Editor’s picks | | | The works of Korean artist Yoon Byung-Rock are remarkable for their ultra-realistic style and their startling scale. His 2024 painting Autumn’s Fragrance, a bird’s-eye view of shiny red apples appearing to burst forth from their box, is more than four and a half feet across, so the fruit looks both real and gigantic. Rendered in oils on Korean paper, it is a wildly exuberant take on the still life Estimate: $40,000-60,000 18 March, New York | | | | | | This terracotta sculpture, made around 1785 by Pierre Julien, depicts the nymph Amalthea, nursemaid to the infant god Jupiter, with (though incomplete) the goat that supplied the milk to feed him. It was the model for a larger work in marble commissioned by King Louis XVI to adorn the ‘Queen’s Dairy’, a milk-themed grotto added to the Château de Rambouillet to please Marie Antoinette Estimate: €80,000-120,000 26 March, Paris | | | | | | During the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, artist Duncan McCormick set out to defy the general sense of gloom by filling his canvases with eye-popping colour. He certainly achieved that in Pink Sky with Skater, which also embodies his urge to reimagine the British landscapes he has known all his life, creating images that he likens to ‘long-remembered daydreams’ Estimate: £10,000-15,000 20 March, London | | | | | | ‘If you care for this bowl please keep it, it’s the best I can do.’ So wrote Sir William Nicholson to his friend, the publisher William Heinemann, in a note attached to his 1908 painting The Lustre Bowl. The work is said to have been the result of a bet between the two men over whether the artist could accurately replicate the luminous sheen of lustreware pottery, subtly different from that of silver Estimate: £120,000-180,000 19 March, London | | | | | | |
