to Ming dynasties. Te frst Japanese publisher Takamizawa, who Several illustrated books will round out over waves strewn with precious things’, diam. 15.8 cm, Ralph M Chait Galleries is housed in a custom ftted huanghuali employed more than 32 carvers and 40 the exhibition. Catalogue available. scholar’s object box and includes a Yuan- printers for 18 months, for this project. 17 East 76th Street, 3/F, NY 10021. Chinese Art particularly useful as end tables in a dynasty ‘Revolving Stem-cup’, one of Although a professor at Berkeley, in For gallery hours, tel 212 794 1522, domestic setting, but also strong four known pieces in the world. Te 1942 Obata and his family were izzardasianart.com CHINESE enough to stand on their own in a other group is displayed in an incarcerated at the Topaz internment PORCELAINS AND museum installation. interconnecting grid of shadow boxes, camp, where he opened an art school for TRADITION WORKS OF ART Tel 917 945 9293, which includes ancient gilt-bronze and fellow internees. His colleagues at REDEFINED Ralph M Chait or UK +44 (0) 7810 647258, stone objects. Other highlights include Berkeley were able to preserve much of Rosanjin and His Rivals 11 to 20 March, nicholasgrindley.com two Ming-dynasty bronzes, one his artwork and he returned to teaching Joan B Mirviss by appointment only and online sourced in Japan and the other in the US, there in 1945. 11 to 20 March, A highlight of the show is an Imperial EARTHLY AGENDAS from the same rare group, and reunited Tel 661 821 0256, by appointment only and online Chinese green porcelain bowl with the Kaikodo after centuries, to be ofered as one lot. egenolfgallerycom Rosanjin has long been hailed as a Imperial mark from the Kangxi period. 11 to 20 March, online only Tey appear to have originally been part one of the greatest ceramists of the A rare type that is usually dated towards Among European admirers of Asian of a large tableau depicting Pure-Land 10th century. His bold, eclectic the beginning of the Kangxi reign. Te art was the Swiss artist Alberto Buddhist imagery. ceramics emerged from the highly decorative motif of eight sacred horses Giacometti (1901-1966). While 3 East 66th Street 2B, NY 10065. creative atmosphere of postwar leaping over waves strewn with precious conversant with Chinese painting, For gallery hours, tel 212 751 0650, Japan. Rosanjin forged a remarkable things originates from the early Ming Giacometti might not have known zettterquist.com career, but it was not without frst dynasty. that his signature cast-bronze crossing paths, and even colliding, 16 East 52nd Street, 10/f, sculptures with surfaces appearing Japanese and with many of his contemporaries NY 10022. rough, crusty, and eroded, the human who were themselves renowned For gallery hours, tel 212 397 2818, and animal forms attenuated, their Korean Art ceramic masters and connoisseurs. In rmchait.com limbs stretched thin and spindly, had his own words, Kitaoji Rosanjin predecessors in the ancient art of JAPANESE PRINTS (1883-1959) came to ceramics as a CHINESE SCHOLAR’S China. From the standpoint of Asian The Art of Japan gourmand; dissatisfed with the OBJECTS art specialists, the oxen featured in 11 to 20 March, online only Glazed bowl decorated with the artist’s tableware options for presenting Nicholas Grindley Earthly Agendas at Kaikodo – are clear In the Foothills of the Mountains, signature patterning of red and white elegant cuisine, Rosanjin set about 11 to 20 March, online only examples of a Han-dynasty regional Atagoyama 1932, Fall and Summer, are camellia with bright green leaves, creating them himself for his A pair of early 18th-century, hongmu, artistic norm. Tey also serve as part of the selection of woodblock by Kitaoji Rosanjin (1883-1959), exclusive eating club in Tokyo. Not square stools, from the Qing dynasty, appropriate symbols of this lunar year, prints ofered by Te Art of Japan. circa 1940, glazed stoneware, wanting to imitate past traditional Kangxi period, is among the advancing under the spell of the Te prints depict views of Mt Fuji – 4 3/8 x 8 7/8 in, Joan Mirviss forms and glazes, he instead ‘remixed’ oferings at Nicholas Grindley’s metal ox. and by altering pigments and an online show. What is particularly Tel 808 964 3229, additional block to create the efect of In the foothills of interesting about these stools, kaikodo.com rain, the publisher and artist worked the mountains, On the Vanguard: Meiji Period Woodblock Prints especially when they survive in pairs, together to create two completely Atagoyama, Fall and is their scale. Tey are rarely 22 CERAMICS AND diferent moods using essentially the Summer (1932) by Asia Week New York, March 11 – 