Modern sculpture: Giacometti, Hepworth, Rodin, A Rolex ‘Chinese Dragon’, Picasso, Design greats, Must-have finds under $50,000, and more͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌  ͏‌

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This week’s stories ## Everything you need to know about modern sculpture
How Giacometti, Hepworth, McCracken, Rodin and others — all offered in our 20th/21st Century sales — redefined the art form
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### Your ultimate guide to Picasso: his muses, methods, mediums, influences and inspirations
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### Why this rare Rolex ‘Chinese Dragon’ Ref. 6100, circa 1954, is ‘more than a wristwatch’
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### From Nakashima to Perriand, Prouvé and Jouve: discover nine design greats offered in Paris
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### Big names, surprising prices — works under $50,000 by Miró, Carrington, Morandi and more
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### Editor’s picks
The revered nobleman who is the subject of Andrea Vanni’s 14th-century painting The Blessed Andrea Gallerani got off to a bad start, being exiled from Siena for killing a blasphemer. He later repented and founded the charitable Confraternity of the Misericordia, whose oratory still stands in Siena today Price on request Private Sales
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Albert Cheuret studied sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in his native Paris, hence the elegant artistry of the Art Deco floor lamp he designed around 1920. It takes the form of a stylised palm tree, with a textured silvered-bronze ‘trunk’ and foliate forms appearing to sprout from the top to support the alabaster shade Estimate: €80,000-120,000 21‌ May‌, Paris
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Dating from the 1930s, these Cartier ‘rose à la main’ clip brooches, in the form of hands holding flowers, are made of coral, black enamel, old and rose-cut diamonds, yellow gold, platinum and silver. In a witty and whimsical touch, the wrists of the sculpted hands are themselves adorned with miniature bracelets Estimate: CHF 12,000-18,000 until 20‌ May‌, Online
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This magnum of Le Pin 1982 is seriously covetable: a very rare expression of a legendary Bordeaux vintage from a vineyard producing no more than 700 cases a year. Critic Robert Parker called the wine a ‘flamboyant, exotic, lavishly rich, concentrated, low-acid fruit bomb’ and gave it a perfect score of 100 Estimate: HK$85,000-120,000 22‌ May‌, Hong Kong
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### What’s on
| Live for bidding | Online Jewels Online: The Geneva Edit, until 20‌ May‌
| Live for browsing | New York Old Masters and 19th Century Paintings from a Private Collection — Selling Without Reserve, 20‌ May‌
| Live for browsing | Hong Kong Iconic Wines from Joseph Lau Part III, 22‌ May‌
### Spotlight on
• | The Impressionists — how the likes of Monet, Morisot and Pissarro ‘freed painting’ from academic convention to form the first avant-garde art movement
• | Works on paper by Matisse, Modigliani, Schiele and more: paintings and drawings with the immediacy of the artist’s hand, all offered in New York
• | Mid-century French design icons: how pioneering post-war makers produced decorative arts and furniture that unified beauty and utility
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