Editor’s picks | | | Jonas Wood’s 2014 painting Landscape Pot 1 is part of a series focused on ceramics, the art practised by his wife, Shio Kusaka. Combining still life and landscape, it depicts a plant in a pot decorated with a hilltop view (including radio and mobile-phone masts) and is on a startlingly epic scale, at just under 10 feet tall Estimate: $2,200,000-2,800,000 14 May, New York | | | | The pendant on this Bulgari sautoir is designed so that it can be removed and worn on its own as a brooch. The serpent’s body — made of rose gold and set with round and pear-shaped diamonds — is punctuated with dark panels to represent its markings, in an apt choice of material: snakewood Estimate: CHF 60,000-80,000 until 22 May, Online | | | | A realistic view of a rocky shore, with crashing waves, a bobbing surfer and a group of sunbathers, is subverted by Mark Tansey in his 1991 canvas Archive. Looming enigmatically above the tiny figures is a cliff face formed of mostly illegible text from a book of literary theory, Blindness and Insight by Paul de Man Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000 17 May, New York | | | | Dating from 1985, Long Term Parking is by the French-American artist Arman. It consists of a pile of toy cars encased in concrete, and is a domestic-sized version of the towering original, made in 1982 in Jouy-en-Josas, near Paris, for which Arman used 60 real cars and 18,000 kilos of concrete Estimate: $6,000-8,000 until 21 May, Online | | | Browse Auctions | |
