| This week’s stories Everything you need to know about modern sculpture |  | | How Giacometti, Hepworth, McCracken, Rodin and others — all offered in our 20th/21st Century sales — redefined the art form | | |  | Your ultimate guide to Picasso: his muses, methods, mediums, influences and inspirations | | |  | Why this rare Rolex ‘Chinese Dragon’ Ref. 6100, circa 1954, is ‘more than a wristwatch’ | | | |  | From Nakashima to Perriand, Prouvé and Jouve: discover nine design greats offered in Paris | | |  | Big names, surprising prices — works under $50,000 by Miró, Carrington, Morandi and more | | | | | MORE STORIES |
Editor’s picks | | | The revered nobleman who is the subject of Andrea Vanni’s 14th-century painting The Blessed Andrea Gallerani got off to a bad start, being exiled from Siena for killing a blasphemer. He later repented and founded the charitable Confraternity of the Misericordia, whose oratory still stands in Siena today Price on request Private Sales | | | | | | Albert Cheuret studied sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in his native Paris, hence the elegant artistry of the Art Deco floor lamp he designed around 1920. It takes the form of a stylised palm tree, with a textured silvered-bronze ‘trunk’ and foliate forms appearing to sprout from the top to support the alabaster shade Estimate: €80,000-120,000 21 May, Paris | | | | | | Dating from the 1930s, these Cartier ‘rose à la main’ clip brooches, in the form of hands holding flowers, are made of coral, black enamel, old and rose-cut diamonds, yellow gold, platinum and silver. In a witty and whimsical touch, the wrists of the sculpted hands are themselves adorned with miniature bracelets Estimate: CHF 12,000-18,000 until 20 May, Online | | | | | | This magnum of Le Pin 1982 is seriously covetable: a very rare expression of a legendary Bordeaux vintage from a vineyard producing no more than 700 cases a year. Critic Robert Parker called the wine a ‘flamboyant, exotic, lavishly rich, concentrated, low-acid fruit bomb’ and gave it a perfect score of 100 Estimate: HK$85,000-120,000 22 May, Hong Kong | | | | | | |
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