Americana Week highlights, Jeff Beck’s guitars, Masterpieces in silver, Iris Apfel, Europe exhibitions, and more͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌

This week’s stories ## Specialists’ picks: 12 rare and historic objects offered in our Americana Week sales
Showcasing a ceremonial gold spike from the Alaska Railroad, a Thomas Moran landscape and the only 18th-century manuscript of the Declaration of Independence ever to appear at auction
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### 10 guitars that shaped Jeff Beck: from a Gibson Les Paul played by Jimi Hendrix to a Jackson Soloist signed by Tina Turner
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### Inside the trendsetting collection of Iris Apfel — the interior designer and fashion icon who became a model at the age of 97
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### A ruby-clad ostrich, a gleaming galleon and a silver-gilt deck of playing cards: treasures from a world-class silver collection
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### Valadon in Paris, Merz in Bern, Munch in London, Anadol in Bilbao… the best exhibitions happening in Europe in 2025
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### Editor’s picks
Based on a work by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Cincinnati Art Museum, Portrait of Miss Ridge, bust-length has a rare spark of life about it, the sitter’s gaze meeting that of the viewer with an engaging directness. The original remained with the artist’s family until 1859, so this version may have been painted by one of his descendants Estimate: $20,000-30,000 5‌ February‌, New York
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This partial script for The Godfather, dating from 1971, is an offer you can’t refuse if you’re a serious film buff. Included in its 66 pages are a number of handwritten edits and comments by Marlon Brando, whose portrayal of mafia boss Don Corleone helped make Francis Ford Coppola’s mob movie an era-defining phenomenon Estimate: $20,000-30,000 14-28‌ January‌, Online
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein’s 1958 painting Emansemano (No. 735) is typical of his complex, colourful and explosive style. The dizzying amount of detail in the work is all the more surprising given that the self-taught artist would work at his kitchen table in Milwaukee, using sticks, combs, chicken bones and even his fingers to apply the paint Estimate: $12,000-18,000 22‌ January‌, New York
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It may be more than 2,300 years old, but this Apulian red-figured fish plate makes as vivid an impression today as when it first came out of the kiln. A striped bream, an octopus, a shrimp and a mussel are among the sea creatures depicted, with a wave motif on the rim emphasising the marine theme Estimate: $15,000-20,000 4‌ February‌, New York
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### What’s on
| On view | Paris Le ciel est, par-dessous le toit — Christie’s France staff exhibition, until 13‌ January‌
| Bidding opens soon | New York, Online Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana, 14-28‌ January‌
| Live for browsing | New York Antiquities, 4‌ February‌

### Spotlight on
• | Outsider art — a guide to the genre-defying works of Martín Ramírez, Bill Traylor, Adolf Wölfli and more in the lead-up to our 22‌ January‌ New York sale
• | Essential epochs in American furniture: from Anglo-Dutch Queen Anne to the Federal period a century later and the Aesthetic Movement of the Gilded Age
• | 19th-century American art: how artists framed the identity of the independent United States in an era of turbulence, growing wealth and rising self-confidence

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