Editor’s picks | | | Eri Iwasaki works in the nihonga tradition of Japanese painting, using natural mineral pigments on paper. But her subject matter is very much her own, typically focusing on women or children in otherworldly settings. Ideas of self-protection and vulnerability are explored in her 2024 work Warm and Soft, depicting a solemn child in a fantastical fur coat, gazing steadily at the viewer Estimate: $6,000-8,000 18 March, New York | | | | | | In the male-dominated world of mid-century modernism, Greta Magnusson-Grossman stood out as a pioneer. Having emigrated from Sweden to America with her jazz musician husband, she became a sought-after architect and designer with a showroom on Rodeo Drive. This model no. 731 floor lamp, a pared-back style icon in brass and aluminium, was designed in 1948 Estimate: $10,000-15,000 until 11 March, Online | | | | | | There are two main strands to the colour-drenched work of the Californian artist Hilary Pecis: domestic interiors packed with detail, and landscapes bristling with energy — like her 2022 painting Angeles Crest. Pecis is a keen runner, and her views of the trails around Los Angeles are a vivid personal record of how she experiences these lush bursts of wilderness in an urban setting Estimate: £10,000-15,000 until 12 March, Online | | | | | | The Pakistani artist Bani Abidi addresses her country’s history of conflict in a body of work that includes video and photography as well as painting. Security Barriers A-L, a series of prints dating from 2008, anatomises various forms of roadblock she has seen in Karachi, the city of her birth, bringing these often overlooked structures of control to the foreground Estimate: $20,000-30,000 until 25 March, Online | | | | | | |
