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62 Deciphering the Code Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans seeks meaning through light in his sprawling Tate Britain Commission. By Tony Guillan

66 On His Own Terms As collectors are rediscovering, Diego Giacometti’s artful and elegant designs speak of his true nature. By Ben Luke

70 Master of the Sublime With his latest book, interior designer Juan Pablo Molyneux invites the world inside his private sanctuaries. By Christine Schwartz Hartley

76 Market in Motion Ahead of our inaugural sale of Modern & Contemporary African Art, meet the expert leading this fast-growing category. By Mariko Finch

(Left) The vestibule in Juan Pablo Molyneux’s 17th-century hôtel particulier in Paris.

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12 The Scene New York’s Whitney Biennial preview, Passion & Desire in London, a ribbon cutting in Dubai and other events

17 Access Rei Kawakubo’s radical fashion in New York, Documenta’s tale of two cities, the Venice Biennale and more

32 Art World Insider Director Wang Wei shares her hopes for Shanghai’s Long Museum

36 The Costumist Once a crucial part of a man’s attire, tights were a canvas for self expression

40 Curated In ceramics and on paper, Picasso delighted in human and animal forms

42 In the Mix Prestigious vehicles abound at RM Sotheby’s Villa Erba sale on Lake Como

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DEPARTMENTS 44 The Collector’s Eye A Modernist designer’s trove of African, Oceanic and American Indian art

46 Jewels & Watches at Every Price Point A wide range of wearable treasures coming to auction this season

48 Extraordinary Properties When elite architects meet design-savvy clients, the sky is the limit

54 The Art of Giving Actor and activist Sean Penn is on a mission to reforest and rebuild Haiti

56 The Value of Art Rarity may be the most challenging and exciting factor in appraising works

58 The Reginato Files Thomas Kaplan’s collection of art from the Dutch Golden Age is unparalleled

80 Art & Home Featured Properties

A calendar of auctions and exhibitions worldwide, plus selected sale highlights

107 Sotheby’s International Realty Property Showcase 120 Anatomy of an Artwork Patek Philippe’s Calibre 89 remains unequalled in haute horlogerie

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92 Sotheby’s This Season

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otheby’s has been uniting collectors with world-class works of art since 1744, and 273 years later it has grown into one of the world’s leading full-service art businesses. Innovation is in the company’s DNA, and it was that spirit that led to the launch, in 1976, of an exceptional real estate company bearing the Sotheby’s name. The Sotheby’s International Realty® brand is a commanding presence in the representation of the world’s most remarkable properties. With more than 20,000 independent sales associates located in approximately 850 offices in 65 countries and territories worldwide, the Sotheby’s International Realty network artfully unites extraordinary homes with extraordinary lives throughout the world. Art & Home was created at the heart of our partnership and demonstrates the unique synergy that exists between the worlds of art and real estate. Lavishly produced, Art & Home speaks to the sophisticated reader with a passion for ﬁne art, beautiful environments and, of course, exquisite homes – all the elements of an extraordinary life.

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THE SCENE Celebrating Contemporary Asian Art

Whitney Biennial Preview New York top Janine Hill and Astrid Hill bottom Andrew Saul and Denise Saul

New York top left Li Jin top right Ding Qiao bottom Zheng Chongbin

Celebrating Contemporary Asian Art New York Tai Xiangzhou

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Whitney Biennial Preview New York top Marc Glimcher and Fairfax Dorn bottom Stephanie March and Dan Benton

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Sotheby’s celebrated Asia Week with a series of events, including Duke University professor Dr Sumathi Ramaswamy’s talk on artist Maqbool Fida Husain, as well as a reception for the S|2 selling exhibition Explorations in Ink, for which many of the participating artists were present.

Friends and collectors gathered for a first look at the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Hosted by Sotheby’s and Whitney director Adam Weinberg, the tour was also attended by the two Biennial curators, Mia Locks and Christopher Y Lew. The exclusive preview was followed by dinner under a canopy of tulips in a dramatically lit space with views of the Hudson River.

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“Like Art” with VICE

New York top Jon Allen and Shea Gomez bottom Oz Woloshyn and Lisa Dwan

Celebrating Contemporary Curated New York top Jill Kargman and Will Kopelman bottom Dillon Cohen and Ed Cohen

Celebrating Contemporary Curated New York Joanna Cassidy

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Sotheby’s New York Invitees previewed works from contemporary sales and online auctions alongside the S|2 selling exhibitions Raymond Pettibon and Now You See Me. Guest curators and siblings Will Kopelman and Jill Kargman hosted the cocktail reception, which included a performance by the Nat Osborn Band.

24 February Sotheby’s and VICE celebrated the launch of “Like Art” on Creators, the media group’s art and culture hub. The new video series explores the relationship between contemporary art and social media while profiling artists whose work engages these platforms. Guests were treated to a preview of the videos and a surprise performance by a contortionist.

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Art and Music New Delhi, India

London top Dolly Alderton and Cosmo Landesman bottom Pamela Anderson

Some Like It Hot London top Immodesty Blaize bottom Rowan Pelling and Resha Sharma

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SOME LIKE IT HOT 13–14 February Sotheby’s London In advance of the much anticipated Erotic: Passion & Desire auction, guests queued around the block for a Valentine’s Day party featuring performances by burlesque stars dressed by the event’s sponsor, Coco de Mer. Brand ambassador Pamela Anderson and columnist Rowan Pelling, the sale’s guest editor, participated in a panel discussing the sensual works on display.

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ART AND MUSIC IN NEW DELHI 24 February New Delhi, India North India Sotheby’s International Realty and BMW Deutsche Motoren joined with Sotheby’s at the Leela Palace Chanakyapuri to host a preview of Modern and contemporary South Asian art offered in the March auction in New York. Guests enjoyed champagne and canapés while being entertained by the band Shadow and Light.

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London Fashion

London top Simone Rocha and Molly Goddard centre Holly Fulton and Ophelia Lovibond bottom Sarah Mower and Tania Fares

Dubai Oﬃce Opening Dubai top Owais Husain and Rebecca Anne Proctor bottom Alia Al-Senussi and Tarun Mahrotri

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Sotheby’s New Bond Street celebrated the launch of London Uprising: Fifty Fashion Designers, One City, by Tania Fares and Sarah Mower, which examines London’s fashion landscape through the eyes of leading style makers. Along with the book’s editors, Dame Natalie Massenet hosted the event, which included much of fashion’s elite.

Sotheby’s and H E Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the official opening of Sotheby’s gallery and office in Dubai. Later that week, Sotheby’s and Burberry organised an evening of fashion and art, featuring a discussion between Rebecca Anne Proctor, editor in chief of Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia, and artist Dana Awartani.

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Designs from various collections by Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons.

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REI OF LIGHT Since founding her fashion label Comme des Garçons in 1969, Rei Kawakubo has challenged traditional ideas of femininity. For her ﬁrst show in Paris in 1981 – a time of shoulder-padded high glamour – she presented shapeless black garments with asymmetrical hems and shredded fabric. In 1997, her runway collection put forward ﬁgure-

hugging clothes with padded, deforming humps, gallery-like concept stores, nurtured talented while her 2005 show included geisha makeup and protégés such as Junya Watanabe and collaborated antique veils. A retrospective at the Metropolitan with Cindy Sherman, Ai Weiwei and other artists. Museum’s Costume Institute examines some 150 Enigmatic and revered, this creator continues to examples from that startling Paris debut to the surprise. Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of present while reﬂecting on a career in which the the In-Between, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New designer set the trend for pop-up shops, launched York, 4 May–4 September. —BELINDA BAKER

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French poet Louis Aragon once observed that, just like a writer needed words to nourish his art, Henri Matisse found his inspiration in the objects that surrounded him as he worked. The painter’s “studio collection” of items, many amassed during his travels, ranged from Moroccan embroideries to Thai Buddhist statuary. African art shaped the artist’s depictions of the human form, while Chinese calligraphy informed his late cut-outs. This collage of diverse cultural inﬂuences is at the heart of Matisse in the Studio, which shows more than 65 of the artist’s paintings, sculptures and drawings alongside the vessels, textiles and other personal belongings that he kept close at hand. “The object is an actor,” Matisse once said. “A good actor can have a part in ten different plays; an object can play a role in ten different pictures.” To him, these treasures were alive. Matisse in the Studio, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 9 April–9 July; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 5 August–12 November. —BB

(Clockwise from top) Vessels, textiles and other objects in Matisse’s personal collection found their way into his paintings, including Interior with Etruscan Vase, 1940, and Interior with Egyptian Curtain, 1948; as well as his sculptures, such as The Serpentine, 1909 (cast 1948).

