Yves Klein’s California, (IKB 71), Masterworks from Paris and New York, Domenico Gnoli, Printmaking in 1960s America, Rembrandt Bugatti bronzes, Cycladic art, Designer Rose Uniacke, and more͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  
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11‌ OCT‌ 2025

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California, (IKB 71): Yves Klein’s ‘open window to freedom’

 

The largest monochrome painting by the artist in private hands — more than four metres wide — embodies ‘the feeling you always had that Klein was involved with something bigger and greater’

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From Picasso to Rothko — how ideas first forged in Paris were later transformed in New York

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How two studios revitalised US printmaking — with help from Ed Ruscha and Jasper Johns

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5,000 years of Cycladic art — the Greek island sculptors who inspired Moore and Modigliani

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Meet designer Rose Uniacke, whose work conveys ‘a comfort, and a feeling of possibility’

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Rembrandt Bugatti’s most devoted collector: ‘The animals welcomed me into their world’

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‘I isolate and represent’ — the extraordinary, transformative paintings of Domenico Gnoli

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Editor’s picks

 

Emil Nolde felt a strong attachment to Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany, the region of his birth, repeatedly painting its drenched landscapes and isolated houses. In Marschlandschaft mit Bauernhof, from 1935‌, he adds visionary colour to a farmstead surrounded by boggy fields, with cloud-filled skies above, creating an image of near ecstasy in saturated watercolours

Estimate: £150,000-200,000
17‌ October‌, London

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This is the only existing manuscript of ‘Nothing New’, a poem by Robert Frost that lay undiscovered for 107 years. The poet wrote it by hand on the endpaper of a copy of his book North of Boston, dating it‌ 1918‌ and noting the location as Amherst, the Massachusetts college where he taught English for several years. It was first published in The New Yorker in February 2025

Estimate: $20,000-30,000
until 16‌ October‌, Online

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This Roman gold ring, which is about 2,000 years old, takes the form of a serpent coiled around the wearer’s finger, with naturalistic scaly markings and a sense of writhing movement adding to its appeal. While snakes tend to be regarded with a wary eye today, to the ancients they were associated with healing, and jewels like this were believed to ward off bad luck

Estimate: $12,000-18,000
23‌ October‌, New York

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The Mexican artist Damián Ortega is known for finding art in everyday objects. In his 1998 work Tortillas Construction Module, a staple of his homeland’s cuisine takes on a surprising new sculptural form. He created a delicate tower of upright and horizontal circular elements using 51 corn tortillas, each with four incisions around the edge so they could be slotted together

Estimate: £2,500-3,500
until 22‌ October‌, Online

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Yves Klein (1928-1962), California, (IKB 71), 1961. Dry pigment and synthetic resin on canvas mounted on panel. 77⅛ x 165¾ in (196 x 421 cm). Estimate on request. Offered in Avant-Garde(s) including Thinking Italian on 23‌ October‌ 2025 at Christie’s in Paris. © Succession Yves Klein c/o ADAGP, Paris and DACS London 2025 // Joan Miró (1893-1983), Femme nue, 1932. Oil on panel. 13⅛ x 7⅞ in (33.5 x 20 cm). © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2025 / Joan Miró (1893-1983), Personnages, 1934. Oil and gouache on paper. 13⅛ x 7⅞ in (33.5 x 20 cm). © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2025 / Georges Braque (1882-1963), La Ciotat, 1907. Oil on canvas. 19⅜ x 23⅝ in (49.2 x 60 cm). © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. All offered in The Collection of Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis in November 2025 at Christie’s in New York / © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY // Ed Ruscha (b. 1937), Mocha Standard, 1969. Screenprint in colours. Image: 19⅝ x 37 in (498 x 939 mm). Sheet: 25¾ x 40⅛ in (654 x 1019 mm). Estimate: $120,000-180,000. Offered in Prints and Multiples on 23 and 24‌ October‌ 2025 at Christie’s in New York. © Ed Ruscha // Hampton House, designed by Rose Uniacke. Photo: © Luke White // Domenico Gnoli (1933-1970), Le Matelas, 1965. Oil and sand on canvas. 51⅜ x 59 in (130.5 x 150 cm). Estimate: €1,500,000-2,000,000. Offered in Moderne(s), une collection particulière européenne on 23‌ October‌ 2025 at Christie’s in Paris. © Domenico Gnoli, DACS 2025 // Boemo Diale (b. 2000), Banana Leaf Offerings, 2024 (detail). Mixed media on canvas. 130 x 170 x 5 cm. Courtesy of kumalo | turpin