Provenance:

Property from the Collection of Jon Eric Riis, Atlanta, Georgia.

Comprising over 20 lots, this selection from the collection of Jon Eric Riis spans Chinese textiles and jade scholar's objects to Korean rank badges and paintings, assembled over decades of extensive travel across Asia.

Widely recognized as one of the nation's leading contemporary tapestry artists and a connoisseur of textiles, Riis developed a deep appreciation for ethnographic art during his childhood in Chicago, later formalizing his studies at The Art Institute of Chicago and the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Following a 1970 Fulbright Scholarship to India to study indigenous textiles, he headed the Crafts Program at Georgia State University. After 25 years of creating major commissioned works for corporate and public spaces, Riis shifted his focus in the early 1990s entirely to his own fine art practice.

Today, his intricately woven tapestries, noted for their textured interplay of silk, metallic threads, and hand-stitched beadwork, are held in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery. His mastery of the medium was further recognized with a 2011 United States Artists (USA) Windgate Fellowship in Craft, an honor he traveled to Los Angeles to accept at the Getty Museum. This profound technical understanding of historic craftsmanship is evident throughout his personal collection. The property offered this season presents a unique opportunity to acquire Asian works of art vetted by the discerning eye of a master artist.

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喬治亞州亞特蘭大市Jon Eric Riis先生藏。

Jon Eric Riis先生（以下簡稱里斯）美國當代掛毯藝術家。對民族藝術情有獨鍾的他成長於芝加哥，深造於芝加哥藝術學院和克蘭布魯克藝術學院。1970年獲富布賴特獎學金赴印度研究紡織品，後擔任喬治亞州立大學工藝系主任。1990年代，在為企業與公共空間創作了二十五年之後，完全轉向個人創作。

他的手工藝術掛毯已被紐約大都會藝術博物館、芝加哥藝術學院和史密森尼倫威克美術館永久收藏。2011年，他榮獲美國藝術家（USA）Windgate工藝獎並赴洛杉磯蓋蒂博物館受獎。

里斯對傳統工藝的深刻理解充分體現在他的個人收藏。本場釋出二十餘件拍品涵蓋中韓織繡、玉雕文房，皆為幾十年間遊歷亞洲所得，慧眼挑選，請大家把握良機。

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