OAKLAND, Calif. – Clars Auction Gallery will offer a fine selection of Asian art and objects on Sunday, April 24. The sale will include Chinese antique porcelains, jade and stone carvings, furniture, Chinese paintings, embroidered works and other categories of Asian art. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

A Dingyao bowl featuring lotus and other aquatic plants along with a double-fish medallion, estimated at $50,000-$70,000, will headline the auction. The Song dynasty bowl was acquired from the late Chingwah Lee collection of San Francisco sold at Sotheby’s Los Angeles Fine Oriental Art Sale on June 8, 1981. A fine example of Chinese monochromes is the Qianlong mark and period celadon-glazed and carved vase displaying overlapping lotus petals throughout. Another Qing Imperial porcelain of interest is the Guangxu mark and period famille rose Three Rams bowl, which has four medallions each depicting the Three Rams against a lemon-yellow sgraffito ground. It is estimated at $5,000-$7,000.

The furniture portion will feature a huanghuali altar coffer dated to the late Qing to Republic period. The wide single panel top is flanked by a pair of everted flanges above three drawers with white brass hardware, atop a coffer cabinet with a pair of hinged double doors. The simplistic design exemplifies the rich and attractive huanghuali wood grain. Its estimate is $20,000-$40,000.

Another highlight of the sale is an ink on paper hanging scroll by Wu Changshuo (Chinese, 1844-1927), estimated at $50,000-$70,000. The ink painting depicting plum blossoms is extensively inscribed by the artist and dated to 1915. The painting is a perfect example of the artist’s masterful utilization of dry and wet brush techniques to illustrate the strength of the branches and the depth of the scene. This painting was acquired in Shanghai prior to 1945, and this is the first time that it has been offered for sale at auction.

Clars’s fine art department is excited to offer the first printings of Girl with Candy by Ukrainian photographer Oleksii Kyrychenko, estimated at $1,000-$2,000. Kyrychenko gained recognition on social media after uploading the photo of his young daughter, shown holding an unloaded double barrel rifle with a lollipop stick jutting from her mouth, just days before Ukraine was attacked by Russian forces. Kyrychenko has requested that half of the proceeds be donated to Come Back Alive, a non-governmental organization helping the Ukrainian military by supplying troops with technical support and medical aid.

The prints and multiples portion of the sale features twinned works by Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939), together estimated at $6,000-$9,000. Titled Tetes Byzantines, the lot will include both the Brunette and the Blonde profiles printed on the original 1897 round paper. The two images became popular at the turn of the century and were printed numerous times in different variants as advertisements and souvenirs.

The auction lineup will also include two prints by Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, b. 1929-): Grapes, a screenprint from 1982, and Shoes, a lithograph from 1984, each estimated at $10,000-$15,000. Kusama emerged onto the art scene in the 1960s in New York, collaborating with Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenberg and Robert Morris and contributing to the rise of feminism and pop art. In 2017, she opened the Yayoi Kusama Museum in Tokyo near her studio and the psychiatric hospital where she has voluntarily lived since 1977. Through her work, Kusama has explored such themes as her own obsessive-compulsive disorder, hallucinations, sexuality and freedom. Grapes and Shoes exhibit Kusama’s signature style, featuring polka dots and nets in dense patterns with obsessive repetition.

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