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This week’s stories ## ‘It’s a painting that transports you, that rewards prolonged and careful looking’
The ‘universal beauty’ of the Mondrian masterpiece leading the May New York sale — Leonard & Louise Riggio: Collected Works
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### From Spilliaert to Fontana: eight works inspired by the infinite and ‘all that happens in the sky’
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### The Pictorialists: how romantic imagery and painterly effects raised photography to a fine art
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### How the 18th-century craze for chinoiserie ‘shaped the history of European decorative arts’
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### In Chinese philosophy, ‘vessels embody the way’ — these rare imperial treasures show us why
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### Editor’s picks
Dating from‌ around‌ 1947‌-50, Portrait d’Odette Bourgeois is an early work by the Egyptian artist Salah Yousri. After graduating from art school in Cairo, he went to Paris to train under the Cubist André Lhote. This painting is both a vivid likeness of the sitter, powerfully conveyed through angular forms and bold colours, and a reflection of Lhote’s influence on the young artist Estimate: €10,000-15,000 10‌ April‌, Paris
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Agostino Bonalumi is best known for his ‘extroflections’: abstract works in which the surface of the canvas is stretched as if being pressed from behind, and which usually have laconic titles based on their colour. Giallo (‘yellow’), from 1979‌, is a mesmerising example, with a series of strong horizontals that seem to fade away as they cross the picture plane Estimate: €25,000-35,000 11‌ April‌, Paris
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This parcel-gilt silver chariot was made for the Maharaja of Bikaner in Rajasthan in the mid-19th century. A magnificent decorative object when not in use, it is also fully functional. With the silver horses unhitched, it was intended to carry two children dressed as the Hindu deities Krishna and Radha — probably during the annual Ratha Yatra, or chariot festival Estimate: £80,000-100,000 1‌ May‌, London
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‘Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen,’ the American artist Wayne Thiebaud once said. His 1983 woodcut Dark Cake, like many of his depictions of pastries, hot dogs and ice creams, has a brooding quality that seems at odds with the subject matter, suggesting that all may not be well in the land of plenty Estimate: $18,000-25,000 16‌ April‌, New York
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