Poly Auction Hong Kong has opened its Autumn Auctions 2026 to public preview at Six Pacific Place, with viewings running 2–4 October ahead of the sales on 5–7 October. Announced on 3 October, the season is positioned as a headline moment of the autumn calendar, gathering four departments — modern and contemporary art, Chinese ceramics and works of art, Chinese paintings and calligraphy, and jewels and watches — into a single week. The modern and contemporary art sale moves between East and West. Its leading lot is Zao Wou-Ki's 01.06.65, a 1965 abstraction painted at the height of the artist's Paris years, its bands of ochre light and dark interwoven passages carrying a dedication to the French art historian André Chastel on the reverse. Wu Guanzhong's Old Riverside Trees (1977) charts his passage from figuration toward semi-abstraction, while Liu Wei and Yue Minjun revisit 1990s Cynical Realism from a later vantage point. Women artists feature strongly, from Yuan Jai's 1998 Age of Bloom to Kei Imazu's Mermaids, which treats the image archive of the digital age as a kind of dream. Chinese art is anchored by museum-grade provenances. Qiu Ying's Autumn Ride on the Plains, a handscroll formerly in the Qing imperial collection and recorded in the imperial Shiqu Baoji catalogue, leads the paintings section, joined by Xu Wei's expressive Frog on Lotus Leaf, Radish and literati works by Bada Shanren and Fu Baoshi. In ceramics, the Wang Xing Lou collection of imperial Qing porcelain returns for a second dedicated part, alongside the Tsui Museum of Art collection, with new themed sections spanning Chinese art through the ages and floral, tea and religious treasures. The luxury offering pairs a 13th-century gilt-copper standing figure of Manjushri from Nepal's Khasa Malla kingdom with a Burmese jadeite bead necklace, an 11.88-carat unheated Kashmir sapphire ring and a 50.37-carat Burmese pigeon's blood ruby necklace. Watch collectors are offered Audemars Piguet's Royal Oak Concept Black Panther flying tourbillon, the manufacture's first collaboration with Marvel. Together the four categories present the house's bid to stage Hong Kong's autumn season as an encounter between Eastern and Western collecting tastes.