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Kahlo’s sister and Lempicka’s daughter: intimate portraits dear to A&M boss Jerry Moss’s heart
 
 
How the making of Legal Eagles led film director Ivan Reitman to collect Picasso, Rothko and more
 
Why Warhol’s painting, Sixteen Jackies, stands at the pinnacle of his ‘Death and Disaster’ series
 
 
The artists’ artist: why Paul Cezanne was — according to Monet — ‘the master of us all’
 
 
On the ‘grail’ trail in Geneva: with rare watches by George Daniels, Rolex and F.P. Journe
 
 
Records for Miró and Lalanne take 20th/21st Century sale week in Paris to €126m/$134m
 
 
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Faye Dunaway had just won her Best Actress Oscar for Network when she was captured by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel in this era-defining photograph. The date was 29 March 1977, and behind the camera was star photographer Terry O’Neill, Dunaway’s boyfriend, who would later become her husband
 
Estimate: €10,000-15,000
until 9 November, Online
 
 
 
 
 
Pugs came to Europe from imperial China in the 16th century and were considered lucky charms. So this German silver drinking cup, of a kind presented to honoured guests at formal dinners, is the ideal vessel for raising a toast to good fortune. It is also strikingly naturalistic, with the dog’s coat rendered in finely chiselled detail
 
Estimate: €3,000-5,000
until 3 November, Online
 
 
 
 
 
By 1818, Beethoven’s deafness meant that friends had to communicate with him by writing in ‘conversation books’. The composer also used them for jotting down notes, and this leaf from 1825 includes an early sketch for the Cavatina movement of his String Quartet No. 13 (plus a reminder to buy 22 bottles of Vöslauer wine)
 
Estimate: £50,000-80,000
until 8 November, Online
 
 
 
 
 
This unique Maîtres du Temps wristwatch, from around 2010, is the culmination of a complex collaboration. Watchmakers Kari Voutilainen and Andreas Strehler worked together on its creation, while the miniaturist André Martinez decorated the dial with a copy of the 1959 Jasper Johns painting Figure 8
 
Estimate: CHF 20,000-40,000
6 November, Geneva
 
 
 
 
 
 
           
 
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Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Portrait of Cristina, My Sister, 1928. Oil on panel. 31⅞ x 23¾ in (79.8 x 60.3 cm). © 2023 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Estimate: $8,000,000-12,000,000 / Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), Fillette en rose, c. 1928-1930 (detail). Oil on canvas. 45⅝ x 28⅝ in (115.9 x 72.8 cm). © 2023 Tamara Art Heritage / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, New York. Estimate: $7,000,000-10,000,000. Both offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 9 November 2023 at Christie’s in New York // The Reitman living room at their Montecito, California home. Featuring Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Femme endormie, 1934. Oil on canvas. 28½ x 21¼ in (72.4 x 54 cm). Estimate: $25,000,000-35,000,000; and Mark Rothko (1903-1970), Untitled (Red, Orange on Pink), 1968. Oil on paper laid down on canvas. 33½ x 25¾ in (85.1 x 65.4 cm). Estimate: $6,500,000-8,500,000. Both offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 9 November at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Artwork: © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York // Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Sixteen Jackies, 1964 (detail). Silkscreen ink on linen, in 16 parts. Overall: 80 x 64 in (203.2 x 162.6 cm). Estimate: $25,000,000-35,000,000. Offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 9 November 2023 at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS). Source image photograph Henri Dauman, 1963 // Cécile Verdier, President of Christie’s France, selling Joan Miró’s Peinture (femmes, lune, étoiles), 1949. Photo: © Jean-Philippe Humbert. Artwork: © Successió Miró / ADAGP, Paris and DACS London 2023