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Kai, 1991-92: an intimate portrait that reveals the closeness between Lucian Freud and his lover’s son
 
 
Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji —the first complete set of Hokusai’s series to be offered in two decades
 
Something in the way she moves? How Pattie Boyd inspired some of rock music’s greatest love songs
 
 
Sitting pretty: our favourite chairs, by C20 design legends from Frank Lloyd Wright to Alvar Aalto
 
 
Thread, neon, fur, soap: women artists who have asked what art is — and from what it can be made
 
 
‘Great outdoor sculpture gives you a different side of an artist’ — Botero, Miró, di Suvero and more
 
 
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Cuban-American artist Emilio Sánchez was known for vibrant depictions of architecture with an emphasis on geometric forms. Geometry comes to the fore in Vista de velas (‘view of sails’), from 1979-80, a work bordering on abstraction with its grid-like railings and bands of colour that define land, sea and sky
 
Estimate: $12,000-18,000
5-15 March, Online
 
 
 
 
 
Colin Field said he had served ‘several of the Batmans’ and ‘all the James Bonds’ in the three decades he spent running the Bar Hemingway at the Ritz Paris. He also amassed a fine collection of memorabilia, including this set of six French silver goblets, each engraved with the bar’s name and the dedication ‘pour Colin
 
Estimate: €600-800
until 13 March, Online
 
 
 
 
 
In Drain IV, Turner’s famous seascape The Fighting Temeraire is imagined being sucked down a plughole. The work, from 2020, is part of an eye-catching series by Pejac (aka Silvestre Santiago), in which iconic images by Claude Monet and Andrew Wyeth get the same treatment. Each is painted on an artist’s palette
 
Estimate: £10,000-15,000
until 12 March, Online
 
 
 
 
 
These 10 cast-iron house numbers were designed by the Art Nouveau pioneer Hector Guimard. They date from 1900-1908, a period that also saw the creation of the architect’s keynote works: the elegantly curved iron canopies adorning the entrances to the earliest Paris Metro stations, more than 60 of which still exist
 
Estimate: $3,000-5,000
until 12 March, Online
 
 
 
 
 
 
           
 
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Lucian Freud (1922-2011), Kai, 1991-92 (detail). Oil on canvas. 20⅛ x 24¼ in (51 x 61.5 cm). Estimate: £4,000,000-6,000,000. Offered in the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 7 March 2024 at Christie’s in London. Artwork: © The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2024 // Pattie Boyd (b. 1944), The Rose Garden (George Harrison and Pattie Boyd), 1968. Chromogenic print. Sheet: 24 x 36 in (61 x 91.5 cm). Estimate: £4,000-6,000. Offered in The Pattie Boyd Collection, 8-22 March 2024 at Christie’s Online // Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956), Armchair, Model No. 728, designed for the Kabaret Fledermaus, Vienna, c. 1907. Stained beech. 29½ x 20¾ x 18⅜ in (75 x 52.7 x 46.7 cm). Estimate: $800-1,200 / Pierre Paulin (1927-2009), ‘Ribbon’ Chair, Model No. 582, designed 1966. Metal, rubber, latex foam, lacquered wood, wool upholstery. 28½ x 40½ x 29½ in (72.4 x 102.9 x 75 cm). Estimate: $3,000-5,000 / Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Armchair from the Rayward-Shepherd House (‘Tirranna’), 1955-1964. Mahogany, fabric upholstery. 27½ x 29⅛ x 26¼ in (69.9 x 74 x 66.7 cm). Estimate: $5,000-7,000 / Johnny Swing (b.1961), ‘Half-Dollar’ chair, designed c. 2003. Half dollars, stainless steel. 33 x 46 x 32 in (83.8 x 116.9 x 81.3 cm). Estimate: $30,000-50,000 / Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), Cantilevered Armchair, Model No. 31, designed for Paimio Sanatorium, Finland, 1931-1932. Bent laminated birch, moulded birch-veneered plywood. 27 x 28½ x 24 in (68.6 x 72.4 x 61 cm). Estimate: $2,000-3,000 / Gaetano Pesce (b.1939), Set of four ‘Broadway’ chairs (detail), c. 1993. Resin, chrome-plated steel, plastic. 29½ x 22¼ x 15½ in (74.9 x 56.6 X 39.4 cm) (each). Estimate: $5,000-7,000 / Warren Platner (1919-2006), Set of four armchairs (detail), designed c. 1966. Chrome-plated steel, leather upholstery 29½ x 27¾ x 20½ in (75 x 70.5 x 52 cm). Estimate: $4,000-6,000. All offered in Modern Collector until 12 March 2024 at Christie’s Online // Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972), State of Being (Travel Guide), 2018. White thread, books and maps in metal frame. 59 x 19½ x 7⅞ in (150 x 49.5 x 20.1 cm). Estimate: £80,000-120,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 9 March 2024 at Christie’s in London / Hannah Höch (1889-1978), Das schöne Mädchen (The Beautiful Girl), circa 1920. Photomontage on paper laid down on the artist’s mount. Sheet: 14 x 11½ in (35.5 x 29.2 cm). Estimate: £120,000-180,000. Offered in The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale on 7 March 2024 at Christie’s in London / Tracey Emin (b. 1963), Love Poem for CF, 2007. Neon. 177⅛ x 131¼ in (450 x 333.4 cm). Estimate: £200,000-300,000. Offered in the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 7 March 2024 at Christie’s in London / Ana Silva (b. 1979), Untitled, 2020. Embroidery and found fabric on Tyvek. 52 x 45⅝ in (132 x 116 cm). Estimate: £3,000-5,000. Offered in First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online until 12 March 2024 at Christie’s Online / Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985), Tisch mit Vogelfüssen, 1939. Carved and gilded wood and bronze with gold patina, this work is unique. 25¼ x 16½ x 22⅜ in (64 x 42 x 56.8 cm). Estimate: £100,000-200,000. Offered in The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale on 7 March 2024 at Christie’s in London / Tauba Auerbach (b. 1981), Embossment Painting #14, 2011. Acrylic airbrush on embossed paper. Sheet: 40¾ x 30¼ in (103.5 x 77 cm). Estimate: £10,000-15,000. Offered in First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online until 12 March 2024 at Christie’s Online // Fernando Botero (1932-2023), Dancers, 2000 (detail). Bronze. 103 x 65 x 29⅜ in (261.6 x 165.1 x 74.6 cm). Estimate: $1,500,000-2,500,000. Offered in Latin American Art on 12 March 2024 at Christie’s in New York