The best of the 20th/21st Century Art sales in NY, JAR in Geneva, Artists on show in 2025, Designer Frances Elkins, Surrealism, and more͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌

|  | 3‌ May‌ 2025

This week’s stories ## Your ultimate guide to the 20th/21st Century Art auctions in New York
Featuring Basquiat, Calder, Mondrian, Monet, Rothko, Warhol and other art titans, from groupings assembled by Anne and Sid Bass, Leonard and Louise Riggio, Tiqui Atencio and Ago Demirdjian
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### Having a museum moment: from Frankenthaler to Thiebaud, 10 artists hitting the spotlight
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### Discover the visionary designs of Frances Elkins: ‘the first great California decorator’
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### JAR in Geneva — alongside ‘pieces suffused with history’ by Bolin, Belperron and Boucheron
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### Surrealism: how artists such as René Magritte and Dorothea Tanning fused dream and reality
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### Editor’s picks
Odilon Redon’s pastel Le vase aux tritomas dates from the 1890s or later. Before that, his works on paper were monochrome and his subjects tended towards the bizarre and uncanny. The intense colours of the blooms suggest something more than mere realism, and the artist’s view was that his flowers existed ‘at the confluence of two riverbanks: that of representation and that of memory’ Estimate: $200,000-300,000 13‌ May‌, New York
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At more than four metres long, this sautoir by JAR is a spectacular statement piece. Crafted from coral and pink opal beads, rose-cut and round diamonds, yellow gold and black silver, it is a visionary creation by Joel Arthur Rosenthal, the legendary New York-born, Paris-based jeweller known by his three initials and revered by collectors worldwide Estimate: CHF 90,000-130,000 14‌ May‌, Geneva
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This image of an insular flying fox, a species of bat found in the Pacific, is from an 18-volume work by Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont D’Urville: Voyage de la corvette l’Astrolabe. His account of the expedition, published between 1830 and 1835, is a landmark scientific treatise, and this copy is from the library of Empress Marie-Louise, with her gilt monogram on the bindings Estimate: €70,000-100,000 22‌ May‌, Paris
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The famous yellow henchmen in the animated comedy Despicable Me (plus its sequels and spin-offs) inspired Konstantin Chaykin to devise this titanium Minions watch. It was produced in a limited edition of 99 and modelled on the character of Bob, who has one brown eye and one green: these serve to show the hours and minutes, while the moon phases are indicated by his smiling mouth Estimate: CHF 15,000-25,000 12‌ May‌, Geneva
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### What’s on
| Design exhibition | Paris Curated by Tilda Swinton: Marianna Kennedy, Supersonic Mediaeval, 5-11‌ May‌
| Live for bidding | Hong Kong, Online Pavilion Online — Chinese Art, until 15‌ May‌
| Selling exhibition | New York The Collection of Toto & Jim Fisher, until 30‌ May‌

### Spotlight on
• | Richard Mille: how the game-changing Swiss watchmaker defied tradition with its futuristic timepieces and became a dominant player in the industry
• | Jewels by JAR offered in Geneva: a look at the work of Joel Arthur Rosenthal — the first ever living jeweller to have a retrospective at the Met in New York
• | Collector Heinz Berggruen, the art critic, curator and dealer who amassed more than 100 works by Picasso, a handful of which are now being offered at auction

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Online Auction ### Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art Online Highlights on view in Dubai until 8‌ May‌ BROWSE SALE

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