A Fabergé imperial Easter egg from 1913, African American artists, Proust’s greatest muse, The Royal Blue sapphire necklace, Big names under $50k, 20/21 sculpture, The Quelle Idole, and more͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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| This week’s stories Gifted by Emperor Nicholas II to the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna: the Winter Egg |
 | | | One of the most lavish and artistically inventive of the 50 imperial eggs made by Fabergé was unveiled on Easter Day, 1913 | | |
 | | | African American art: a superb collection centred on Beauford Delaney and Charles White | |
 | | | Three treasures owned by Countess Elisabeth Greffulhe — Marcel Proust’s greatest muse | |
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 | | | Why Kashmir sapphires — 16 of which feature in The Royal Blue, above — are like no other | |
 | | | Big names at surprising prices: buy a work by Matisse, Signac or Braque for less than $50k | |
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 | | | Revolutions in sculpture: with works by Moore, Flavin, Calder, Hepworth, Holzer, Murakami | |
 | | | What makes the Hermès Quelle Idole so irresistible? We explore the origins of a compact classic | |
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To mark what would have been Wayne Thiebaud’s 105th birthday, here is his Mickey Mouse Cake. A pastel from 2000, it features an early version of the Disney icon, but with a strawberry for a nose. The artist’s interest in this aspect of American pop culture stemmed from his own CV: early in his career, he worked as an animation apprentice at Walt Disney Studios Estimate: $300,000-500,000
20 November, New York | |
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‘I’m against furniture,’ the Parisian designer Jean Royère once said. ‘I think we should eliminate it as much as possible.’ His minimalist vision and sense of humour are both on show in the ‘Ski’ floor lamp he designed around 1950. It consists mainly of a painted metal tube with a paper shade, the only ornamental feature being the base, made to resemble the end of a ski stick Estimate: €60,000-80,000
26 November, Paris | |
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Alice Rahon’s work Untitled, painted in 1948 using oils mixed with sand, is a fantastical nocturnal landscape in which both a full and a crescent moon glow above feather-like trees. Strings of bright shapes seem suspended between earth and sky, in a work reminiscent of prehistoric cave paintings. The French-born Surrealist had travelled to Mexico in 1939, and remained there for the rest of her life Estimate: $80,000-120,000
18 November, New York | |
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This 18th-century volume, The ‘Rabbit-Breeder’, contains a series of tracts, transcriptions and engravings relating to Mary Toft, a woman who claimed to have given birth to rabbits. She later admitted that her story, which had been believed by some of the leading physicians of the day, was a hoax, suggested to her by another woman as a route to fame and fortune Estimate: £4,000-6,000
10 December, London | |
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| |  | | • | | Abstract Expressionism: a guide to Franz Kline and his fellow post-war painters, whose influences ranged from Old Masters to jazz |
| | • | | Works on paper — drawings, collages and watercolours by Romare Bearden, Edgar Degas, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence and more |
| | • | | Line Vautrin: the brilliant French designer who applied her ingenuity to everything from Neo-Romantic jewellery to sunburst mirrors |
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The Sam Josefowitz Collection | London | Graphic Masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn — Part III | On view 27 November to 3 December | | Browse now |
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