NEW YORK
Christie’s Asian Art Week series (September 22–October 1), spanning eight live sales of art and antiques, achieved a total of USD 82.8 million, doubling the USD 41.64 million total from the six sales in September 2019. The dedicated 2020 sale of South Asian art from the renowned Jane and Kito de Boer Collection raised USD 3.56 million over 68 lots. The sale was led by Rameshwar Broota’s monochromatic painting of abstracted architectural forms, Silent Structures (1991), which surpassed a high estimate of USD 300,000 to fetch USD 525,000. His painting of a gray-toned faceless figure, The Last Chapter (1982), made USD 287,500, within estimates. Bengal School painter Ganesh Pyne’s The Animal (1972), of a skeletal quadruped, more than doubled its USD 150,000 high estimate and earned USD 400,000.…