20, 2020 inches square, making them not only WORKS OF ART same blocks and the same subject. Takahashi Hiroaki FROM CHINA, JAPAN, Tel 206 859 9940, (1871-1945), 11 am – 5 pm by appointment AND KOREA theartofjapan.com colour woodblock Zetterquist Galleries prints, ed. 200, 145 West 58th Street, suite 6D 11 to 20 March, THE PASSAGE OF The Art of Japan by appointment only and online TIME New York, NY 10019 In a departure from previous exhibitions, Dai Ichi Arts tel. 212.585.0474 Pair of hongmu square stools, 11 to 20 March, which have focused mainly on ceramics, scholten-japanese-art.com Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, this year includes ceramics, bronze, by appointment and online early 18th century, 47 x 55.6 stone, painting and calligraphy, mostly In this exhibition, an example of the x 55.6 cm, Nicholas Grindley sourced from American and Japanese young emerging Japanese ceramicist,

Gozu Tenno, 19th century, Khatamkari dagger, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART wood, Turkey, Ottoman Empire, polychrome, 17th century, overall ancient to the contemporary. three bodhisattvas together has a these bodhisattvas are at the centre height 11 inches, wood, steel, A highlight includes a frst-showing long history, and they play an of this great devotional tradition that 54 cm, gold, mother of pearl, of a group of contemporary essential role in the introduction of is embraced across the Himalayas. Hiroshi Yanagi ebony, ivory, metalwork by Living National Buddhism to Tibet. Te exhibition In the Chinese galleries, there is Oriental Art Runjeet Singh Treasures and emerging artists and draws together a dramatic group of the new display to celebrate the lunar a selection of woodblock prints paintings, sculptures, ritual objects, new year, the Chinese New Year, from the Lee E Dirks Collection. and illustrated manuscripts from Te Year of the Ox. Also continuing Portrait of a stallion, Kishangarh, Opening on 17 March, is the 11th to 18th centuries, made is Chinese Painting and Calligraphy circa 1740, brush drawing with colour Bodhisattvas of Wisdom, Compassion, primarily for Nepal and Tibet’s Up Close (until 27 June), and and gold on paper, 16.6 x 22.6 cm, Meditation (2014) by Higashi Kiyokazu, and Power. Within the Buddhist monastic institutions. Beautifully Masters and Masterpieces Chinese Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch madake bamboo, rattan, traditions of the Himalayas, three cast sculptures and accessible Art from the Florence and Herbert 10.25 x 15 x 7 in, Tai Modern bodhisattvas emerge as paintings showing peaceful Irving Collection (until 5 June), which is a perfect example of the Herdboy with Water Buffalo, personifcations of Buddhist ideals. manifestations of the bodhisattvas In the South Asian galleries is the quell epidemics and has been many layers and infuences found in moments from the fux of experience. cloisonné, gilded bronze, Manjushri, who cuts through intended for the public are continuation of the exhibition Sita worshipped since the Heian period. Indian art. It was painted by Shaykh Tis is space where she can hold In a Deep Sleep (2020) Qing dynasty, Kangxi period ignorance and personifes correct juxtaposed with complex tantric and Rama: Te Ramayana in Indian Te sculpture is unusual as it lacks Zayn al-Din, a Muslim artist from conversations with her inner self. As by Manika Nagare, oil on canvas, (1662–1722), 42.9 x 41.9 cm. knowledge; Avalokiteshvara, a images of the highest quality done Painting (until 7 March). the bull’s head that is commonly One of 10 leaves from the Shahnameh, Patna, who was commissioned in the the eyes get used to this monumental 89.4 x 81 cm © Manika Nagare. Gift of Edward G Kennedy, compassionate protector of the in portable media made for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, perched atop the deity’s human head. Rostam Kills the White Demon, Shiraz, 1770s by Lady Impey, to create an twilight landscape, the details begin Courtesy Miyako Yoshinaga, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art devout that helps reveal the true monastic elites. Representations of metmuseum.org Tel +81 75 551 4128, Iran, circa 1570, opaque watercolour album illustrating her much-loved to reveal themselves. It is as if some nature of reality; and Vajrapani as h-yanagi.com and gold on paper, 44 x 29 cm each menagerie in Calcutta. In these natural formations were playing with in the public art projects she has Te Met’s new show for Spring is the embodiment of the energy of leaf, Prahlad Bubbar depictions of fora and fauna we have your vision in the semi-darkness and produced for over a decade. From fat Japan: A History of Style (8 March