International Sale: Three Single Owner Collections of Asian Art

This auction unites three distinct provenances shaped by long-standing dedication to art, culture, and scholarship. The collection of Paolo Bertuzzi, a Bolognese fashion stylist and lifelong collector, offers a selection defined by refined connoisseurship informed by haute couture and academic study, spanning works from archaic to contemporary traditions. Complementing it is the collection of Philippe Icher, an artist and traveler whose long engagement with the Himalayan world produced a deeply personal group of ritual objects, ornaments, and tools of everyday beauty gathered through lived experience and spiritual encounter. The third provenance traces to the early foundations of The National Museum...