The British Museum’s big summer exhibition on Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai is over, but more art from the Land of the Rising Sun is in the offing (also see International Events, p39).
Lyon & Turnbull is among a clutch of auction houses to kick off the Asian art season this September. The Edinburgh saleroom will offer more than 50 lots of Japanese ceramics, ivory, lacquer and metal work from the collection of Hugh Malcolm (1886-1961).
From 1913-36, Malcolm lived in the Japanese cities of Kobe and Yokohama, where he worked for Shell (then known as the Rising Sun Petroleum Company), becoming managing director in 1924.