to enlightenment. Focusing on KOKON BIANNUAL a record of a kind of cultural cross- creating fantastic images in your to spatial, from visual to corporeal, 24 April). Te exhibition celebrates dramatic images, a worshipper Spring 2021 pollination, with the dual threads of mind’s eye. from intellectual to visceral, Nagare’s how gifts and acquisitions over the could frst evoke the subtle Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts the English botanical illustration, Tel +91 98303 28558, exuberant work expresses open- last decade have transformed the knowledge that Manjushri 11 to 20 March, and Zayn al-Din’s Mughal artistic akarprakar.com ended vistas, this time, literally in an museum’s ability to narrate the personifes, then with by appointment only and online training and masterful personal style. ‘In Between’ realm. story of Japanese art – both by Avalokiteshvara’s aid, it is possible A highlight of the Kokon Biannual Tel +44 207 499 6844, TEN THOUSAND 24 East 64th Street, NY 10065; expanding and deepening the range to proceed in a way free from this year is an ink-on-paper hanging francescagalloway.com FLOWERS for gallery hours, tel 212 268 7132, of artworks on display. Each of the self-imposed delusions, while scroll by Kano Motonobu (1476- Gold pectoral, Marangga, Sumba, Tai Modern miyakoyoshinaga.com 10 rooms that make up the Arts of Vajrapani’s transcendent power aids Paperweight with Maple Leaves and Bugaku Hat from Beneath the 1559) depicting a landscape and INDIAN WORKS Indonesia, 19th century, 28 x 18 cm, 11 to 20 March, online only Japan galleries features a distinct in destroying jealousy and hatred Autumn Leaves (Momiji no ga), Chapter 7 of The Tale of Genji, dating from the Muromachi- OF ART Susan Ollemans Tis exhibition pairs works of genre, school, or style, representing that stand in the way of porcelain with underglaze blue, hirado ware, second half of 18th century, Momoyama period, 15th-16th Kapoor Galleries Japanese bamboo art with fowers in Independents nearly every medium, from the enlightenment. Venerating these 4.4 x 18.1 cm. Gift of Mrs V Everit Macy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art century. Motonobu succeeded his 11 to 20 March, and evil and serve as a means to drive a nod to the long-standing father in the Kano school and Study of a bird, probably an Asian koel, by appointment only and online out devils and malevolent ghosts. relationship between the two. Early RONIN GALLERY developed a versatile style which was by Shaykh Zayn al-Din, from the Uma (Parvati) stands guard at Tis mask is thought to capture the masters created baskets with the 11 to 20 March, rooted in ink painting in the Chinese collection of Lady Impey, Calcutta, Kapoor Galleries. Tis striking 11th- character of a wise but strong leader; understanding that they would most by appointment only and online RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART manner, but more suited to the of 1777, opaque watercolour on paper, 12th century Chola bronze deity it comes from an old French often be displayed with fowers. A Tis show explores the theatrical world brighter colours. Its infuence lasted folio 48.5 x 60.5 cm, from Tamil Nadu, is representative collection and is one of the fnest familiarity with the principles of of Kokei Tsuruya in Kokei Tsuryuya: At the Rubin, a new exhibition refecting our fragmented, 18th-century mandala consort Vajravetali), who for centuries and became the Francesca Galloway of the most important of South known. fower arranging was essential to the Modern Master of Kabuki Prints. Born in entitled Awaken: A Tibetan overstimulated contemporary painting, which is a map to the symbolise the union of dominant style in Japanese painting. Indian Hindu temple images; it is Tel 415 378 0716, tmurrayarts.com bamboo artist working 150 years ago. 1946, Kokei Tsuruya holds a unique Buddhist Journey Toward world. It echoes the main idea realm of wisdom’s wrathful apparent opposites and two 17 East 71st Street #4, NY 10021; featuring a multi-coloured bird in part of a ‘Somaskanda’ image which Today, when a bamboo artist creates place among Japan’s contemporary Enlightenment opens on 12 in Tsherin Sherpa’s abstracted emanation, used as a visual aid qualities necessary for for gallery hours tel 212 744 5577. fight approaching a blossoming describes the divine family RECENT a fower basket, they do not woodblock print artists. Emotionally March. Organised by the painting Luxation 1 (2016), in contemplation; as well as a enlightenment: wisdom and branch and a cypress tree. Originally constituted by Shiva, Parvati, and ACQUISITIONS OF necessarily expect that it will be used charged, bold and vividly