Editor’s picks | | | Emil Nolde’s Marschlandschaft, in watercolour and ink, is a hymn to the rain-soaked rural setting in which the German artist, a farmer’s son, grew up. As he once wrote, ‘Our landscape is modest, far from exhilarating or luscious… and yet, it gives to the intimate beholder who loves it an abundance of heartfelt, quiet beauty’ Estimate: £150,000-250,000 9 October, London | | | | | | A section of the home crowd at a Borussia Dortmund football match is the subject of Andreas Gursky’s vast photographic print Dortmund, 2009. The artist is famous for his epic scenes of massed humanity, and here, as in other works, there is a tension between the sense of an anonymous mob and the diverse individuals who can be picked out in the high-definition image Estimate: $300,000-500,000 2 October, New York | | | | | | Painted by Marie Laurencin in 1936, Les anges embodies the delicate, dreamlike quality for which she is best known. A one-time painter of porcelain at Sèvres, she became a key figure in the Paris avant-garde and went on to develop a body of work in which idealised female subjects exist in an imagined world without men Estimate: £60,000-80,000 10 October, London | | | | | | Like many other connoisseurs, the wine writer Robert Parker was impressed by Clape, Cornas 1990. He rated the vintage ‘outstanding’, praising its ‘ripe aromas of black fruits, liquorice and spices’ and ‘smashingly long finish’. It was made by the Rhône pioneer Auguste Clape, a vigneron by marriage who began bottling his own wines in the 1950s Estimate: HK$11,000-14,000 until 7 October, Online | | | | | | |
