Axel Vervoordt on the art of curating, Basquiat’s Sabado por la Noche (Saturday Night), amfAR Palm Beach gala, Rare Fabergé, Banksy, Classical Indian paintings, F.N. Souza, and more͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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This week’s stories
Axel Vervoordt on the art of curating: ‘You rely on finding connections between objects’
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The great tastemaker describes how he brought ‘harmony’ to the Onzea-Govaerts Collection, which spans Japanese screens to 1970s design via canvases by Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Fontana
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How the amfAR Palm Beach gala — aided by Martha Stewart and Christie’s — raised $3.8 million to fight AIDS and HIV
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Classical Indian paintings: our guide to the schools and styles — Mughal, Rajput, Deccani, Pahari, South Indian and more
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Fabulous Fabergé: discover rare pieces with royal provenance, from exquisite elephants to a delicate study of forget-me-nots
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F.N. Souza — how sex, Soho, politics and religion framed a life and career ‘defined by rebellion from beginning to end’
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Sabado por la Noche (Saturday Night), 1984: Basquiat’s visual odyssey takes centre stage at HK’s 20th/21st Century Evening Sale
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Editor’s picks
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Bodies in motion have always been a fascination of the British artist Julian Opie. His 2022 work Old Street Walkers, presenting six pedestrians making their way along a London thoroughfare, uses lenticular panels to create the illusion of movement as the viewer passes by. The footless figures are reduced to a minimum of lines, yet each retains its unique character
Estimate: £50,000-70,000
until 1 April, Online
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In Tibet, Land of Living Buddhas, painted in 1927, the intrepid French artist and explorer Léa Lafugie records the arrival of her caravan on the shores of Pangong Tso, a lake lying partly in Tibet and partly in India. She deftly conveys the vertiginous drama of the scene, from the blue-green waters edged with pink sand to the mountains rising beyond and the glaciers gleaming in the distance
Estimate: HK$50,000-70,000
29 March, Hong Kong
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The vivid colour of Nicole Wittenberg’s 2021 painting Sweet William shows an affinity with Fauvism that began in childhood. One of the first artworks she remembers setting eyes on was Henri Matisse’s Woman with a Hat at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. ‘I was younger than 10 when I first saw that picture,’ she says, ‘and I just wanted to go back and see it again and again’
Estimate: HK$200,000-400,000
29 March, Hong Kong
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As both artist and theorist, Georges Mathieu was an advocate of lyrical abstraction — an art divorced from thought or representation, and best produced in an ecstatic state. Les yeux du jour (The Eyes of the Day), from 1987-88, epitomises the intense energy of the painter’s work, with a strong horizontal element from which forms seem to explode in every direction
Estimate: HK$500,000-800,000
29 March, Hong Kong
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Spotlight on
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Jewels Online, New York — explore signed jewellery by makers including Bulgari, Cartier, David Webb and Van Cleef & Arpels, from 24 March
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Banksy — six screenprints and ‘a hand-made tool with a happy ending’ offered in Contemporary Edition: London, on view and online until 1 April
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Brazilian modernism: a dazzling show on the artists who channelled and reshaped Europe’s avant-garde runs until 21 April at London’s Royal Academy
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Anytime, Anywhere
ART AND LUXURY, READY TO TAKE HOME
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Collections | New York, London and Paris
25 March to 15 April
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