More than 2,400 lots with an estimated value of HK$950 million will be offered at Sotheby's autumn sales starting tomorrow at the Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Collections will be publicly displayed until next Wednesday, with auctions running until Thursday.
Hong Kong auction items aside, highlights from Sotheby's New York impressionist, modern and contemporary art auctions will also be shown, with works from Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley, and important jewels from Sotheby's New York and Geneva.
Sure to please will be Sotheby's sale of contemporary Asian art on Tuesday. Tuesday's event will also include a selection of 20th-century Chinese works.
Japanese contemporary artist Yoshitomo Nara's It's Everything is expected to bring between HK$3.8 million and HK$5 million. It is the largest of the artist's work ever to be auctioned - a rare specimen using the medium of wooden panels. Depicting a guitar-playing child, last year's piece reflects Nara's love of punk rock. Despite being young, Nara's protagonists always appear wise beyond their years. They sense what the world has in store for them and are ready to tackle the trials of growing up.
Closer to home, a work by the late Tsang Tsou-choi, an acclaimed local graffiti and calligraphy artist, is expected to bring between HK$50,000 and HK$70,000. Calligraphy is exceptional because of its large size and the artist's hallmark inscription of his family genealogy and personal history as an 'emperor in exile'.
Local photographer Simon Go's Hong Kong Old Shops: Wing Wo Grocery & Keng Ming Mirror Shop is expected to fetch between HK$30,000 and HK$50,000. Executed in 2007, the scenes portray the owners of the two shops against the backdrop of their stores.