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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

Having a museum moment: from Frankenthaler to Thiebaud, 10 artists hitting the spotlight

Discover the visionary designs of Frances Elkins: ‘the first great California decorator’

JAR in Geneva — alongside ‘pieces suffused with history’ by Bolin, Belperron and Boucheron

Surrealism: how artists such as René Magritte and Dorothea Tanning fused dream and reality

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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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

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Richard Mille: how the game-changing Swiss watchmaker defied tradition with its futuristic timepieces and became a dominant player in the industry

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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

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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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Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), Baby Boom, 1982. Acrylic, oilstick and paper collage on canvas mounted on tied wood supports. 49 x 84 in (125. x 213.5 cm). Estimate: $20,000,000-30,000,000. Offered in the 21st Century Evening Sale on 14‌ May‌ 2025 at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York // Clockwise from top left: Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021), Children of the Sixties, 1967. Oil on canvas. 72 x 60 in (182.9 x 152.4 cm). Estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 15‌ May‌ 2025 at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © 2025 Wayne Thiebaud Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), Basin, 1979. Acrylic on canvas. 52¼ x 106¼ in (132.7 x 269.9 cm). Estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000. Offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 12‌ May‌ 2025 at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © 2025 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue, 1922. Oil on canvas. 21¼ x 21 in (54 x 53.3 cm). Estimate on request. Offered in Leonard & Louise Riggio: Collected Works on 12‌ May‌ 2025 at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © 2025 Mondrian / Holtzman Trust / Jenny Saville (b. 1970), Componimento inculto, 2011. Pastel, charcoal and oil on canvas. 97 x 72¾ in (246.4 x 184.8 cm). Estimate: $1,500,000-2,000,000. Offered in the 21st Century Evening Sale on 14‌ May‌ 2025 at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London / Mark Rothko (1903-1970), No. 4 (Two Dominants) [Orange, Plum, Black], 1950-51. Oil on canvas. 67 x 54¾ in (170.2 x 139.1 cm). Estimate on request. Offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 12‌ May‌ 2025 at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York // The Bar at the Zellerbach Residence. Photo: Flying Studio // René Magritte (1898-1967), Les droits de l'homme, 1947-48. Oil on canvas. 57 x 45⅛ in (144.8 x 114.6 cm). Estimate: $15,000,000-20,000,000. Offered in Leonard & Louise Riggio: Collected Works on 12‌ May‌ 2025 at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © 2025 C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), Endgame, 1944. Oil on canvas. 17 x 17 in (43.2 x 43.2 cm). Estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000. Offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 12‌ May‌ 2025 at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris // Marianna Kennedy and Tilda Swinton in Kennedy’s house, London. Photo: © Lucinda Douglas-Menzies

Your ultimate guide to the 20th/21st Century Art auctions in New York

Having a museum moment: from Frankenthaler to Thiebaud, 10 artists hitting the spotlight

Discover the visionary designs of Frances Elkins: ‘the first great California decorator’

JAR in Geneva — alongside ‘pieces suffused with history’ by Bolin, Belperron and Boucheron

Surrealism: how artists such as René Magritte and Dorothea Tanning fused dream and reality

Editor’s picks

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