Amedeo Modigliani's Paulette Jourdain

With many seminal masterpieces housed within the collection, from Léonard Tsugouharu Foujita to René Magritte to David Hockney, it is as if a history of the 20th century were being charted across the canvases of this collection.

20th Century Visionaries

This sale includes extraordinary examples of 20th and 21st Century abstract painting from both Eastern and Western Masters.

Masterpeices of Eastern and Western Abstraction from the 20th and 21st century

Abstraction 

At the forefront of Asia’s thriving creative landscape, Liu and Wang have consistently promoted both local and global trailblazers with a unique understanding of the role of taste-making in the 21st century. Led by a restless eye and an irrepressible curiosity, the collection of Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei exudes temptation, these culturally impactful works following those individuals who embody the sentiment of their respective ages. There is an acute sense of dialogue at play, with each work serving as a prism through which to observe and examine visual cultures spanning the ancient to the modern, and heralding from every part of the world. Meeting and colliding and emerging anew, this collection details just a small part of a much bigger story, a story which will continue to be told within the Long Museum and beyond.

With a propensity for forward thinking and an eye for innovation, the last thirty years of collecting have seen some of the most coveted artists working today housed within the collection of Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei.

Coveted Contemporary

At the forefront of Asia’s thriving creative landscape, Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei have consistently promoted both local and global trailblazers with a unique understanding of the role of taste-making in the 21st century.

Pioneering Chinese Contemporary

Japanese Contemporary Icons 

Behind The Long Journey

Hong Kong

Senior Director | Chairman, Modern & Contemporary Art, Asia

Alex Branczik

VP | Head of Contemporary Art Sales, Asia

Max Moore

AVP | Senior Specialist, Head of Evening Sale

Shea Lam

AVP | Head of Day and Online Sales

Florence Ho

Specialist

Debby Yip

Fiona Leung

Junior Specialist/ Cataloguer

Laura McKeown

Researcher/ Writer

Niamh Cullinane

Junior Specialist & Cataloguer

Leanne Hong

Cristina Wang

VP | Head of Department

Felix Kwok

AVP | Senior Specialist

Rishika Assomull

Michelle Yaw

AVP | Specialist

Jestina Tang

Junior Specialist

Gabe Chan

Sylvia Cheung

Cataloguer

Ruby Yang

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Dedicated to a diversity of visual arts – Western and Eastern, ancient and contemporary – Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei first began collecting over thirty years ago with a singular vision to build a museum that would leave no part of art and cultural history untouched. Established in 2012, the Long Museum has since become a source of inspiration throughout Asia with a legacy that resists categorisation. The cumulative endeavours of a life lived in pursuit of artistic excellence, the collection is exceptionally diverse and entirely eclectic in style, provenance, genre and content. Pioneering in scope and exhilaratingly ambitious, the journey of the Long Museum has found Liu and Wang at the centre of a particular moment in history, their encyclopaedic collection affording a truly global artistic education whilst strengthening local cultural roots as one of the most significant public institutions in China. Creating a passage between visionaries and innovators that transcends temporal and spatial boundaries, Liu and Wang’s collection has connected the lives and works of history’s most iconic artists.

A Long Journey: A Selection from the Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei Collection