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Maria Lassnig’s The Illusion of My Animal Family, 1999.

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IN THE FLESH For most of her 70-year career, Austrian painter Maria Lassnig was largely under-recognised by the art world. But as a painter’s painter, she was admired by other artists for what she called “body awareness,” capturing her physical sensations through self-portraits in animal, alien or abstract states. In the few years since her death in 2014 at age 94, she has been the subject of a number of museum shows, with two more this season. The Albertina has around 100 of her drawings and watercolours, while a survey at the Pitti Palace includes examples from the 1960s to her later, increasingly vibrant canvases. Among the midcareer highlights at the Pitti is Lassnig’s Woman Power, 1979, painted during her twelve-year stay in New York and depicting a ﬁgure towering, King Kong-like, over a city. Lassnig had moved to the US because she saw it as “the country of strong women.” She certainly was one. Maria Lassnig: Woman Power, Pitti Palace, Florence, through 23 June; Maria Lassnig – Dialogues, Albertina, Vienna, 5 May–27 August. —IAN JOHNS

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SENSE OF SELF In his six-book literary phenomenon My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgård exposed the most intimate details of his life. In the landscapes of fellow Norwegian Edvard Munch, the author sees the artist’s troubled soul laid bare, whether in a snowy ﬁeld or in a pine forest at dusk. In this exhibition of 100 paintings and 30 graphic works, many not previously exhibited, Knausgård, as curator, wants us to see “a painter who never found inner calm and who never became stale.” The kinship between the two men lies in their shared subject: the strangeness of life. Towards the Forest: Knausgård on Munch, Munchmuseet, Oslo, 6 May–8 October. —IJ

Louise Lawler’s Life After 1945 (Faces) (adjusted to fit), distorted for the times, 2006/2007/2015.

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(From top) Author Karl Ove Knausgård has curated a selection of Edvard Munch landscapes, including Towards the Forest I, 1897.

In her 40-year career, Louise Lawler has been photographing other artists’ works as they are being prepared for display or hanging in galleries, auction houses and homes. Whether through a Roy Lichtenstein awaiting auction or a Jeff Koons sitting near a collector’s fridge, Lawler offers subtle commentaries on the art world while asking: whose work are we looking at – hers or the artist’s? This survey covers Lawler’s output from the 1970s to the present, including her recent experimentations, in which she distorts previous images or reinterprets them as drawn illustrations. In the era of Instagram and Snapchat, her questioning of the use of imagery and of viewers’ connections with it feels even more acute. Louise Lawler: Why Pictures Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 30 April–30 July. –IJ

A TALE OF TWO CITIES Every ﬁve years, Documenta takes over the German city of Kassel. In a ﬁrst, the 14th edition of the contemporary art exhibition will extend to another city, Athens, which was chosen by artistic director Adam Szymczyk to highlight the relationship between Germany and Greece against the backdrop of the refugee crisis and economic uncertainty. More than 130 artists have developed work inspired by both locations. Argentine artist Marta Minujín will recreate her 1983 replica of the Parthenon made from 20,000 books that were once banned in her country. This version will use 100,000 titles and, symbolically, will be installed in Kassel’s Friedrichsplatz, the public square where, in 1933, Nazis burned thousands of forbidden books. Documenta 14: Learning from Athens, various venues: Athens, 8 April–16 July, Kassel, 10 June–17 September. –BB The Parthenon of Books, 1983, by Marta Minujín. 20

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VIVA VENICE When is the best time to visit Venice? In summer, when it is at its sultry best and full of life? Or winter, when it is moodily romantic and chilly? When the city is hosting the Venice Biennale, the choice is easy. The 57th edition (13 May–26 November) features 120 artists in its main exhibition, Viva Arte Viva , curated by the Pompidou Centre’s Christine Macel . Among the cross-generational and international roster of participants are Kader Attia, Karla Black, Hassan Khan, Gabriel Orozco, Lee Mingwei and Hale Tenger. In what Macel promises to be a Biennale “with the artists, by the artists and for the artists,” Open Table lunchtime conversations between artists and visitors are scheduled each Friday and Saturday through the show’s six-month run. As always, the main exhibition is complemented by curated exhibitions at the 57 national pavilions dotted around the leafy Giardini. Representing Britain is Phyllida Barlow, who uses unprecious materials such as plywood, tinfoil and cardboard in colourful, sprawling installations. Barlow aims to reﬂect post-Brexit anxieties around nationality with a new work that, she says, spills “out of the building.” For Scotland, Rachel Maclean has created Spite Your Face, a “dark Venetian fairy tale” of a ﬁ lm exploring what she calls “post-truth” political rhetoric. The Chinese Pavilion spotlights four

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artists – Tang Nannan, Wu Jian’an, Wang Tianwen and Yao Huifen – who bring a contemporary sensibility to traditional forms such as ink painting and are collaborating on a multimedia show. In the US Pavilion, Los Angeles-based polymath Mark Bradford, best known for his large collaged canvases, is staging works that reﬂect his concern for the marginalised and vulnerable in society. In an ancillary project, he is helping prisoners in Venice sell goods they make in jail. Acting independently, Olafur Eliasson is bringing his ongoing Green Light initiative to Venice. The artist is inviting refugees, migrants and local people to make lamps from recycled materials; proceeds will support displaced populations. While the Biennale mainly takes place at the Arsenale, the former military dockyard, and in the Giardini pavilions, the event always prompts a host of noteworthy satellite shows throughout the city. This year, Damien Hirst is taking over the Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana with Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable (from 9 April), featuring some 250 pieces ranging from small jade objects to a malachite head of Medusa. Russian billionaire Leonid Mikhelson’s Moscow-based V-A-C Foundation is inaugurating a Venice gallery in the 19th-century Palazzo delle Zattere with Space Force Construction

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PERFECT PALAZZO VENICE, ITALY Occupying the entire floor of an imposing 15th-century palace on the elegant Campo Santo Stefano near San Marco, this stunning and highly decorative residence features extensive reception rooms with 18th-century fresco paintings by Angelica Perotti. With its private entrance, six bedrooms and five bathrooms, this grand home offers the ideal refuge for extended family or friends, who will find many opportunities to relax or celebrate on the internal galleried terrace and roof terrace.

(Clockwise from far left) Olafur Eliasson’s Green Light, 2016; US pavilion artist Mark Bradford and his painting Sexy Cash, 2013; Biennale curator Christine Macel; a detail of untitled: stashboarding, 2014, by Phyllida Barlow, who is representing Britain in Venice; and the Riva Lounge at the Gritti Palace hotel on the Grand Canal.