rendered, his Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, which presents a split, 15th-century painting of the compassion. THE SCHOLAR’S part of a larger composition inspired Skanda. Te present fgure of Parvati, ASIAN JEWELLERY to hold fowers. However, the kabuki portraits blend the spirit of this travelling exhibition guides incomplete view of a deity. Secret Union Rubin Museum of Art, STUDY by the natural world, the tile scene or ‘Uma’ in the native language of 11 to 20 March, online only importance of functionality and ukiyo-e with a distinctly modern angle. visitors on a journey toward From the start, the exhibition deities (Guhyasamaja with rubinmuseum.org Sarangbang was used to decorate the walls of Tamil Nadu, seated in the posture of Susan Ollemans relevance of ikebana is a matter of With expressive faces and exaggerated Mandala of enlightenment, showcasing the points to a central question: HK Art & Antiques palaces and houses of the nobles in royal ease, belonged to a group of Tis online show at Susan Ollemans active debate, and each individual gestures, contemporary stars of the Vajrabhairav, power of Tibetan Buddhist art Are we truly awake? Or are 11 to 20 March, Isfahan, a city known for its Perso– three portable bronze images includes a 19th-century gold pectoral artist has a slightly diferent stance. kabuki stage bloom from the artist’s Ngor Monastery, to focus and refne awareness, we blind to the true nature of by appointment only and online Islamic architecture, with its grand essential to worship within each from Sumba, Indonesia. Made from Tel 505 984 1387, imagination, bold against delicate sheets Tibet, 1650-1750, and highlighting the reality and destined to sufer? On show in the gallery is a late 19th- boulevards, covered bridges, palaces, South Indian temple. Te bronze a single rod of gold, it was hammered taimodern.com of ganpi paper. As Kokei found colours on cotton, inextricable relationship As a way out of the chaos, the century inkstone case, or yeonsang, tiled mosques, and minarets. fgure is also processional, as out into two triangular fanges. Tis inspiration in the actor prints of the Edo 41.9 x 40 cm, between artistic endeavour and show presents a path of and a good example of the wood Tel 415 690 9077, indicated by the holes ft for poles piece would have been part of a IN BETWEEN period, he reinvigorated the symbiotic The Avery Brundage spiritual practice in Tibetan transformation facilitated by furniture used in a Sarangbang, a artpassages.com enabling worshippers to carry the nobleman’s treasury and exposed to Manika Nagare relationship between the woodblock Collection, Asian Art Buddhism. Featured works Tibetan Buddhist art in which scholar’s study. In the Joseon dynasty, divine fgures into the streets for all daylight only for ritual purposes and Miyako Yoshinaga print and the kabuki theatre through his Museum of date from the 7th and 21st the practitioner progresses the study was a multifunctional THE ABUNDANCE to experience darshan. Ring to book under the guidance of a priest. 11 to 20 March, 22-year partnership with Kabuki-za, San Francisco centuries, including stone, toward awareness and room in the men’s quarters of an elite OF NATURE an appointment and gallery hours. Tel +44 7775 566 356, by appointment only and online Tokyo’s premier kabuki theatre. wood, and metal sculptures, enlightenment with the help home. Made of persimmon wood, Prahlad Bubbar, 34 East 67th Street, NY 10065. ollemans.com First-time participant, Miyako Between 1978 and 2000, Kokei traditional Tibetan hanging from a guide, allies, and a Asian Art Sale this inkstone case was used to store 11 to 20 March, online only For gallery hours, tel 212 794 2300, Yoshinaga, presents a solo exhibition produced around 12 limited edition scroll paintings, illuminated map. important scholar’s objects: inkstone, Prahlad Bubbar is presenting a series kapoorgalleries.com ARMS AND ARMOUR by Tokyo-based Manika Nagare (b designs annually, each sold during the manuscript pages, and vibrant Other highlights in the 25 March 2021 ink stick, brush, and paper, known of outstanding works from the Runjeet Singh 1979). In these works, Nagare strives production of the play depicted. Kokei contemporary pieces drawn exhibition include a 9th- to collectively as the ‘Four Friends’. Persian, Indian, and Himalayan INDIAN PAINTINGS 11 to 20 March, online only to release her complex emotions completed each print from start to fnish largely from the collections of 10th-century stone sculpture Asian Art Online Only 49 East 78th Street, NY 100065. worlds, all connected to nature. Te Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Made as a unique