New York Auction Previews 19


Hardstone-inlaid gilt copper figure of Padmapani, Nepal, 13th/14th century, height 22.7 cm, est $250-500,000, Sotheby’s


Blue and white Ming-style ‘flower’ vase, mark and period of Yongzheng, est $400-600,000, Sotheby’s


Guan lobed dish, Southern Song dynasty, est $1.2 to 1.8 million, Sotheby’s


Huanghuali trestle-leg altar table (qiaotou’an), late Ming dynasty, 17th century, est $200-400,000, Sotheby’s


Second Act (1958) by Maqbool Fida Husain (1913-2011), oil on canvas, 121.9 x 190.2 cm, est $2.8 to 3.5 million, Sotheby’s


An inscribed silver and copper-inlaid copper alloy figure of Lowo Khenchen Sonam Lhundrup, Tibet, 16th century, height 19.1 cm, est $150-400,000, Sotheby’s


Huanghuali folding horseshoe-back armchair (jiaoyi), late Ming/early Qing dynasty, 17th century, est $1.2 to 2 million, Sotheby’s


Houses in Moonlight (1960) by Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002), oil on board, 76.5 x 60 cm, est $300-500,000, Sotheby’s


Huanghuali and huamu ‘fu character’ armchairs (sichutouguanmaoyi), late Ming/early Qing dynasty, 17th century, est $500-800,000, Sotheby’s


Sotheby’s


These Asian sales are the first held at the auction house’s new American headquarters after its move at the end of 2025.


24 March


Indian & Himalayan Art, including Property from the Zimmerman Family Collection


Tis sale, part of the inaugural Asian Art auctions at the Breuer Building, is led by an assemblage of Tibetan and Nepalese art from the Zimmerman Family Collection, considered one of the preeminent collections of Himalayan art in the US, and part of it forms the core of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Himalayan holdings. Jack and Muriel Zimmerman began collecting Tibetan and Nepalese art in 1964 and went on to become the foremost collectors of their generation.


25 March


Huanghuali for the Scholar’s Studio: An Important Private Collection of Classical Chinese Furniture


Comprising 14 works from the Ming and early Qing dynasties, the huanghuali furniture comes from a private collection. Te sale is led by a 17th-century folding horseshoe-back armchair (jiaoyi), formerly in the collection of Frederic Mueller and previously part of the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in Renaissance, California. With fewer than 30 examples of this form known to survive from the Ming dynasty, the folding horseshoe-back armchair is


one of the rarest and celebrated forms within the canon of classical Chinese furniture. Other highlights include a pair of 17th-century huanghuali and huamu ‘fu character’ armchairs (sichutouguanmaoyi), also formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture; a late Ming-dynasty huanghuali trestle-leg altar table (qiaotou’an); and a 17th-century huanghuali sedan chair from the esteemed collection of Robert and Alice Piccus.


25 March Chinese Art


Te inaugural Chinese Art auction at the Breuer building offers lots from early ritual bronzes to Qing imperial works of art.


Highlights include a group of Tang and Song ceramics from an American private collection, including a Song-dynasty Guanyao lobed dish formerly in the Frederick M Meyer Collection; a Xuande mark and period blue-and-white jar from the Chang Foundation; a dappled black-glazed bowing Ferghana horse from the Pritzker Collection, as well as an early Western-Zhou dynasty four-handled archaic bronze ritual food vessel from a Colorado family collection. Te sale also includes a selection of Ming and Qing porcelain, archaic bronzes, jades, lacquer wares, scholar objects, classical furniture, a group of ink rubbings from the Wu Family Shrine, and historical documents relating to the Xi’an Incident,


presented on the 90th anniversary of this pivotal moment in modern Chinese history.


26 March


Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art


Tis season’s Modern & Contemporary South Asian sale features paintings and works on paper from across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. Te sale is led by a seminal work by Maqbool Fida Husain, Second Act (1958),


Other Auctions 24 March Asian Works of Art, Doyle


25 March Asian Art Signature Auction, Heritage Auctions 27 March Asian Words of Art, Freeman’s


ASIAN ART | MARCH 2026


which is the most widely published and frequently exhibited work sold in this category at Sotheby’s. Other highlights include a


Francis Newton Souza published in Edwin Mullin’s F Souza monograph (1962), a Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar shown in the landmark Geneva show Coups de Coeur (1987), a KCS Paniker from the Words and Symbols series, plus works Vasudeo S Gaitonde, Jagdish Swaminathan, Ram Kumar, Bhupen Khakhar, Anwar Jalal Shemza, and Zainul Abedin.


Large blue and white ‘fruit and flower’ jar, mark and period of Xuande, est $1.5 to 1.8 million, Sotheby’s


Untitled (1964)– Words and Symbols – by KCS Paniker (1911-77), oil on canvas laid on mountboard, 76.8 x 102.2 cm, est $70-150,000, Sotheby’s


Thangka depicting the life of the Buddha, Tibet, 14th century, 73.4 x 86.4 cm, est $220-500,000, Sotheby’s


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