(13 May–25 August), which showcases 20th-century Soviet art as well as a new Barbara Kruger commission. For a sense of Venice’s history of lavish hospitality, epitomised by the city’s glamorous palace hotels, base yourself at the Gritti Palace. This sumptuous 15th-century palazzo occupies one of the loveliest spots on the Grand Canal. Another haven is the intimate and charming Ca Maria Adele in the gallery-fi lled Dorsoduro district. It is also located close to the must-see Peggy Guggenheim Collection, where Mark Tobey: Threading Light (6 May–10 September) offers the first comprehensive exhibition of this pioneering American abstract painter, poet and composer, who found inspiration in nature, Eastern art and Arabic calligraphy. Beyond the Biennale, seek out the city’s quiet alleys, tranquil piazzas and secret eateries. For a breakfast pick-me-up, wander to the Castello district and Pasticceria Alla Bragora, a cosy coffee shop close to the Arsenale, for its honey-filled brioche. And for a Venetian institution that seems to improve with age, head for Antiche Carampane, a short stroll from the Rialto Bridge, to savour local dishes such as spaghetti with spiced shellfish. The Venice Biennale, 13 May–26 November. Tickets are available online or at the Giardini and Arsenale. For more details, visit labiennale.org. –BB

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ART WORLD INSIDER

THE LONG VIEW Under the direction of co-founder Wang Wei, this dynamic Chinese private museum embraces the global art scene while tending to its cultural roots, Chenchen Xu reports.

n recent years, Chinese private museums have experienced a tremendous boom, perhaps none as much as the Long Museum in Shanghai. Founded by mega collectors Liu Yiqian and his wife, Wang Wei, in 2012, and dedicated to presenting a diversity of visual arts – Western and Eastern, ancient and contemporary – the museum has set itself an ambitious goal: to afford its public a global art education while also strengthening and preserving Chinese heritage. That is a tall order, but its director, co-founder Wang Wei, has been more than up to the task. First, ever since its inception, the Long Museum has been sprouting branches like bamboo shoots after the spring rain. Following the opening of the first building in Shanghai’s Pudong New District in 2012, a second one debuted in West Bund in 2014. Last year, an outpost began greeting visitors in Chongqing, in southwest China, and astoundingly, a Wuhan branch is scheduled for 2018. Second, at the West Bund building alone, a series of top-notch exhibitions has kept visitors coming, both for traditional Chinese art and for contemporary installations, the most recent of which, James Turrell: Immersive Light, opened in January. Supported by Sotheby’s, the retrospective features the artist’s light-andspace work spanning half a century, as well as brand-new, site-specific installations that Turrell designed to fit the museum’s physical dimensions. As the show draws to a close on 21 May, director Wang Wei reflects on its significance, as well as on the museum’s mission.

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A view of James Turrell’s Immersive Light exhibition at the Long Museum in Shanghai’s West Bund.

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Why is the Long Museum exhibiting internationally recognised artists? To date, we have organised exhibitions of Olafur Eliasson, international women artists and Turrell. An upcoming show will feature works by British sculptor Antony Gormley. I am committed to promoting cultural exchange between China and the West and introducing distinguished artists from abroad to inspire viewers. I hope to go beyond traditional art, so we can learn about the global artistic milieu today. What are your guiding principles in managing the Long Museum? Apart from presenting international exhibitions, the museum has given much thought to how to promote traditional Chinese culture. Our recent exhibition of Song and Yuan dynasty calligraphy and paintings from private collections attracted many more young visitors than prior traditional art exhibitions. While we strive to foster cultural exchange between China and the West, we also emphasise our own cultural legacy so that more people will understand Chinese culture. I’m emphatic about the museum’s educational calling. Museum education is even more important than what we learn from textbooks. People get a lot more when they come face-to-face with art, which in turn elevates not only the spirit but also culture in general.

Long Museum director Wang Wei.

How did the James Turrell exhibition come about? Two years ago, I was at New York’s Pace Gallery to attend an exhibition devoted to Turrell. The first time I laid eyes on his works I was astonished, mesmerised, by the mysterious play of light and shadow he creates. Almost immediately, I had the idea to bring his dreamlike, high-tech installations to China, so Chinese art lovers could have the chance to experience such fascinating art. I brought this up with Pace and the artist himself, and once we started talking the project took flight. What is your personal reaction to the exhibition? Turrell’s works are amalgams of art and technology. They are magical and deeply meaningful. As soon as you walk in, an immersive installation fills the space with light and texture, producing an illusion of infinite space. The visual illusions extend beyond our imagination, outside the realm of our conventional senses. These installations are, for me, very touching. I’m especially fond of his Curved Glass – the nuanced use of complementary colours enriches the visual effect and creates endless movement, as if it were breathing in a rhythm of its own. It is akin to a meditative experience. Every time I see this work, I am moved, which is why it is part of my personal collection.

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What are the differences between the various Long Museum branches? Pudong, which is marking its fifth anniversary this year, focuses on ancient and modern art, mainly “red” – meaning revolutionary – classics. By comparison, West Bund is more contemporary and international, so apart from Antony Gormley, we will also have a Rembrandt show. And since this is the Year of the Rooster, Chongqing will host an exhibition of fine porcelain “chicken cups.” In addition, plans are already under way to build the Long Museum Wuhan, a space even larger than its West Bund counterpart. Can you speak about your hopes and ambitions? I hope to push beyond the boundaries of traditional art to introduce fine artworks from abroad to the Chinese, so we can all share and appreciate the global art scene. We hope that our collection will complement the National Art Museum of China. Perhaps we don’t have what they have in their collection, but we want to fulfil our own unique mission. I hope the Long Museum will be recognised as a first-rate museum on the international scene and that we continue to thrive and excel. Chenchen Xu is in the press and marketing department at Sotheby’s Shanghai. For more museum-related articles and videos, visit Sotheby’s Museum Network at museumnetwork.sothebys.com.

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THE COSTUMIST

JONQUIL O’REILLY

man’s attire, stockings provided the perfect canvas for self-expression.

(Above) A detail of Anthony van Dyck’s portrait of William II, Prince of Orange, 1641. (Opposite) In Luca Signorelli’s circa 1498 altarpiece, the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian is nearly upstaged by the elaborate stockings worn by the two figures in the foreground.

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Beyond the running track and the ballet stage, these days, gentlemen are rarely seen strolling around in tights. But are athletic spandex or super-skinny hipster jeans that far from the snug leg wear that was the norm for centuries? In fact, it wasn’t until the 19th century that full-length trousers were a typical part of the male wardrobe. Prior to that, while women’s legs were obscured beneath their wide, sweeping skirts, it was the men who truly stole the hosiery spotlight. From medieval times to the mid-15th century, stockings were largely concealed beneath a long tunic, which was eventually replaced by the doublet, a short, jacket-like garment that stopped ﬁrmly at the waist. As men’s upper apparel became progressively shorter, the focus on tights increased accordingly. By the Renaissance, stockinged legs really came into their own. Whether riding out to survey their vast estates or swanning around at court, gentlemen were expected to have supple, attractive legs poised for all physical pursuits. At any given moment, a courtier may have been required to leap into dance at a banquet, be nifty on his pins in a fencing duel, or kneel gracefully into a deep bow. The ideal silhouette consisted of a lean, ﬁrm calf, which was indicative of agility and poise, and a bulging thigh, proof of powerful muscularity and manliness. With so much hardworking leg on display, it was essential they be clad for maximum fashion impact. As depicted in full-length portraits, gentlemen often assumed distinctly balletic

stances, all the better for displaying their lower limbs. Posing for William Larkin in 1613, the suave Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset, for instance, turned his feet outward to show off the lines of his calf encased in a slender silk stocking. To achieve this smooth look, men would wear a first layer of under-hose to disguise their leg hair (no one wants to see that through your white tights, Richard), and then a second, finer layer of over-hose was layered on top. In the Earl’s case, this outer pair was embellished with decorative embroidery to accentuate fine ankles. Over the years, men’s tights evolved with the means and materials available to make them. We have modern chemistry to thank for the stretchy nylon incarnation we know today, but until the 16th century, stockings were constructed from panels of woven cloth, usually wool or linen, which were stitched together to form the leg shape. In Luca Signorelli’s spectacular altarpiece from around 1498, the strapping archers engaged in a spot of martyring offer a glimpse into the endless hosiery possibilities in vogue at the time. The chap at left (who, incidentally, does not yet appear to have mastered his crossbow technique) sports a fetching pair of stockings with panels seamed together to create multicoloured stripes. His colleague on the far right, on the other hand, rocks an inventive diamond-and-arrow knee patch paired with a simpler, two-tone right leg. With the invention of elastic still centuries away, one might question how men achieved such a snug fit. Truth be told, they didn’t. In reality even the finest stockings would have