commission for a much like nature fows in an – designing, carving, inking, printing, the Rubin Museum of Art, from eastern India of the For gallery hours tel 646 559 0231, exhibition, Te Abundance of Nature, 11 to 20 March, online only person of importance and taste, a irreversible order. Her dramatic use and, ultimately, destroying each block Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, seated Buddha at the moment 22 March 2021 heakyumart.com refects the innate generosity and Among the notable Indian paintings 17th-century Khatamkari dagger of unmixed colours such as orange, himself. In 2019, the Pacifc Asia Luxation 1 (2016) and Asian Art Museum of San of his awakening; a regenerative power of nature, seen as in this show is Rustam before Kai from the Ottoman Empire is one of pink, green, and blue brightens and Museum at the University of Southern by Tsherin Sherpa Francisco. monumental, fearsome Indian, Islamic, & a quiet observer in all these works. Kavus Having Knocked down Tus, a the works of Asian and Islamic arms darkens each space like fre and ice. California held the retrospective (b 1968, Nepal), Designed as an introduction 500-year-old sculpture of the Within the various tableaux we folio from a Shahnama, circa 1610, a and armour on view at Runjeet Her biomorphic lines fow with Tsuruya Kokei: Modern Kabuki Prints acrylic on 16 to the central teachings of Destroyer of Death Southeast Asian Art observe contrasting narratives rare survivor from the court of Singh’s online ofering. Te carved smooth but unpredictable rhythm Revised & Revisited. stretched cotton Tibetan Buddhism, visitors (Vajrabhairava), who informed by various movements and Ibrahim Adil Shah II (1571-1627), wooden handle and case is inlaid like water. Her brushstrokes on 32 W 40th St, New York, NY 10018. canvases, each progress through 10 milestones symbolises the overcoming of ISLAMIC WORKS art schools. Present in all these works the ffth sultan of Bijapur, who was a with gold, mother of pearl, ebony canvas are as light as a feather For gallery hours, tel 212 688 0188, 45.7 x 45.7 cm, on the journey from the chaos our deepest fears; a faming OF ART is the enveloping power of nature as great patron of music and painting. and ivory. Khatamkari refers to a caressing skin. In Nagare’s painting, roningallery.com Adolph D and of ordinary life to the skull trident from 18th- Art Passages, it makes it restorative force felt and Another highlight is a Portrait of a technique that originated in Persia, all these evocative elements coexist Wilkins C Williams awakened states of awareness. century Tibet of a guardian 11 to 20 March, online only remains the ultimate arbiter of time Stallion from Kishangarh, circa 1740. most probably Shiraz and Isfahan, organically as in nature itself. Fund, Virginia At the entrance, visitors deity held in triumph over A Safavid period tile, circa 17th and destiny. Kishangarh is one of the most and travelled throughout the Middle Furthermore, she conceives her Museum of Fine Arts encounter a video collage death; an intricate 17th- to century, at Art Passages’ online Tel +44 207 494 3144, intriguing of the desert courts of East and India. painting as a two-way mirror to exhibition is illustrated with a scene prahladbubbar.com Rajasthan and is this fne drawing of Tel +447866 424 803, invite the viewer to become a stallion, short-headed and powerful runjeetsingh.com immersed in the painted image. Tis INDIAN WORKS of neck, whose court artists were at efort has been evidenced especially JAPAN SOCIETY GALLERY OF ART their zenith in the mid-18th century. Francesca Galloway Tel +44 207 839 0386, Contemporary On the occasion of the 50th anniversary consummate experience, knowledge and 11 to 20 March, online only forgelynch.com of the opening of Japan Society’s iconic the honed skills of master carpenters, In all its depth and range, Indian art JAYASHREE building in Manhattan, When Practice have been transformed into signifcant always has the ability to evoke ASIATICA/ CHAKRAVA RTY Becomes Form: Carpentry Tools from Japan built forms. Master carpenters’ (toryo) wonder and curiosity, whether it was ETHNOGRAPHICA Akar Prakar (from 11 March to 11 July), celebrates the extensive knowledge of the local made for an Emperor, or for a whole Thomas Murray 11 to 20 March, online only spirit of architecture and craftsmanship environment and of wood as a material is village. On ofer are an array of 11 to 20 March, online only Route Map of Experience (2003) by through Japanese woodworking tools, integral to their craft. Using natural textiles, objects and paintings that Tomas Murray is ofering a 19th- Jayashree Chakravarty is a patterns and models. Featuring