French collector Melchior Dejouany and Hong Kong collector Richard Kan at Christie's Paris exhibition The Phoenix Glue and the Broken Silk Thread — Important Vietnamese Artworks from the Melchior Dejouany Collection, 9 Avenue Matignon 75008 Paris, France
Hong Kong collector Richard Kan (Courtesy Sotheby's)
Richard Kan is a Hong Kong-based collector of international repute of objects of fine art, an organizer of important exhibitions worldwide and a descendant of the founders of the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company, one of the most distinguished businesses in pre-Revolutionary China. Kan was schooled in Hong Kong and England and then launched a career in engineering and development. Although he would become a success in land development, his true passion lay with Chinese monochrome porcelains, an area of collecting requiring tremendous knowledge and connoisseurship.
Richard Kan's collections cover many areas, from ancient Greek coins to Chinese monochrome ceramics and to Leica cameras from the 1920s to the present day. His prized collections have been exhibited in Geneva and will soon be exhibited in Paris and Dresden, the Chãteau Versailles and possibly in Lisbon.
