Japanese Prints Consultant Sachiko Hori and Heritage Auctions Department Coordinator and Cataloger Megan Ma chat about many Japanese Woodblock Prints up for auction from The Nelkin Collection.
Heritage Auctions is honored to handle The Nelkin Collection, property from the estate of Ruth Sylvia Nelkin, late of Stamford, Connecticut, and New York City.
When Mrs. Nelkin wasn’t occupied with philanthropic work, she spent whatever spare time she had in the company of antiques dealers, galleries and auctioneers, searching for extraordinary works of art. Those who knew her remember a meticulously dressed, fierce negotiator who knew what she wanted and what was needed to acquire it.
The Nelkins’ varied possessions had one common denominator: quality. She sought and found items of the highest caliber in every category: a precious Russian object one day, a virtuoso piece of French art glass the next, her buying punctuated with pieces of historical Americana, American paintings, Asian ceramics, Wedgwood pottery and objets de vertu of the highest order. Above all, however, was her passion for ukiyo-e, the Japanese art of woodblock printmaking.
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