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rumpled; artists simply depicted idealised, sleek legs and omitted the inevitable wrinkles. It wasn’t until the 17th century that painters such as Anthony van Dyck began to eschew improbable smooth-legged depictions, choosing instead to render stockinged legs as they really were, as in the artist’s likeness of a young Prince William II of Orange in his finery. In an attempt to attain a tighter fit, cloth was cut on the bias – that is, diagonally to the warp and weft weave – to provide a little extra give. The stockings could then be laced behind, using strips of leather or gut, and tied with a garter to better resist the pull of gravity. Signorelli’s archers tied contrasting laces below each knee to pleasing effect, giving the leg more shape. By the 16th century, stockings had become finer and were laced beneath trunk hose – stuffed, padded shorts, such as the splendid pair worn by Richard Sackville in Larkin’s portrait. Spanish stockings of knitted silk, which offered the wearer more stretch, had by now become available and were sold readymade. That development came as excellent news to King Henry VIII of England, who imported all his hosiery from Spain, no doubt finding the extra flexibility advantageous for his favourite pursuits of hunting, fencing and sacking monasteries. The tighter, smoother fit of knitted silk must also have come in handy for luring new wives from around Europe. So gentlemen, take a moment to consider Henry VIII as inspiration. If he was able to take on the Catholic Church and snare six wives, all while wearing stockings, what might you achieve in yours?

(Above) In William Larkin’s 1613 portrait, Richard Sackville (a later inscription misidentified him as his brother, Edward), the 3rd Earl of Dorset, poses to show off his embroidery-embellished stockings.

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Jonquil O’Reilly is an Old Master Paintings specialist at Sotheby’s.

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ANIMAL INSTINCTS Playful ceramics and works on paper from granddaughter Marina’s personal collection speak of Picasso’s deep delight in human and animal forms.

1 PABLO PICASSO Tête de faune $10,000–15,000

3 PABLO PICASSO Homme dans un fauteuil, 1914 $50,000–70,000 4 PABLO PICASSO Visage, circa 1936 $15,000–20,000 5 PABLO PICASSO Vase-femme avec un bras-anse $40,000–60,000

6 PABLO PICASSO Vase aux deux chèvres, 1952 $50,000–70,000 Picasso: Man & Beast will be exhibited in New York from 5–16 May. Auction: 18 May. Enquiries: +1 212 606 7360.

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2 PABLO PICASSO Taureau, 1957 $20,000–30,000

IN THE MIX 1 1953 Bentley R-Type Continental Sports Saloon by HJ Mulliner €1,000,000–1,300,000 ($1,100,000–1,450,000) 2 2014 Ferrari LaFerrari €2,650,000–3,200,000 ($2,900,000–3,500,000) 3 1957 BMW 507 Roadster Series I €1,700,000–1,900,000 ($1,850,000–2,100,000) 4 1930 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 GS Spider 4th Series by Carrozzeria Sport SA €2,200,000–2,600,000 ($2,400,000–2,850,000)

5 1969 Ferrari 365 GTC by Pininfarina €525,000–625,000 ($575,000–700,000) RM Sotheby’s Villa Erba will be exhibited in Lake Como, Italy, from 26–27 May. Auction: 27 May. Enquiries: +44 20 7851 7070.

MAGNETIC MACHINES With some of the world’s most distinguished vehicles oﬀered on the charming shores of Italy’s Lake Como, RM Sotheby’s Villa Erba auction could hardly have more pull.

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THE COLLECTOR’S EYE

MAKING HER MARK Collector and pioneering graphic designer Elaine Lustig Cohen gained renown in the 1950s and 1960s for her Modernist book covers, museum catalogues and bold signage – including for the famous Seagram Building. Cohen’s sharp eye and impeccable taste extended beyond her inﬂuential body of work to her Manhattan home, which she ﬁlled with an eclectic mix of mid-century furniture and extraordinary African, Oceanic and American Indian art. 2

1 Kwakwaka’wakw Raven Mask, British Columbia, Canada, attributed to Willie Seaweed $120,000–180,000 2 Kerewo Spirit Board, Paia’a Village, Kikori River Delta, Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea $10,000–15,000 3 Figure for Malagan, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea $40,000–60,000 4 Dogon Granary Shutter, Mali $12,000–18,000

Art of Africa, Oceania & the Americas will be exhibited in New York from 5–14 May. Auction: 15 May. Enquiries: +1 212 894 1312.

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FP JOURNE A platinum automatic wristwatch with date and power reserve, no. 340-02a, Octa Automatique, circa 2001 CHF10,000–15,000 ($10,000–15,000) Important Watches

Emerald, sapphire and diamond ring, Michele della Valle CHF4,500–6,500 ($4,500–6,500) Fine Jewels

1 June, Geneva

Gem-set and diamond necklace, “Palette,” Michele della Valle CHF25,500–35,500 ($25,500–35,500) Fine Jewels

14 May, Geneva

1 June, Geneva Lacquer, coral, sapphire and diamond vanity case, Cartier, 1930s CHF4,000–6,000 ($4,000–6,000) Fine Jewels

Gem-set and enamel brooch, Schlumberger for Tiffany & Co. CHF20,000–30,000 ($20,000–30,000) Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels

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Pair of diamond earclips, “Palmyre,” Van Cleef & Arpels CHF25,000–35,000 ($25,000–35,000) Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels

16 May, Geneva

OMEGA A stainless-steel chronograph wristwatch with registers and exotic racing dial, ref. 145.022-69, Speedmaster, 1970 CHF15,000–25,000 ($15,000–25,000) Important Watches

Diamond brooch CHF6,000–10,000 ($6,000–10,000) Fine Jewels

1 June, Geneva

ROLEX A yellow-gold chronograph wristwatch with register, ref. 8206, circa 1945 CHF40,000–60,000 ($40,000–60,000) Important Watches

14 May, Geneva

AUDEMARS PIGUET A yellow-gold automatic wristwatch with date, ref. 15202, Royal Oak, circa 2005 CHF8,000–12,000 ($8,000–12,000) Important Watches

14 May, Geneva

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Pair of natural-pearl and diamond earclips, Suzanne Belperron, circa 1935 CHF22,000–32,000 ($22,000–32,000) Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels

16 May, Geneva

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Pair of ruby and diamond earclips, Van Cleef & Arpels CHF80,000–140,000 ($80,000–140,000) Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels

“Oceana Ricci Ring” Shimmering blue-green tones flow around a 6.50carat cushion-cut diamond, set in 18-karat white gold and 18-karat yellow gold $145,000 Sotheby’s Diamonds

16 May, Geneva

Sapphire and diamond parure, “Maillon Panthère,” Cartier CHF92,000–132,000 ($92,000–132,000) Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels

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“Cerise Ricci Ring” with cherry hues surrounding a 3.04-carat round brilliant-cut diamond, set in 18-karat rose gold $140,000 Sotheby’s Diamonds

“The Star of Sierre Leone” diamond brooch, Harry Winston CHF300,000–400,000 ($300,000–400,000) Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels

16 May, Geneva

Emerald and diamond ring weighing 14.49 carats, Harry Winston CHF300,000–500,000 ($300,000–500,000) Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels

