Christie's to Auction JPHY Buddhist Art Collection in Paris This December

Christie's has announced the sale of the JPHY Collection, a two-part auction event centered on Indian and Himalayan Buddhist art. A live auction titled "Masterpieces of Buddhist Art: Peaceful and Wrathful" will take place in Paris on 10 December, accompanied by an online sale, "Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art," which opens for bidding on 30 November and closes on 11 December. The roughly 280 lots originate from the Himalayas, India, China, and the ancient region of Gandhara, spanning millennia of history. Christie's describes the JPHY Collection as the finest grouping of Indian and Himalayan Buddhist art to reach the international market in more than a decade, calling the sale a landmark moment for the global art market. In Paris, the collection is expected to rank among the French capital's most significant collection sales of the autumn season, a distinction heightened by the exceptional rarity of ensembles of this scale within the category. The announcement positions the December auctions as a focal point of the Paris autumn calendar and a rare opportunity for collectors of Buddhist art from South Asia, the Himalayan region, and Central Asia.