Books and manuscripts: Joyce, Salinger & Brando, Dutch landscapes, Salvador Dalí, North America exhibitions, Mathieu Lehanneur, and more͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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This week’s stories
Page turners — from classics by Joyce and Salinger to a thrilling find for Brando fans
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Books and manuscripts coming to New York include a signed copy of Ulysses, a pristine first edition of The Catcher in the Rye — and Marlon Brando’s personally annotated script for The Godfather
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Masters of light — how the greatest landscape painters in northern Europe added lustre to the Golden Age of Dutch art
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Van Gogh in Boston, Thiebaud and Asawa in San Francisco, Chinese bronzes in NYC… the shows to see in North America
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In the Frame: meet Mathieu Lehanneur, the designer who floated a flaming cauldron above Paris for the Olympics
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Fifty years of the Dalí Theatre-Museum — the extraordinary Spanish institution offering ‘a journey inside the artist’s brain’
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Editor’s picks
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This copy of Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? is signed by Martin Luther King Jr to Steven Rockefeller. In what was to be his last book, the civil rights leader looks beyond the turmoil of 1960s America to a vision of a brighter future: ‘Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself’
Estimate: $4,000-6,000
until 28 January, Online
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A rediscovered work by J.M.W. Turner, The approach to Venice or Venice from the lagoon was identified after being submitted to Christie’s online appraisal service. Previously thought to be by John Ruskin, it is one of a group of atmospheric watercolours painted around 1840, most of which are now in national collections
Estimate: $300,000-500,000
4 February, New York
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Baltimore’s Classical furniture style finds majestic expression in this simulated rosewood card table once owned by the poet Ogden Nash. Dating from around 1820, it is gilt-stencilled with foliate and floral motifs, and most likely came from Hugh Finlay and Co. The tabletop, covering a velvet-lined interior, can be opened out to create a larger playing surface
Estimate: $8,000-12,000
24 January, New York
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As well as being a performer on the French stage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sarah Bernhardt was also a writer, painter and sculptor. Le Chant (Allegory of Song) may have been the model for a larger figure she created to adorn the façade of the Monte-Carlo Opera in the late 1870s, where another sculpture, representing dance, was the work of her lover, Gustave Doré
Estimate: $80,000-120,000
7 February, New York
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Spotlight on
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Painters of the American West: how a group of 19th-century pioneers helped shape a national identity for the United States that still resonates today
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How to sell your Hermès Birkin: a guide to consigning your handbag for auction or through Private Sales, from valuations to the best time to sell
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Fashion in Old Master paintings: what the clothing depicted in Renaissance and 17th-century works of art can tell us about the sitters and their times
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Anytime, Anywhere
ART AND LUXURY, READY TO TAKE HOME
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The John Cornforth Memorial Lectures
London and online, February to April 2025
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