Editor’s picks | | | Faith Ringgold, who died in April aged 93, was known for her narrative quilts, and Tar Beach II, made between 1990 and 1992, is a superb example. It tells the story of a girl named Cassie, who finds a sense of liberation at night on the ‘tar beach’, the rooftop of the Harlem apartment building where she and her family live VIEW LOT  Estimate: $150,000-250,000 1 October, New York | | | | Part of a series of large canvases by Bernard Frize, Insulaire L dates from 2004. The artist noted that the forms he chose were evocative of ‘the strata of a geological section, a landscape, a fan, an Indian fabric, a rainbow’. However, affirming his attachment to abstraction, he then added: ‘But I do not care much about these suggestions’ VIEW LOT Estimate: €35,000-55,000 until 3 October, Online | | | | The Scottish artist Elizabeth Keith went to Tokyo in 1915 to visit her sister and ended up staying for nine years. Her study of Japanese art, and travels in China, Korea and the Philippines, inspired her to create works depicting Asian life and landscapes, such as the atmospheric print Hong Kong Harbour at Night from 1924 VIEW LOT Estimate: $6,000-8,000 until 24 September, Online | | | | In 2007, when New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a shop in Bangkok, but no museum, Natee Utarit responded with a series of paintings of Met shopping bags — objects he described as ‘totally disconnected from the Asian art scene’. Painted on an epic scale, The Yellow MET suggests the degree to which art has been commercialised VIEW LOT Estimate: HK$500,000-700,000 27 September, Hong Kong | | | | |
