Art in Asia 2023: Contemporary Art

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Art in Asia 2023: Contemporary Art

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    Yoshitomo Nara, In the Milky Lake
    Leading our 50th Anniversary celebrations this Spring was the immediately captivating In the Milky Lake by Yoshitomo Nara. Sumptuous in scale, In the Milky Lake (2012) is a monumental example of Nara’s mature artistic output and features the most recognisable Nara heroine rendered in meticulous detail; the little girl in a green dress emerging from a pearlescent neutral background, her legs submerged in a rippling puddle. Fetching HK$100,555,000 as part of Sotheby's Hong Kong's Contemporary Evening Auction this April, In the Milky Lake was the most expensive work by the artist to have been sold at auction in 2023.
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  • Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild
    Leading our Autumn auctions was the spectacular Abstraktes Bild by Gerhard Richter. A masterwork from 1994 belonging to a series of works which, having debuted at the artist’s acclaimed Anthony d’Offay Gallery exhibition, now reside in prominent institutional collections around the world. Shimmering with emerald greens, sapphire blues and piercing reds, the iridescent Abstraktes Bild achieved HK$84,469,000 in October.
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  • Julie Mehretu, Untitled
    Also making headlings in our Autumn auctions was Julie Mehretu’s masterpiece Untitled (2001). The gravitas of her conceptual ideology coupled with the skill and dexterity of her mark-making, as magnificently exemplified by this work, have established Mehretu as a modern master and uniquely articulate voice of a socially, culturally, and politically wary generation. Establishing the artist's world record at the time, Untitled achieved a staggering HK$72,979,000.
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