16 May, Geneva

PATEK PHILIPPE A platinum split-second chronograph perpetualcalendar wristwatch with register, 24-hour and leap-year indication, ref. 5004, 1997 CHF150,000–250,000 ($150,000–250,000) Important Watches

“Wishbone Ring” Fluid contours compliment a 7.04-carat D-colour, flawless, pear-shaped diamond, set in platinum and 18-karat rose gold Price upon request Sotheby’s Diamonds

14 May, Geneva

Emerald, enamel and diamond bracelet-watch, “Dragon,” Bulgari, 1960s CHF200,000–300,000 ($200,000–300,000) Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels

16 May, Geneva

PATEK PHILIPPE A pink-gold perpetual calendar chronograph wristwatch with moon phases, registers, 24-hour and leap-year indication, ref. 3970e, 1990 CHF50,000–70,000 ($50,000–70,000) Important Watches

Rock crystal, mother-ofpearl, onyx and diamond Mystery clock, “Model A,” Cartier, circa 1930 CHF300,000–400,000 ($300,000–400,000) Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels

16 May, Geneva

14 May, Geneva

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EXTRAORDINARY PROPERTIES

POWER PLAYERS When elite architects meet clients with a passion for design, the sky is the limit, Iyna Bort Caruso finds.

(Opposite) Architect Ignasi Mas i Morell’s design reflects classic Catalan style at its best.

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Ours is the Age of the Starchitect. Elite practitioners have achieved bold-face status, and owning a piece of their work comes with a hefty price tag. According to Inger Stringfellow of William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty in New Caanan, Connecticut, homes by toptier architects can command a premium of as much as 50 per cent over comparables. One example is the $12 million Philip Johnsondesigned Wiley House in New Canaan. A glass pavilion perched on a stone podium, it is a cousin to Johnson’s celebrated Glass House, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and is located just across town. “Homes like this have their own aura,” Stringfellow says. “It’s a privilege to be in them.” While high-net-worth individuals have long sought famous architects, many home buyers today show a genuine “interest in design and how it affects where and how they live,” says Christopher Mercier, a founder of (fer) studio in Inglewood, California. A member of Frank Gehry’s team during the conception of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, Mercier sees this fresh passion for design as a welcome evolution. It makes for the best kind of client – an involved one. “You want the individual’s lifestyle to be reﬂected in that project,” he adds. “Otherwise you’re just making a spec house.” And as savvy clients know, the right house by the right architect may be the most precious possession of all. New York-based writer Iyna Bort Caruso has contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and others.

PALM BEACH FLORIDA

(Above) Ideally located on the north end of Palm Beach, this Peter Marino-designed estate offers all the luxuries of island living. From the existing 1937 home, Marino devised a tropical retreat whose Indonesian-contemporary interior showcases spectacular ocean views. $32,000,000 Property ID: 0076920 | sir.com Sotheby’s International Realty – Palm Beach Brokerage Cristina Condon +1 561 301 2211

KENTFIELD CALIFORNIA

(Right) Award-winning mid-century architect Joseph Esherick and world-renowned landscape architect Lawrence Halprin collaborated to integrate indoors and outdoors seamlessly at this iconic California residence. In grand-scale rooms with twelve-foot ceilings, glass walls bring the outside in, while the kitchen and great room open to Zen-like exterior entertaining areas. $4,995,000 Property ID: D9TFY4 | sir.com Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty Stephanie Lamarre +1 415 806 3176

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WESTERLY RHODE ISLAND

(Left) One of the few Charles Moore-designed homes on the East Coast of the US, Sun Up offers serene living without sacrificing the sophistication expected from a famous architect. Renowned for the remarkable spirit of his designs, Moore created different levels, cathedral ceilings and octagonal wall shapes. The entire space feels open while also offering areas of seclusion. As Moore once noted, “Good places matter.” This is one of them. $1,775,000 Property ID: EV33SJ | sothebysrealty.com Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty Jim Buffum +1 401 741 2836 Desa Buffum +1 401 741 2809

POL DE MAR, BARCELONA SPAIN

(Below) Built by renowned architect Ignasi Mas i Morell, this home is an exquisite example of classic Catalan architecture. High ceilings and commanding arches ensure wonderful spaciousness, and a combination of ornate and earthy textures creates a warm ambience.

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€2,000,000 Property ID: LCENVX | sir.com Barcelona & Costa Brava Sotheby’s International Realty +1 34 93 467 58 10

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NEW CANAAN CONNECTICUT

A star among the city’s legacy of mid-century Modernism, the Wiley House, designed by Philip Johnson in the early 1950s, was restored by Roger Ferris + Partners. The double-height glass pavilion – with a living room and subtly hidden but generous galley kitchen – cantilevers out over the fieldstone base. The slope of the land offers lower-level rooms full views of the property. A new pool house and reconstructed barnart gallery are set around their own separate courtyard. $12,000,000 Property ID: S24GC9 | sir.com Sotheby’s International Realty John Hersam +1 203 417 5198 Inger Stringfellow +1 203 321 9361

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THE ART OF GIVING

Organization, actor and activist Sean Penn has made a mission of providing ongoing aid to the island nation. Sotheby’s and Creative Artists Agency are proud to support the next step in the humanitarian non-profit’s efforts to rebuild Haiti.

(Above) Sean Penn (Opposite) J/P HRO volunteers and staff at work in Haiti. Photos by Liam Storrings for J/P HRO.

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On 5 May at Sotheby’s New York, event co-hosts David Geffen, Bryan Lourd, Sean Penn and J/P Haitian Relief Organization (J/P HRO) are convening artists, leaders of tech and industry and luminaries from the humanitarian aid world to support reforestation and a rebuilt Haiti. Together with cultural partners Creative Artists Agency and Sotheby’s, J/P HRO is announcing Haiti Takes Root: An Auction to Reforest and Rebuild Haiti. This benefit dinner and concert will offer world-class fine art and once-in-alifetime experiential lots with proceeds benefiting a stronger Haiti. Organisers have a curated selection of marquee items for the auction, including works from Ed Ruscha, Henry Taylor, Deborah Kass and Thomas Houseago, as well as special experiences with Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Noma’s René Redzepi. In the letter that follows, Penn explains the next step in J/P HRO’s ongoing humanitarian mission. Dear Friends, In the days immediately following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, J/P HRO was founded to assist in the country’s recovery. This disaster killed 300,000 people in 30 seconds and left two million people homeless. Our organization, which is now over 95% Haitian, has created real change by responding quickly to the needs on the ground. Every year, however, hundreds of thousands still face famine and homelessness from droughts and hurricanes caused by a complex history of deforestation and poverty.

As we look to the future, J/P HRO will work to break the cycle of generational poverty and deforestation by supporting those that are the most vulnerable, yet the least responsible for climate change. To that end, our organization is working with the governments of Haiti and France, the World Bank and others. We are poised to create real change in agriculture, forest cover and overall environmental resilience for Haiti, while at the same time continuing our original mandate. With time, Haiti will become more integral to the global economy. This is change that you will be able to see, touch, taste and wear in markets and retailers across the world. Haiti is not looking for a handout; it is looking for partners and collaborators who can work handin-hand to realize a greener, more sustainable country. This great country will not be deﬁned by an earthquake, hurricane or poverty. Instead, Haiti’s difficult history will be overcome by the will of its people and with the attention and support of a compassionate world. Haiti is taking root. Sean Penn Founder and Chairman of the Board J/P Haitian Relief Organization Works can be previewed at Sotheby’s New York from 28 April through 5 May. To purchase a table or ticket, or to place a bid, please contact Matt Little at Matt@jphro.org. You can also learn more by visiting jphro.org.

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THE VALUE OF ART

In the ten-part video series The Value of Art, global Sotheby’s specialists from across categories discuss the factors that determine an object’s value: authenticity, condition, rarity, quality, provenance, historical importance, medium, size, subject matter and fashion.

