Léger, Matisse and the spirit of modernism, A 17th-century computer, 20th/21st Century NY auction highlights, Geneva jewels, A Patek Philippe collection, Surrealism, and more͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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| This week’s stories Masterpieces of modernism led by Henri Matisse and Fernand Léger |
 | | | The Arnold and Joan Saltzman Collection features more than 70 works by artists also including Picasso, Miró, Kupka and Moore | | |
 | | | Our pick of 20/21 highlights: Monet, Mondrian, Diebenkorn, Rothko, Ruscha, Hockney, Wool | |
 | | | How ‘the Steve Jobs of the 17th century’ invented the Pascaline: the first mechanical calculator | |
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 | | | Magnificent jewels in Geneva: from Art Deco Lacloche Frères to these sumptuous JAR earrings | |
 | | | Your essential guide to the 20th- and 21st-century art sales in New York — on show now | |
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 | | | ‘Welcome to my world of watches’: Hong Kong collector John Shaw shares his passions | |
 | | | Surrealism: how artists such as Carrington, Ernst, Kahlo and Fini fused dream and reality | |
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This nude study by the French Rococo master François Boucher shows a female figure playing one flute and holding another. She has been identified variously as Euterpe, the muse of music, or Thalia, the muse of pastoral poetry. Rendered in chalk and pastel, the work appears to be a sketch for the artist’s 1752 painting A Reclining Nymph Playing a Flute with Putti, sold at Christie’s in 2005 Price on request
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The Rainbow Collection of 300 coloured diamonds is the result of decades of dedication by the trader Eddy Elzas. It began in the early 1970s, when he was shown a cigar box full of coloured diamonds that had failed to sell. He duly acquired them and added to their number over the years, gradually amassing a dazzling array of gems in a variety of cuts and sizes, spanning the full chromatic spectrum Estimate: CHF 1,600,000-2,400,000
11 November, Geneva | |
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Andrew Wyeth’s 1983 painting Lighthouse is a depiction of his home in Maine. Having spent every childhood summer in the state, the artist bought Tenants Harbor Light on Southern Island in 1978; it now houses the studio of his son, Jamie. There is a haunting air of mystery about the work, with the turret of the lighthouse represented primarily by its shadow on the adjoining white clapboard wall Estimate: $150,000-250,000
18 November, New York | |
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The glass sculpture Las Meninas, by the Spanish artist Manolo Valdés, was made around 2002 in an edition of 125. It is part of a series of works inspired by the Velázquez painting of the same title, in which the Infanta Margaret Theresa of Spain appears with a group of courtiers. Valdés gives three-dimensional form to one of the ladies-in-waiting, monumental in her voluminous dress Estimate: $4,000-6,000
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| |  | | • | | Katy Hessel — the art historian behind @thegreatwomenartists returns to the spotlight with her latest book, How to Live an Artful Life |
| | • | | Fabergé: a collector’s guide to the legendary jewellery house and its creations — illustrated with works offered in London on 2 December |
| | • | | Graphic Century: the evolution of printmaking across Impressionist, modern and post-war works, open for bidding until 19 November |
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Selling exhibition | Paris | Les Passions du Baron de Besenval – A Salon Reimagined | Viewing in Paris until 18 November | | Explore the exhibition |
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