Rodin, Giacometti and Judd: 20th/21st Century sculpture highlights, Hot contemporary artists, Big names at surprising prices, Ming furniture, Frederic Leighton, Old Masters, and more͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌

This week’s stories ## Everything you need to know about modern sculpture
How Rodin, Duchamp, Giacometti, Judd, Lalanne and more — all offered in our 20/21 auctions in New York — redefined the medium
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### Hot contemporary artists: from a maker of ‘intimate doppelganger avatars’ to a ‘vivid’ chronicler of London’s 1980s Black history
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### Big names at surprising prices: Vuillard, Delaunay, Signac, Man Ray and Picasso, all with low estimates of less than $50,000
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### How Grace Wu assembled the world’s finest collection of Ming furniture — and why some of it is to be offered in Hong Kong
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### Leighton and Landscape in London — the paintings made on his travels that reveal a more personal side of the artist
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### All the world’s a stage: actor Lionel Erdogan, star of Spiral and currently treading the boards in As You Like It, picks out favourite paintings and sculptures on offer in our Paris Old Masters sales
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### Editor’s picks
Portrait of François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture depicts a hero of the Haitian revolution, the first successful slave revolt in modern history. Painting it, in 1804-05, was a defiant act by Alexandre François Louis de Girardin, since Toussaint had been deported and imprisoned by the French authorities, dying behind bars in 1803 Estimate: €200,000-400,000 21‌ November‌, Paris
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Made more than 2,100 years ago, this bronze-inset jade cup from the Han dynasty was used to hold wine. The surface of the jade is incised with cloud patterns, while the bronze frame has bear motifs. Bears were seen as a symbol of strength in Han culture, which is why they appear on the vessel’s legs, the parts carrying its weight Estimate: HK$300,000-500,000 29‌ November‌, Hong Kong
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When the Australian artist Sidney Nolan visited the Antarctic in January 1964, he was amazed by the colours he saw there. Antarctica, a painting made that year, is a record of his wonder. ‘I had expected only the white of ice and snow,’ he recalled, ‘but this is not so. It is black, ochre, dark green and blue, with an oyster-coloured sky and an indigo sea’ Estimate: £15,000-25,000 19‌ November‌, London
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‘I grew up in Nashville,’ the artist Red Grooms once said. ‘I wished desperately that it had a bigger skyline and that the streets had more people on them.’ Hence his move to New York, where he created teeming scenes such as Deli, from 2006, a hand-cut three-dimensional lithograph in a Plexiglas case, packed with a cast of cartoon-like city dwellers Estimate: $2,000-3,000 until 19‌ November‌, Online
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### What’s on
| Closing soon | London Royal Drawing School selling exhibition: Best of The Drawing Year 2024, until 17‌ November‌
| Last days to view | New York 20th/21st Century Art sales in New York, until 22‌ November‌
| Live for browsing | London Finest and Rarest Wines, 26 and 27‌ November‌

### Spotlight on
• | Abstract Expressionism — how a distinctly American style of painting emerged from post-war New York, casting off traditionalism and breaking boundaries
• | The ceramics of Pablo Picasso, who designed hundreds of editions over three decades, many from his workshop studio in Vallauris on the Côte d’Azur
• | Alexander Calder: the youngest artist ever to have a retrospective at MoMA, who transformed 20th-century sculpture with his ‘drawings in space’ mobiles

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