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RARITY Assigning value to rare objects is both challenging and exciting, says vicechairman of Chinese art Mee-Seen Loong.

Among the ten criteria Sotheby’s specialists use moments. I love it – it is like finding a long-lost to determine the value of art, rarity may be the relative or a wonderful, known-but-lost ultimate. “Good things are so scarce nowadays,” heirloom. There’s an element of freshness to it says Mee-Seen Loong, vice-chairman of for the market. You know it’s going to prompt Chinese Art in New York. This explains why buyers because there is an inherent excitement nothing generates great auction-room theatre in a discovery.” quite like once-in-a-lifetime artworks. Two Supply and Demand fundamental criteria for rarity are that no more “Even though the field of Chinese art is centuries work is being produced in this particular old, good pieces are so rare today that you category and that the existing pool of pieces is tend to be a little more forgiving. Thirty years diminishing constantly, with great examples ago, I would expect something to be absolutely ending up in museums or private collections. perfect. If it weren’t, I would take the value It takes a sophisticated, and often elusive, down by 90 per cent. But things have changed. equation to factor scarcity into an object’s value, Today demand is so great, and supply is so little, Loong explains, adding: “You cannot really that we will examine something for its rarity place that value on the estimate, but you know and forgive condition issues.” that excitement is in the piece.” No wonder certain works achieve near-mythical status No Room for Debate because of their rarity. “The ‘chicken cup’ is such an iconic object. There are so few of them – I think seventeen Extra-Special Interest or eighteen known examples – which makes “Rarity is a crucial factor in collecting Chinese them extremely rare and highly sought after. art. For example, the best imperial ceramics are If one showed up that was less than perfect, extremely rare. On top of that, if you can prove we would absolutely sell it. We sold one in the that an object was once in a famous collection, 1990s that was in many pieces. But because it it becomes even rarer – provenance combines was extremely rare and desirable, it sold well with rarity to make the piece special. It’s also above its estimate. If that showed up again the most fun factor, because you can gloat and today, we would run and grab it.” say, ‘It’s one of only seventeen known in the world,’ or, ‘It’s one of just two.’”

Chinese art vice-chairman Mee-Seen Loong.

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JAMES REGINATO

THE GOLD STANDARD With his stellar collection of Dutch Golden Age paintings touring the globe and an online catalogue available to all, Thomas Kaplan uses culture to bring

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people together.

(Above) Rembrandt’s 1633 Portrait of a Man in a Red Coat. (Opposite) Dr Thomas Kaplan at the Louvre, where a selection of Dutch Golden Age works from his collection is on view through 22 May.

“When I’m in, I’m all-in,” says Dr Thomas Kaplan during a recent conversation in his Manhattan office, as he describes his philosophy of life. Such innate fervour surely accounts for the success he has enjoyed as an investor and asset manager focusing on the natural resources sector. It also explains how he has been able to amass one of the greatest art collections of our time at warp speed. In less than a decade, Kaplan and his wife, Daphne Recanati Kaplan, have put together – from scratch – the world’s largest private grouping of works from the Dutch Golden Age, an unparalleled ensemble known as the Leiden Collection. This spring, in one of the most ambitious recent efforts in digital art publishing, the couple launched an online scholarly catalogue documenting their holdings, and since February, the Louvre in Paris has been showcasing nearly 30 paintings and drawings from the Leiden Collection. Running through 22 May, the exhibition will then travel to the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, the Long Museum in Shanghai and eventually the forthcoming Louvre Abu Dhabi. Composed of some 250 paintings and drawings, the Leiden Collection largely focuses on Rembrandt and his school while spanning ﬁve generations of 17th-century Dutch painting. Its comprehensive representation of the Dutch Golden Age – principally portrait, genre and history paintings – includes exceptional works by many of the most brilliant artists of the period. In addition to eleven paintings and two drawings by Rembrandt, the grouping (named

after the city where the master was born and began painting) contains thirteen works by Gerrit Dou – who spent three formative years in Rembrandt’s studio starting at age fourteen – and eleven by Jan Steen. Also represented are treasures by Frans Hals, Sir Peter Paul Rubens and Johannes Vermeer, whose Young Woman Seated at a Virginal is the only painting of the 34 known works in the artist’s mature style to remain in private hands. Kaplan’s passion for Dutch masters goes back to his early childhood. “I was touched by Rembrandt in a very deep way when I ﬁrst encountered one of his paintings at the Metropolitan Museum [in New York], when I was six,” he recalls. “When I was eight, and my parents asked me where I wanted to go on vacation I said, ‘Amsterdam,’ because that’s where Rembrandt was from. I was ﬂoored by the beauty of the Old Masters, the richness of the inner life that they were able to capture.” Still, he didn’t own a single Dutch picture until 2003. “I thought they were all in museums,” he explains. But during a sailing trip off the coast of Dalmatia, a chat with eminent curator and art historian Sir Norman Rosenthal, a fellow passenger, altered his destiny. “Norman asked me what I collected, and I said that I didn’t really collect, though my taste was for Dutch Old Masters,” Kaplan recounts. “He said to me, ‘My dear boy, what you like is quite underappreciated and available, though not every day.’” Kaplan continues: “I told him, ‘Well, if you see a Gerrit Dou, let me know.’”

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Not long after, Rosenthal alerted Kaplan to a Dou that was on the market in London. Kaplan snapped it up along with another Dou he found the following month. “For the next five years, my wife and I collected, on average, a painting a week,” he says. “Our passion – our rapaciousness – made us certainly the most aggressive buyers of Old Masters,” the collector confesses. “In many cases, I went directly to the owners of these paintings. Oftentimes, dealers knew where these potentially available pictures were, but they did not have the resources to buy them for stock, or they didn’t think the owners would ever sell.” A driven pragmatist, Kaplan notes: “My methodology gave me a relative advantage. I made decisions often within minutes and paid immediately.” As their collection took shape, the Kaplans decided that they would rather lend their treasures than hoard them. Initially, they did so with strict anonymity. “We had no desire to have a high profile in the art world. On the contrary, I wanted it to be sub rosa,” Kaplan says. “The collection does not have our name, and we didn’t lend with our names.” But lend they did. “I was inspired by the example of Eli Broad’s lending library,” says Kaplan, referring to the contemporary art patron’s early efforts to increase public access to his massive holdings through an enterprising loan programme. (Broad later opened his own museum, of course.) “There wasn’t anything like it for Old Masters,” he continues. The Leiden Collection thus became the world’s singular lender of Dutch Golden Age paintings; its works have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, as well as scores of other museums across the globe. But given the growing stature of their collection, the Kaplans concluded that their anonymity had to come to an end. “We realised that we could no longer be discreetly out of the way,” Kaplan explains. “There was no way a couple could collect eleven Rembrandts and not be part of the story.” In 2006, Kaplan initiated the idea of publishing a scholarly catalogue with the aim of making a contribution to the field of 17th-century Dutch art. A forward thinker, he

(Clockwise from right) Jan Lievens’s circa 1631 Boy in a Cape and Turban (Portrait of Prince Rupert of the Palatinate); Unconscious Patient (Allegory of Smell), circa 1624–25, and Lioness Resting, circa 1638–42, by Rembrandt, all in the Leiden Collection.

