Artists of the moment, 20th/21st Century Art sales in New York, Modern Irish art, French furniture, Works on paper, The Monuments Men, and more͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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This week’s stories
Eleven artists dominating the art world in 2024 and 2025
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From Rashid Johnson to Roni Horn, these are the artists of the moment — as well as featuring in our 20/21 auctions in New York
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Our 20th/21st Century Art sales in New York — what’s on offer, how to watch, how to bid, and why all eyes will be on Lot 1
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The trailblazing collection of Mary and Alan Hobart, whose London gallery drove a surge of interest in modern Irish art
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‘When everything from fashion to interiors was of the finest quality’ — how the Sun King made Paris the capital of luxury
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How to collect works on paper: illustrated with upcoming lots by Chagall, Basquiat, Degas, Bourgeois and Lichtenstein
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Looted by the Nazis and recovered by the Monuments Men — Largillierre’s Portrait of a woman (above) now offered in Paris
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Editor’s picks
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The influence of Titian can be seen in this 16th-century painting of a Cavalier King Charles spaniel by his pupil, Paris Bordone. It is a fragment of a much larger work, probably depicting Venus reclining in a landscape. Venetian scenes of this kind often included a pet dog curled up in the corner to add a playful note of the everyday to the mythological subject matter
Estimate: €15,000-20,000
21 November, Paris
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Moon Over Lake is an evocative nocturne by the Chinese artist and scholar Huang Yongyu, who died in 2023 at the age of 98. The brilliantly atmospheric work, painted in 1985, depicts an island town where clustered wooden buildings, aglow with lanterns, cast reflections on the water, while a pale moon floats over the horizon
Estimate: HK$800,000-1,600,000
28 November, Hong Kong
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Spessartine stones like the one in the centre of this Van Cleef & Arpels multi-gem cocktail ring are affectionately nicknamed ‘Mandarin’ or even ‘Fanta’ garnets, thanks to their vivid orange colour. This superb example is set among pear-shaped chrysoprase and marquise-cut coral cabochons, carved turquoise, onyx plaques and both round and square diamonds
Estimate: CHF 10,000-15,000
12 November, Geneva
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Georges Valmier had been an exponent of Cubism for more than a decade when he painted La fille de l’artiste, a 1924 portrait of his daughter. But unlike Braque and Picasso, the originators of the movement, Valmier preferred expressive colours to muted tones, and here the bright hues around the sitter contrast dramatically with the black and grey background
Estimate: $12,000-18,000
20 November, New York
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Spotlight on
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Impressionism: how Monet, Morisot, Degas and others defied the 19th-century’s rigid artistic standards to found the first avant-garde art movement
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Les Lalanne — the husband-and-wife ‘co-creators’ François-Xavier and Claude, who enchanted everyone from Yves Saint Laurent to Serge Gainsbourg
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Pearls: your need-to-know guide, from condition and colour — black, green or pink? — to cultivation and storage, illustrated with Geneva Luxury highlights
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Anytime, Anywhere
ART AND LUXURY, READY TO TAKE HOME
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Online Auction
Until 13 November
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