Market dispatch·Yokohama
The international art fair Tokyo Gendai ran 11 to 13 September in Yokohama with around 70 participating galleries.
Tokyo Gendai 2026 took place in Yokohama from 11 to 13 September, bringing together roughly 70 galleries from Japan and abroad. The fair continues to position itself as a key international art event for the Japanese market. Tokyo Art Beat covered the edition as part of its autumn fair reporting.
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Image: ArtskSotheby's will sell a dozen Impressionist and modern paintings assembled by Argentine collectors Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier, valued near $450 million. A Van Gogh of chestnut blossoms, estimated around $180 million, could set a new auction record for the artist. The works go on view in London on September 30 ahead of a November sale in New York.
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Image: ArtskThe Leiden Collection has acquired its 18th Rembrandt painting, Saint John on Patmos (c. 1661), which depicts the artist's son Titus as the exiled evangelist. The work had sold at Sotheby's London in 2025.
Source date ·Image: ArtskTran Luu Hau's 2005 canvas Park hammered for $359,000 at Sotheby's Hong Kong on 29 September, smashing his previous auction record by 125% and selling at more than four and a half times its low estimate.
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