“The energy and traffic was considerably greater than 2012, which was already a strong year for us,” said Suneet Kapoor of the Kapoor Galleries in New York. “I noticed some new museums visiting, which have not done so in the past, such as the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Korean National Museum, as well as the regulars such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Newark Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Dallas Museum of Art and some of the University Museums: Lowe Museum at the University of Miami, Smart Museum at University of Chicago, Yale University Art Gallery. We also noticed an uptick in European collectors as well, on the rise over the past two years, reinforcing New York as a premier destination for Asian art.”

Many happy comments from sellers at Asia Week NY 2013

“I had a record-breaking week which surpassed all my expectations,” said Joan B. Mirviss of her eponymous gallery. “The responses from both the museum world and the savvy collectors have been astonishing.”

James Lally of J. J. Lally & Co. in New York said: “Our special exhibition of Song Dynasty Ceramics was very well received… The number of serious collectors and curators and Asian art aficionados passing through our gallery during Asia Week 2013 was significantly higher than last year.”

Erik Schiess of the Portland, Oregon-based Jadestone, reported that he developed new relationships and met new museum clients as well. “We sold most of our top items. Approximately 2/3 of the sales were to mainland Chinese buyers and the rest were to European and American clients.”

“The energy and enthusiasm is more intense than last year,” said Katherine Martin of Scholten Japanese Art in New York. “I had visitors almost non-stop throughout the week.”

“We had an amazing week selling more items this year than ever before,” said Michael C. Hughes from New York.

Brendan Lynch, of the London-based Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch, reported that a number of institutions bought and reserved Indian miniature paintings, including The British Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. “We had more curators returning to visit than for the past two years with our private buyers from America and Europe,” said Lynch.

“I was delighted to see hundreds of past, current and future clients, as well as academics and museum curators from all over the country take great interest in the exhibition and catalog.” said Eric Zetterquist of Zetterquist Galleries, in New York.

“The response to my show has been enormous and extremely positive,” said first-time participant Dr. Robert R. Bigler, from Ruschlikon, Switzerland.

“We had one of the best Asia Weeks in years with sales across the board from $7,500 to over $3M,” said Carlton Rochell, whose gallery is based in New York.

“I was very impressed with the energy of this year’s Asia Week New York,” said Carlo Cristi. “There were many more international visitors than in the past.”

Marsha Vargas, of the Xanadu Gallery in San Francisco, was “very pleased with the comments and requests from several museums.”

New York contemporary Chinese painting specialist Martha Sutherland reported that two Hsia I-fu ink monochrome landscapes were sold, “with many other sales from American museums.”

John Siudmak, from London, explained that “this was a very good year, with more museum curators visiting the gallery than in prior seasons.”

Next Asia Week New York will be held March 14 through 22, 2014.

Images courtesy of Marylin White.

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