a diverse resources, and practices and tools handed Including Art from the convey this inventiveness and early 20th-century Nuo mask of a monumental work in two parts, one Unfoldings: The Route Map of array of hand tools from planes, axes, down over generations, they construct diversity. Te show incorporates wise leader, from southwest China. measuring 10.5 ½ x 41 feet and the Experience (2003) by Jayashree saws, it also explores joinery techniques buildings using a refned methodology. Meiji Period from a Swiss works made for or infuenced by Rooted in a shamanic/animistic other 10.5 x 14.5 feet. Chakravarty Chakravarty, textile, Nepali paper, that have been used to build Japan’s Exploring the coexistence of nature and Private Collection A Bird and Blossoms, stonepaste foreign markets, for the Rajasthani tradition dating back thousands of creates immersive painted tissue, brown paper, pigment, acrylic wooden architectural masterpieces for design, the show emphasises an enduring tile with polychrome glaze, princely courts, and to entertain and years and preserved in remote installations, comprising great, paint, glue, tea and coffee stain. hundreds of years. From temples and connection between traditional Japanese in cuerda seca technique, Safavid, Installation in Kiran Nadar museum of Onoe Shoroku II as Kudo Suketsune celebrate the traditions of ordinary mountains by the tribal minorities of supple, and shape-shifting walls of shrines to tea houses and bridge, the wooden construction and modern www.schulerauktionen.ch Isfahan, Iran, circa 17th century, Art, New Delhi. Courtesy: Jayashree (1989) by Tsuruya Kokei, woodblock crafts people. A highlight is a this region, the dramas feature heroic rice paper, tissues, fabric and brown exhibition unpacks how the intangible architecture. Zurich - Switzerland 9 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches, Art Passages painting from the Impey Album, battles between the forces of good paper. In them, she arrests feeting Chakravarty, Akar Prakar print, Ronin Gallery qualities of making, such as the Japan Society Gallery, japansociety.org

distinguished group of works include an Imperial Qianlong period white and russet jade brushpot from the Woodward Collection and a group of LONDON AUCTION ASIA WEEK NEW YORK cloisonné enamels from the Samuel P Avery Collection, led by a ‘bats and clouds’ cloisonné enamel vase. SOTHEBY’S A highlight from the Important Blue and white lobed ‘fruit and flower’ 24 March, London March 2021 Sales Chinese Art sale is a blue and white bowl, Xuande mark and period, lobed ‘fruit and fower’ bowl, Xuande est US$200-300,000, Sotheby’s Te Newhouse sale of the mark and period, estimated at 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Bonhams the Nyingjei Lam Collection and has Hexagonal huanghuali US$200-300,000. Fruit and fower Burma includes a number of been on loan to the Rubin Museum incense stand, xiangji, sprays symbolising prosperity were Chinese and Indian lots. Bonhams are holding three sales over the past 15 years. Other 17th century, popular designs of the early Ming Lady Mountbatten inherited during Asia Week: Chinese Works highlights include sculpture from the height 88.9 cm, dynasty (1368-1644). Bowls of this her grandfather’s jade of Art and Paintings on 15 March; Siddharth K Bhansali Collection, Yunwai Lou Collection, lobed form appear to be specifc to Untitled (1962) collection, the collector Indian, Himalayan & Southeast including a gilt-copper alloy fgure of est US$800,000- the Xuande reign (1426-1435) and by Vasudeo S Gaitonde, oil on canvas, Sir Ernest Cassel (1852-1921), Asian Art on 16 March; and Fine Lokeshvara Padmapani from Nepal, $1.2 million, Christie’s became part of the classic repertoire 86.3 x 76.2 cm, The Robert And and a number of the jades are Japanese and Korean Art on 17 12th/13th century (est US$100- of the ofcial kilns. Ruth Marshak Collection, est included in this sale, including Pale celadon jade marriage bowl, March. 