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“OUR PASSION – OUR RAPACIOUSNESS – MADE US CERTAINLY THE MOST AGGRESSIVE BUYERS OF OLD MASTERS.”

quickly decided that online was the way to go. “I much prefer to look at auction catalogues online: when my eye lands on an image, I want to zoom in on it,” he says, by way of explanation. “And by putting [the catalogue] online, it can be constantly updated and accessible to everyone.” More than twenty leading scholars, curators and technology specialists toiled for ten years on the project, led by Arthur K Wheelock, Jr, curator of Northern Baroque Paintings at the National Gallery of Art. A marvel of scholarship and technology, this invaluable resource (theleidencollection.com) was launched with appropriate fanfare at a celebration at New York’s Frick Collection in January. As brilliant as the resolution of the images is, it is no substitute for the pictures themselves, some of which the public has the opportunity to see at the Louvre this spring. For the Kaplans, who maintain a home in Paris – where two of their three children were born – the exhibition has much personal resonance. Its future stops in China and the Arabian Gulf have great significance as well, Kaplan explains: “For the Chinese, Rembrandt is the most renowned name in global art. We are deploying Rembrandt as a tool to build bridges between the West and the rest of the world,” he continues. “It is very important to find common humanity, to find universal values and to use culture to bring people together.” But should art not speak to everyone, the Kaplans have undertaken a similarly ambitious feat in the area of wildlife conservation, perhaps their greatest passion. Among the leading funders in the field, they have invested more than $100 million in environmental pursuits over the past decade. One of their primary initiatives, Panthera, founded in 2006, works to protect and preserve big cats and their critical ecosystems. Here, too, the couple has forged global connections. “We have made alliances with partners we have brought in, such as the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi,” Kaplan says, adding: “We have people from all over the world – Gulf Arabs, Chinese, American Jews, Indians – working together.” Whether through Dutch Old Masters or big cats, for these collectors, thinking big means as big as the world. James Reginato is writer-at-large of Vanity Fair and author of Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats (Rizzoli).

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DECIPHERING the CODE In responding to the Tate Britain Commission, Cerith Wyn Evans is pursuing his life’s quest – making beautiful sense of it all. Tony Guillan meets the relentlessly inquisitive, category-defying artist.

ith two kilometres’ worth of white neon tubing arranged in dazzling arrays of lines and curves high above the Duveen Galleries’ polished floors, Forms in Space…by Light (in Time), Cerith Wyn Evans’s installation for this year’s Tate Britain Commission, which is supported by Sotheby’s, cannot be mistaken for another artist’s work. Born in 1958 in Llanelli, Wales, and based in London, Wyn Evans has long grappled with light, whether it be as a young filmmaker or as a mature artist beaming Morse coding of Welsh literature into the night sky at the 2003 Venice Biennale. He is also participating in this year’s edition of the Biennale, curated by Christine Macel, showing his film Pasolini Ostia Remix, 1998–2003. On an all-out quest for meaning and connection, Wyn Evans interrogates everything from art history and philosophy to musical scores and quantum physics, translating his findings and visions into such forms as the muticoloured Murano glass chandelier Astrophotography, 2006, which flashes his personal literary canon in code. Days before the Tate Commission unveiling, Tony Guillan sat down with Wyn Evans to discuss his life, art and the cosmos.

(Opposite) Forms in Space… by Light (in Time), the artist’s stunning neon creation for this year’s Tate Britain Commission, supported by Sotheby’s.

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(Above) Artist Cerith Wyn Evans in front of the supercollider at a nuclear research facility in Switzerland. His interest in quantum physics has led him to visit the site regularly.

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In this commission for Tate Britain, as in your last show at White Cube gallery, you mention Japanese Noh theatre as an inspiration. Why? It is a sort of springboard. John Cage said to Morton Feldman at one point: “Take the first note, Morty, and use it as a springboard into the next.” Noh is kind of the first note. We are leaving the south Duveen Gallery almost completely empty apart from one little figure, which acts as a spyhole and a “you are here” arrow – a portal through which you start the journey.

(Clockwise from top left) Wyn Evans’s Inverse Reverse Perverse, 1997; his Astrophotography…The Traditional Measure of Photographic Speed in Astronomy…’ by Siegfried Marx (1987), 2006; and Neon Forms (after Noh I), 2015.

After Saint Martins you studied at the Royal College of Art, then went to work as an assistant for filmmaker Derek Jarman. how was that? Derek lived opposite Saint Martins, and I used to see him around all the time. He would have tea every afternoon at Patisserie Valerie on Old Compton Street. I didn’t have any idea of what he had done. When I left Saint Martins I was making ﬁlms with a friend of mine, and Derek introduced me to producer Archie Tait, who was just starting up the Cinematheque at the Institute of Contemporary Arts [ICA]. And so it came about that in 1980, I had my ﬁrst show at the

ICA in the brand-new Cinematheque. At the time there wasn’t the fluidity that a young artist would feel now. You couldn’t be a sculptor and a filmmaker at the same time. You were either a filmmaker, or you were a sculptor. There were more rigidly policed boundaries.

When you moved to London in the 1970 s, the Surrealist-oriented Conceptual artist John Stezaker was one of your tutors at Central Saint Martins. Can you talk about his influence? Absolutely. John was so generous with his time and his encouragement, and he really lit the fuse of my enthusiasm. My time with him was spent in his office or in the library, and he would say, “Have a look at this.” He introduced me to ﬁlm theory, feminist literature, French philosophical thought and aesthetics. We read Beckett, Walter Benjamin, the Frankfurt School and Proust.

You use light and sculpture to change the way viewers experience space. Are you also exploring what interior space feels like? I’m able to use the sculpture in the Duveen Galleries as a kind of stage. I am very fortunate that, in parallel at Tate Britain, there is the retrospective of works by David Hockney. It is a good hinge for exploring alternative ways of seeing and the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The question is really: How art now? How art next? Where do we need to be looking? What is going to enable us to be in a better position to draw a map, to open new spaces for experience? Is the context of an installation essentially part of the content for you? Yes. In a way, context and content are insufficient as terms, just like subject and object are. You want to try and somehow ﬁll one through the other in order to get to some kind of synthesis. This piece at the Tate is very much a celebration of that, as much as it is a fanfare toward the idea of context and an enquiry into modes of perception. You have said your work is not autobiographical, but one of your pieces includes a photograph of your father. Why? The most important thing wasn’t that it was his photograph – it was my relation to the history of that photograph as an image in my life. I was interested in the idea of using a screen that was already loaded up with another image. So I created a kind of superimposition, where a moving image is being projected on a barely visible image that already exists. The image was printed in silkscreen, in silver on silver. So it has this strange quality of barely being there. Works tends to act in concert with each other, so installations for me are very much vehicles for reading one piece through another. It is important for me to make pieces that are difficult to photograph because reproductions usually let you down. Many things have a presence and inﬂuence how you perceive art: nuances in temperature; the time of day; how the light falls into the room; whether the show is free or not; where it is being held. These things seem irrelevant, but in fact have enormous impact on what you take from the experience and how long the experience is allowed to keep working. " Tony Guillan is a London-based curator, writer and producer working across visual art, film, interactive media and performance for cultural institutions. Cerith Wyn Evans: The Tate Britain Commission is on view through 20 August. Support for The Tate Britain Commission is provided by Sotheby’s.

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Self-assured and delicate, tranquil and wild, Diego Giacomettiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exquisite designs speak of his true nature. Ben Luke reports on rising interest in the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work.

