Phillips closed its Hong Kong autumn season on 30 September with two modern and contemporary art sales at its Asia headquarters in the West Kowloon Cultural District, totalling HK$94.47 million. The evening sale moved 15 of 16 lots for a 94 per cent sell-through rate and HK$52.65 million, while the day sale sold 92 of 117 lots at 79 per cent for HK$41.82 million. The evening was led by Gerhard Richter's 1983 "Abstraktes Bild (522-1)", which fetched HK$23.01 million. Painted at the height of the artist's celebrated "wild abstraction" phase, the work came directly from the collection of the influential curator Kasper König and had featured in the landmark retrospective "Gerhard Richter: Bilder 1962–1985" at the Kunstsammlung Düsseldorf and Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie before touring Europe. Second in the evening sale was Zao Wou-ki's 1951 "Sans titre (La Théière)", bought by the American publisher Harry Abrams straight from the artist and held by the family for over half a century. It sold for HK$11.09 million; the buyer also receives a two-night stay at Taipei's Capella hotel under Phillips' new "Living Art" partnership with the hotel group. Also notable were 六角彩子's 2013 "Untitled" at HK$3.35 million and strong results for two Zhang Peili works, including the triptych "Yellow Blue Red" at HK$1.81 million — 1.8 times its estimate. The day sale was topped by Yayoi Kusama's 1990 "Pumpkin" at HK$3.74 million, above its high estimate, while her 1998 "Nets" — fresh to auction — made HK$1.81 million. Marc Chagall's 1975 "Bouquet sur fond orange" doubled its low estimate at HK$3.61 million. A six-lot connoisseur sale, "Picasso's Forms of Fantasy", sold out entirely, well above estimates. Phillips China's Dina Zhang pointed to sustained demand for works with strong provenance and art-historical weight, while Hong Kong head Rebecca Hu highlighted the appeal of Western postwar masters and Japanese contemporary art — and confirmed a Japan-themed cross-category sale for December.