150,000). Also on ofer is a gilt- Grey schist figure of Sotheby’s online oferings include US$800,000-$1.2 million, Sotheby’s a white jade carved fgure of a Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, Te Chinese sale includes lots copper alloy and repoussé shrine of Shakyamuni Buddha, gilt-bronze sculptures from the Jane Buddhistic lion. From India, est £15-25,000, Sotheby’s from several American private Manjuvajra from Nepal, from the Gandhara, and Leopold Swergold Collection, there is an Anglo-Indian collections, led by the Ming and 17th/18th century (est US$130- 3rd/4th century, which documents the spread of inlaid miniature bureau (est £40-60,000). Tere is a Qing lacquer wares from Te 180,000). Te distinct shrine invokes height 175 cm, Buddhism when the Silk Road mounted on a mahogany stand, preview from 20 to 23 March in Collection of Robert W Moore. Manjuvajra, an esoteric form of est US$1.5-2.5 million, opened up a channel to foreign originally supplied by London. Please check that the Among the highlights is a 15th/16th- Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Christie’s infuences and enabled the Tomas Chippendale to exhibition will not be afected by century Ming mother-of-pearl and Transcendent Wisdom. dissemination of Buddhism and its Sir Edward Knatchbull in 1767 Covid 19 regulations. black lacquer octagonal tray, Te Fine Japanese and Korean Art deep artistic traditions into China. decorated with a courtly scene of sale comprises approximately 180 Te second online sale, running from fgures at a lakeside pavilion (est Japanese and Korean lots, led by a 12 to 24 March, is Te Hundred US$25-35,000). Lots from other 10th-century, Heian period (764- Luboshez Gong (est US$4-6 Antiques: Fine & Decorative Asian White and russet jade brushpot, Lone Vigil (1989) by Jehangir private collections include sculptures 1158) lacquered wood sculpture of million), an important bronze ritual Art and comprises over 190 Chinese, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, Sabavala, oil on canvas, from the estate of Marilynn B Amida Buddha (est US$100- wine vessel that dates to the Japanese, Korean, Indian, and height 18.7 cm, from the Woodward 39 1/8 in x 58 ¾ in, Alsdorf, a highlight being a black 150,000). An unusual highlight is a 13th/12th century BC, the vessel Himalayan works of art and Collection, est US$1-1.5 million, est US$450-650,000, Sotheby’s stone cross-legged fgure of Maitreya model of a celestial musician from the combines a pouncing tiger with a paintings. Sotheby’s that dates to the Northern Wei Gilt-copper alloy figure of Lokeshvara Horyuji temple (est US$35-50,000). standing owl forming a powerful, dynasty (386-398), has an estimate of Padmapani from Nepal, 12th/13th Tis fgure is believed to have been fantastic creature. Also of special Doyle US$70-100,000. Ceramics from the century, est US$100-150,000, attached to the rim of an elaborate interest is a ritual wine vessel with 9th century through late Qing, Bonhams jewelled canopy of one of the three cover, fangyi, a distinctive rectangular Asian Works of Art ,on 15 March, include a cream-glazed ingot- important statues in the Golden Hall shape with elegantly tapered sides is ofering a wide range of lots shaped pillow with an Imperial of Horyuji Temple, Nara – Japan’s and a delicately rounded lid, is boldly including the arts of China, Qianlong inscription from the frst UNESCO World Heritage site. decorated with striking taotie masks, Japan, and Southeast Asia, dating White jade model of a Buddhistic Anglo-Indian rosewood and ivory Rosalind Ching Pastor Collection In the Korean section, there is a fanked by a pair of long-tailed birds from the Neolithic period through lion, Qing dynasty, 18th century, inlaid table bureau on a mahogany (est US$50-70,000). Also on ofer good selection of ceramics from a and confronting dragons divided by the 20th century. Showcased are 11.4 cm long, formerly in the stand, bureau from Vizagapatam, are a group of archaic jade ‘animal’ private Japanese collection formed in The Luboshez Gong, bronze ritual wine subtle fanges (est US$600-800,000). bronzes, jades, snuf bottles, collection of Sir Ernest Cassel circa 1740-50, stand London 1767, carvings from the Shang dynasty the early 20th century, including a vessel and cover, late Shang dynasty, Lots in the South Asian Modern + porcelains, pottery, scholar’s objects (est. £15-25,000), height 87.5 cm, est £40-60,000, through Han dynasty from the estate carved white porcelain brush pot (est Anyang, 13th-12th century BC, Contemporary sale includes works Pair of imperial Chinese porcelain ‘Dragon’ bowls, Qianlong seal marks and paintings from private Sotheby’s Sotheby’s of Robert Youngman, including a US$40-50,000), decorated with est US$4 to 6 million, Christie’s by Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009), Krishen in underglaze blue and of the period, est $8-12,000, Doyle collections and estates. russet jade Shang bear (est US$30- symbols of longevity: deer, cranes, Khanna (b 1925), FN Souza (1924- 50,000). bamboo and pine and a painting of estimate of US$1.5-2.5 million. Te 2002) and MF Husain (1915-2011). A highlight of the Indian, Yeongsan Assembly (Vulture Peak) (est other fgures is a grey schist Figure of Top lots are Untitled (Confdant), a Himalaya, and Southeast Asian Art US$7-9,000), which features the a Donor, 3rd/4th century, height 175 1962 oil on canvas by Tyeb Mehta sale is a brass fgure of Vajravarahi historical Buddha preaching the cm (est US$800-$1.2 million). Other (est 600-800,000) and Family, an oil from Northeastern India, dating Lotus Sutra to his disciples. sculptures on ofer include a bronze on card laid on board by FN Souza from the Pala period, circa fgure of Sambandar from South (est US$450-600,000). 