GALA AUCTION

Manuel Neri began a series of sculptures inspired by Makiko Nakamura, a Japanese artist he met in Carrara, Italy in 1980. Makiko IV is the only one available of the four bronzes made in this series. Each one is unique as Neri painted each differently and this one has a yellow glaze that gives her a warm golden tint. Sculptures from this series are in the Anderson Collection at Stanford and the di Rosa Foundation.

Market Value: $150,000
Minimum Bid: $50,000

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Moonlight Over Winter Woods is done in the traditional style of Chinese color and ink painting on paper known as the Lingnan School of painting.  This work is mostly black and white with hints of blue and some beige.  While classic in execution, Moonlight Over Winter Woods has a contemporary feel with its mostly monochromatic and dramatic forest scene.

Market Value: $10,000
Minimum Bid: $3,500

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KAN KWOK FAN

For auction is a complete set of TopGolf Callaway Brands clubs, accessories, and a custom ECPC fitting.

Clubs

• Driver of choice (up to $650)
• Rogue 3 wood
• Rogue 5 wood
• #3 hybrid
• Putter of choice (up to $450)
• Iron set 4-9
• Pitching wedge

Accessories

• Golf bag of choice (up to $750)
• Tour authentic glove
• Chrome soft golf balls

Custom ECPC Fitting

Not open to the public, a custom fitting is one of the most important aspects of improving your game. At a custom fitting location at the Callaway Headquarters in Carlsbad or an authorized center in the Bay Area, a club fitter will work with you to find everything from the right head models, lofts, flex, shafts, and weights for you. 

Market Value: $5,500
Minimum Bid: $2,000

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Experience up to $10,000 of Giorgio Armani’s Made to Order Program and create complementary custom pieces with a Master Tailor. The exclusive Made to Order service enhances the uniqueness of every woman and man. A series of pieces in the collection can be customized according to your taste by choosing the fabric, lining, buttons or piping, making it the perfect representative of your style.

Market Value: $10,000
Minimum Bid: $3,500

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In 2014, the Asian Art Museum began solo exhibitions by Asian American artists – Jenifer K Wofford, Carlos Villa, Bernice Bing, Chiura Obata, and more. This year we rewrote our mission statement to include Asian American artists.

We are committed to bringing attention to important works which often focus on, among other things, issues of identity, race, material culture, social justice, climate change, and how we live.

Support the Asian Art Museum in providing a platform for overlooked and underrecognized artists of Asian descent whose voices contribute so much to a vibrant contemporary art world.

COMMIT YOUR SUPPORT

This year’s Fund-a-Need levels are: $500, $1,000, $2,500, $5,000, $10,000, and $25,000

Image: Pattern Recognition (detail), 2020, by Jenifer K Wofford (American). Acrylic on aluminum. Commissioned by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, courtesy of the artist. Photograph courtesy of the artist.

Zheng Chongbin (b. 1961, Shanghai) lives and works in San Francisco Bay Area. He was educated as a classical Chinese figurative painter at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and received his M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied installation, performance, and conceptual art. His work is in the collections of the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Daimler Art Collection in Stuttgart, among others. 

Zheng Chongbin’s site-specific installation I Look for the Sky is suspended below the skylights and currently on view at the Asian Art Museum. It comprises of panels that vary in transparency and pattern that direct the flow of natural light and manipulates visual sightlines to create a novel spatial experience.

Market Value: $30,000
Minimum Bid: $10,000

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Digitally mastered print from Ansel Adam’s original photograph Aspens, Northern New Mexico

This black and white replica is reproduced directly from an original photograph by Ansel Adams, and carefully crafted to mirror the photograph’s brilliance and richness in contrast and tone.

Exclusively from The Ansel Adams Gallery, the digitally-mastered print leverages modern technologies, not available during Ansel’s lifetime, in order to allow more people the enjoyment of owning and displaying an Ansel Adams piece. Made with museum-quality materials estimated to last over 180 years, the heavy paper mimics the look and feel of gelatin silver paper, and multiple pigments reflect the tones and highlights of Ansel’s original works. The print is accompanied by the book Ansel Adams at 100.

Market Value: $1,580
Minimum Bid: $600

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Come for a day of beauty, shopping, and lunch at Neiman Marcus San Francisco.

Enjoy an exclusive in-store shopping experience at Neiman Marcus San Francisco!

Spend the day at Neiman Marcus San Francisco with up to 3 of your closest friends, including lunch in The Rotunda and champagne shopping experience.

This special in-store experience includes lunch for four in The Rotunda, with our new menu created by Chef Eric Harrelson.

Guests will receive a personalized cosmetics consultation from one of our select Beauty partners, including a deluxe gift bag.

This Neiman Marcus Experience is completed with a personal shopping appointment with Serena McNamee where guests can indulge in champagne in a private suite of fitting rooms while shopping the latest collections. The winner of this auction item will also receive a $1,000 Neiman Marcus gift card.

The host of this shopping experience will also receive a bottle of champagne and a set of crystal champagne glasses from Orrefors.

To be redeemed by June 30, 2023.

Market Value: Priceless
Minimum Bid: $500

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