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23‌ Aug‌ 2025

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Asawa, Man Ray, Rauschenberg and more — discover New York City’s must-see exhibitions

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With the US Open in full swing, a look at 15 tennis treasures that span 400 years of sport and style

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Les couleurs de la mer is an early work by the French artist Françoise Gilot. She was determined to pursue a career in art, despite her father’s insistence that she study law, and this 1942 painting of fish and a lemon on a kitchen counter shows the extraordinary talent and avant-garde sensibility of an artist who was then only 20 years old — and had not yet met Picasso, with whom she would have two children

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These Van Cleef & Arpels leaf brooches are brilliant examples of the jeweller’s ‘mystery-set’ technique, developed in the 1930s. The pieces are ingeniously designed so that the gems — round and calibré-cut diamonds and calibré-cut rubies — are displayed without a visible metal setting. The overall effect, with gold trim only appearing around the edges and on the stem of each leaf, is dazzling

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Dating from around 1770, this George III mahogany bookcase is inscribed ‘I.W. Crompton, Birmingham’ in several places. It is an imposing piece of furniture, from the fluted cornice at the top to the panelled cupboards below. There are glazed doors in front of the bookshelves, a baize-lined sliding projection in the middle, and, in the lower section, four drawers on either side

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Made of five different luxury leathers in five colours, this rare Rainy Days Faubourg Sellier Birkin 20 handbag is a mini masterpiece. It is styled after the Hermès flagship boutique at 24 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris, imagined on a showery day. Delightful details abound, from the orange shop awnings to the key-holder clochette, which is in the guise of an Hermès carrier bag

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Clockwise from top left: Man Ray (1890–1976), Le violon d’Ingres, 1924. Gelatin silver print. 19⅛ × 14¾ in (48.5 × 37.5 cm). Private collection. © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025. Photo by Ian Reeves. From the exhibition Man Ray: When Objects Dream at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 14‌ September‌ 2025-1‌ February‌ 2026 / Claude Monet (1840-1926), Japanese Footbridge, Giverny, 1885. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of F. Otto Haas, reserving the life interest of his wife Carole Haas Gravagno, 1993, 1993-151-2. From the exhibition Monet and Venice at Brooklyn Museum, 11‌ October‌ 2025-1‌ February‌ 2026 / Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017), Lawdy Mama, 1969. Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 53¾ × 36¼ in. Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Stuart Liebman, in memory of Joseph B. Liebman 1983.25. © Barkley L. Hendricks. Courtesy the Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo: Adam Reich; Rendering of the expanded New Museum. Courtesy OMA/bloomimages.de // Henry Cheng of Christie's and collector Ambrose Lee photographed at The Henderson, Hong Kong // Théo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926), À Thuin ou La Partie de tennis, 1889. Oil on canvas. 21⅛ x 26¼ in / Circle of Cornelis de Vos (1585-1651), Portrait of a girl, half length, holding a tennis racquet. Oil on canvas. 22¾ x 18¼ in (57.7 x 46.3 cm) // Installation view of the exhibition Moderno y Metamoderno at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, until‌ March‌ 2026. Photo: Josefina Tommasi. Courtesy of Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Artes // Portrait of Rachel Marks. Photo: © Anna Buklovska // Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010), Jiangnan Scenery (detail). Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper. 18⅞ x 21⅞ in (48 x 55.5 cm). Estimate: HKD 350,000. Offered in Summer Reverie: Chinese Paintings Online until 29‌ August‌ 2025 // Portrait of Marie-Louise Scio. Photo: Gerardo Gaetani. View from Scio’s country house in Lubriano, Italy. Photo: courtesy of Marie-Louise Scio