11th century (estimate: US$400- India, Chola period, 12th/13th 600,000). Possibly one of the earliest White porcelain brush holder Joseon Christie’s century (est US$700-900,000) and a known bronze sculptures of dynasty (1392 to 1897), 19th century, gilt-bronze fgure of a lama from Sotheby’s Vajravarahi, the fgure comes from est US$40-50,000, Bonhams Christie’s oferings for Asia week Tibet, 14th/15th century (est include Japanese and Korean Art on US$150-200,000). At Sotheby’s there is Modern & Cizhou green-glazed and 16 March; Indian, Himalayan and In the painting lots, a 19th-century Contemporary South Asian Art on iron-black-brown-painted Southeast Asian Works of Art; and illustration from the ‘Lambagraon’ 16 March, with the preview running and incised ‘peony’ South Asian Modern + Gita Govinda series, Punjab Hills, from 11 to 15 March. On 17 March baluster vase, Northern Contemporary Art on 17 March; Kangra, attributed to Purkhu, or his there is Imperial Cloisonné & Jade Song-Jin dynasty, Important Chinese Art from the circle, has an estimate of US$150- and Chinese Art from the Brooklyn 12th century, Junkunc Collection and Shang: 200,000. Museum with previews running Guantai Kiln, Cixian, Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes from Modern paintings in the Japanese from 11 to 16 March Hebei Province, the Daniel Shapiro Collection, both & Korean Art sale include a work by Important Chinese Works of Art I Bonhams on 18 March; and an Important Inoue Yuichi (1916-1985), Tsuki and II is scheduled for 17 March Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art (Moon), with an estimate of US$30- with the preview from 11 to 16 Important model of on 19 March. Tere is an online only 60,000. Iroha Uta (Hiragana March. Te online sale is Te a Celestial Musician sale of South Asian Modern + Syllabary Poem) by Serizawa Keisuke Hundred Antiques: Fine & from the Horyuji Temple, Contemporary Art running from (1895-1984) is estimated at US$40- Decorative Asian Art, which runs Asuka period 4 to 18 March. 60,000, and a work by Toko Shinoda from 12 to 24 March. (538-710), 7th century, Highlights from the Chinse sale (b 1913), Sonority (1988), has an Highlights from the Modern and est US$35-50,000, include a large lacquered and gilt estimate of US$30-40,000. In the Contemporary South Asian Art sale Bonhams wood seated fgure of Manjushri ukiyo-e lots, Under the Wall of the include a Vasudeo S Gaitonde from the Kangxi period (1662-1722), Great Wave of Kanagawa by Untitled, oil on canvas, from 1962. It estimated at US$300-500,000. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is has been in the Robert and Ruth From the ceramics section, there is a the top lot, with an estimate of Marshak Collection for almost 60 coper-red decorated ‘Dragon’ vase, US$§150-200,000. years and is coming to auction for the sanxuanping, Kangxi six-character From the Shapiro Collection of frst time this March. Te estimate is mark and of the period, from a Shang bronzes, the highlight is the US$800,000 to US$1.2 million. An private American collection (est untitled work by MF Husain US$450-650,000) and a famille-rose depicting the artist’s two most landscape vase, Jiaqing period (1796- enduring and powerful motifs: the 1820), six character seal mark and of horse and the female nude dates from the period (est US$200-300,000). the early 1960s and has an estimate of

From the Yuwai Lou Collection, US$150-200,000. Lone Vigil (1989) LEAD PARTNER STRATEGIC PARTNER there is a hexagonal, huanghuali, by Jehangir Sabavala, another well- incense stand, xiangji, from the 17th collected artist is an oil on canvas century (est US$800-$1.2 million). estimated at US$450-650,000. From the Indian, Himalayan, and Leading the Chinese auctions sales Southeast Asian auction there are is a selection of imperial jades and two large Gandharan fgures, Untitled (Conﬁdant) by Tyeb Mehta cloisonné enamels produced during including a grey schist fgure of (1925-2009), oil on canvas, the Ming and Qing dynasties from A mother-of-pearl inlaid black lacquer, bao luodian, octagonal oblong tray, Buddha Shakyamuni, 3rd/4th 101.6 x 126.4 cm, from 1962, the Brooklyn Museum, sold to Ming dynasty, est US$25-35,000, Bonhams century, height 175 cm, with an est US$600-800,000, Christie’s support museum collections. Tis