New York 20th/21st Century sales approach $1bn, A very rare dinosaur, Gerrit Dou, Mid-century design, William Blake, The world’s oldest watch retailer, Hermès bags, and more͏‌͏‌͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌

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This week’s stories # 20th and 21st Century auctions in New York approach $1bn
Rothko, Monet, Hockney, Picasso and Wool attract competitive bidding to lead sales, following strong seasons in London and Paris
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All in the detail: Gerrit Dou’s The Flute Player to be offered for the first time in 125 years
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Could this 6ft-high dinosaur — found in 2022 and nicknamed Spike — be a new species?
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How this Paris duplex became ‘a perfect archive of mid-century modern art and design’
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Burning bright: The Tyger and seven other poems illustrated, etched and printed by Blake
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Beyer Chronometrie: discover the world’s oldest watch retailer and its phenomenal collection
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From So Black to the Kelly Flat: how Jean Paul Gaultier refined and reshaped Hermès handbags
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### Editor’s picks
Though born after the heyday of the Pre-Raphaelites, Frank Cadogan Cowper was a devotee of their style. Fiorella, a watercolour from 1917, presents a lone female figure (probably from the one-act play of the same title) combing her hair. The textures of fabric and skin are brilliantly conveyed, with the sumptuous attire and rich colours adding to the allure of the image Estimate: £30,000-50,000 3‌ December‌, London
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From the collection of arts patron and philanthropist Elaine Wynn, the ‘Queen of Las Vegas’, this Graff ‘Superstar’ watch more than lives up to its name. Featuring an eye-popping selection of diamonds — square, round, tapered baguette, rectangular and triangular-cut — as well as triangular and baguette-cut emeralds, all set in white gold, it blends expert Swiss horology with the rarefied art of the jeweller Estimate: $120,000-180,000 10‌ December‌, New York
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Massimo Campigli’s 1932 painting Passeggiata depicts women taking part in the evening stroll that is a feature of social life in Italy. The artist, influenced by the stylised idiom of Etruscan art, applies geometric forms to the walkers and renders them in complementary colours, so that the figure in white, facing the viewer, echoes the one in dark brown with her back to us Price on request Private Sales
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This Attic black-figured amphora, a type of narrow-necked Greek jar with two handles, is about 2,500 years old. It is decorated with a pivotal scene from the Odyssey, in which Memnon, king of the Ethiopians, kills Antilochus as the hero Achilles hurries vainly to his defence. In Homer’s epic, this leads Achilles to avenge his friend, slaying Memnon in single combat Estimate: £50,000-70,000 3‌ December‌, London
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