Three main New York auction houses – Bonhams, Sotheby’s and Christie’s – are all offering dedicated sales of classic early Indian, Himalayan and south-east Asian sculpture and works of art (and in Sotheby’s case an extra sale of painting by Indian artists of the modern era).
Bonhams is augmenting its selection with a separate single-owner auction titled Portraits of the Masters.
This features 108 Tibetan bronze sculptures headed by a 9in (23cm) high 13th century gilt copper alloy figure of Drigunga Jigten Sumgon Rinchen pel (1143-1217), above right, estimated at $250,000-350,000.