Editor’s picks | | | This copy of Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? is signed by Martin Luther King Jr to Steven Rockefeller. In what was to be his last book, the civil rights leader looks beyond the turmoil of 1960s America to a vision of a brighter future: ‘Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself’ Estimate: $4,000-6,000 until 28 January, Online | | | | | | A rediscovered work by J.M.W. Turner, The approach to Venice or Venice from the lagoon was identified after being submitted to Christie’s online appraisal service. Previously thought to be by John Ruskin, it is one of a group of atmospheric watercolours painted around 1840, most of which are now in national collections Estimate: $300,000-500,000 4 February, New York | | | | | | Baltimore’s Classical furniture style finds majestic expression in this simulated rosewood card table once owned by the poet Ogden Nash. Dating from around 1820, it is gilt-stencilled with foliate and floral motifs, and most likely came from Hugh Finlay and Co. The tabletop, covering a velvet-lined interior, can be opened out to create a larger playing surface Estimate: $8,000-12,000 24 January, New York | | | | | | As well as being a performer on the French stage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sarah Bernhardt was also a writer, painter and sculptor. Le Chant (Allegory of Song) may have been the model for a larger figure she created to adorn the façade of the Monte-Carlo Opera in the late 1870s, where another sculpture, representing dance, was the work of her lover, Gustave Doré Estimate: $80,000-120,000 7 February, New York | | | | | | |