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ew artists or designers were as reticent as Diego Giacometti, the younger brother of the great 20thcentury sculptor Alberto, a man who was gregarious and brilliantly entertaining in company. By contrast, Diego went about things quietly. His most visible role in Alberto’s work was as his model – his insistent gaze appears again and again in portrait busts and paintings – and he also acted as Alberto’s assistant in the studio. And although Alberto exhibited all over Europe, Diego showed publicly only once, in Paris in 1962, consistently turning down requests for additional exhibitions thereafter. Yet Diego Giacometti’s creations attracted the most discerning and appreciative of clients, as evidenced by Jean Cocteau’s note after he commissioned two chairs: “Tell me what I owe you, although the elegance of these chairs has no price,” the French poet, playwright and filmmaker wrote to Diego. “If I stop at two, it’s that I find them so beautiful that it seems to me I should treat them not as mere furniture, but as works of art.” During Diego’s lifetime, many great artists, collectors and thinkers shared Cocteau’s feelings – among them the Noailles family, relentless commissioners of great Modern art; the couturier Hubert de Givenchy; and the photographer Cecil Beaton. All treasured his tables, chairs, lampshades and other objects. So did Dominique Bozo, the former director of the Musée Picasso in Paris, who asked him to create furniture to set off the powerful works that would be displayed in the grand and historic Hôtel Salé, where the museum would open in 1985. “I did not want a clinical, antiseptic, modern museum. I wanted something warm, elegant,” Bozo told The New York Times in 1984. “I also had to find a link between the decor of the 17th and 18th centuries and Picasso. For a commission like that, I needed someone who [was] really an artist, who was capable of taking charge of the project and making the link.” That person was Diego Giacometti, who died in July 1985, shortly after the pieces were cast, and was thus unable to see his creations in place. Three decades after his magnum opus at the Musée Picasso, collectors are rediscovering Diego Giacometti’s artistry, falling under the spell of works that always marry the singular presence of true art with the sort of elegance that defines the best design. As a result, Diego Giacometti has come into his own on the market. His production is highlighted at two Sotheby’s locations this season: an ambitious library Giacometti executed circa 1966–69 appears in the 16 May Impressionist &

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Diego Giacometti, photographed in May 1962 by Cecil Beaton.

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GIACOMETTI’S MANY ADMIRERS TREATED HIS DESIGNS NOT AS MERE FURNITURE, BUT AS ART.

Modern Art Evening auction in New York and a dedicated auction of his designs is taking place in Paris on 17 May. With such diminutive and poetic works as the horse and tree in La Promenade des amis, the Paris sale offers a broad view of Giacometti’s career and the opportunity to marvel at his ability to combine delicacy and self-assuredness. These qualities are embodied in his chairs and tables, where the plaster animals and ﬁgures that were later cast in bronze and patinated come across as pure sculpture. And yet, thanks to the underlying simplicity and usability of his forms, Giacometti leaves no doubt that these sculptural pieces are also functional objects. Certainly, these same qualities were paramount in his brother’s studio: Diego provided crucial structure and elaborate ﬁnish for Alberto’s sculptures. In the 1930s, when Alberto was connected to the Surrealists but made no money from his art, the older brother earned a living designing furniture, mainly lamps, for the interior designer Jean-Michel Frank – and it was Diego who made them. Later, it was Diego who provided the armature for Alberto’s impossibly thin sculptures in plaster and clay, thus helping his brother’s work achieve solidity despite its extreme reduction. Diego would also cast the pieces in bronze and help attain their patination. His exquisite sense of surface is evident in the library he created for Marc Barbezat, the founder of Editions de l’Arbalète. This was an uncommon commission for an uncommon man, who early in his career published some of the 20th-century’s most acclaimed authors. Typically for Giacometti, the library’s metal and oak structure is robust and straightforward. Many of the shelves are open and glazed, yet the overall frame and several cupboards and

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drawers are clad in undulating, gold-patinated bronze – a clear marker of Giacometti’s touch, which lends the piece the intimacy befitting Barbezat’s desire for this to be a bedroom of books. Enhancing the warmth that Dominique Bozo identified in his work are Diego’s familiar trees and birds, which stand atop the library like sentinels. As Sotheby’s Paris director of contemporary design Florent Jeanniard puts it, these elements inject “poetry, humour and nature” into his creations. Derived partly from a profound love of nature and his native Swiss countryside, these and other bronze wildlife – stags, lions, cats, wolves – appear in several other pieces offered in the upcoming sale in Paris. The late British sculptor Raymond Mason once suggested that an affinity with these creatures reflected Giacometti’s own personality: “By his very nature, he’s a wild man,” said Mason. “All his simplicity is linked up with a savage individuality.” With this, Diego Giacometti’s reluctance to exhibit his work is no longer surprising. Unlike Alberto, Diego did not care for the trappings of the art world. For him it was all about realising a distinctive personal vision, following his own path. ( Ben Luke is art critic at the London Evening Standard and features editor of The Art Newspaper. Impressionist & Modern Art Evening, New York, Exhibition: 5–16 May. Auction: 16 May. Enquiries: +1 212 606 7360. Diego Giacometti, Paris, Exhibition: 12–16 May. Auction: 17 May. Enquiries: +33 1 53 05 52 69.

(Top) Diego Giacometti’s Bibliothèque ($2,000,000– 3,000,000), circa 1966–69, will be offered on 16 May at Sotheby’s New York. Commissioned by French publisher Marc Barbezat, the gold-patinated bronze structure is adorned with the artist’s familiar birds and trees, detailed at left. (Opposite) Table Carcasse à la chauve-souris, circa 1970 (€200,000–300,000), in patinated bronze and glass, is among the works in a dedicated Giacometti sale at Sotheby’s Paris on 17 May.

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MASTER of the SUBLIME With his latest book, interior designer Juan Pablo Molyneux invites the world into his cherished sanctuaries, as he tells Christine Schwartz Hartley.

Juan Pablo Molyneux at his chateau in Pouy-sur-Vannes, in Franceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Champagne region.

ithin the interiors Juan Pablo Molyneux creates, ancient stories are told on ﬁnely lacquered walls, Baroque mirrors converse with august tapestries, and silkvelvet surfaces whisper to Venetian-plastered columns. As wondrous objects grace the highest-calibre consoles, desks and tables, exquisite fabrics upholster sofas, armchairs and walls. Fearlessly opulent while ﬁercely grounded in classicism, Molyneux mixes periods, styles and patterns while always ensuring that every detail of a room vibrates in harmony. Trained at Paris’s École du Louvre and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, he began his career in Latin America in the 1970s before opening offices in New York in the 1980s and Paris in the 1990s. From a mansion in Canada to the Pavilion of Treaties in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and from houses in Connecticut to a 40,000-square-foot palace for Sheikh Mohamed Bin Suhaim Al-Thani of Qatar, Molyneux has done it all – and he is still at it, with indefatigable gusto. Christine Schwartz Hartley caught up with le grand maître shortly after the publication of Juan Pablo Molyneux: At Home (Assouline), a gorgeous volume featuring his own residences in New York, Paris and Pouysur-Vannes, where he owns a chateau.

(Right) A master bath in the chateau at Pouy-sur-Vannes features original wood panelling and a bathtub by Atelier Prométhée. (Opposite) The designer’s office and library in his 17th-century hôtel particulier in Paris.

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One of these properties is Pouy-sur-Vannes, your chateau in the Champagne region. What is its story? Pouy is my home. I have my dogs jumping all over the sofas and playing with the cushions, and I love that. The history of Pouy is more in the stones than in the interiors. Nine centuries of people have been transforming it from a fortress to a chateau to a private residence. We all depend on ﬁlm and television and novels to entertain our minds, but the fantastic thing when you open the door at Pouy is that you start thinking that it was put together stone by stone before Notre Dame in Paris. And then you say, “I want to trace a line through all the people who have had something to do with all

(Above) In the third-floor salon of Juan Pablo Molyneux’s former New York town house, lapis lazuli obelisks mounted on quartz animal bases rest on a Jean-François Oeben commode.

How did your latest book come about? We live in a world that is complicated with issues of security and privacy. In the 1990s, my work was in a lot of publications – clients wanted that. But today, it is the opposite: clients don’t want to be exposed. So when people asked, “When are you doing another book?” I felt I couldn’t publish the best things I had done. What I could publish without having to try to convince any owner were my own houses. I was mistaken, of course, because I have a wife – she’s like a different client! But at this stage of my life, I do have three properties that I am very proud of, and they also showcase the conviction I have that you don’t have to follow patterns: you make them.

these stones” – and it’s inﬁnite and fascinating. Then you start having your own thoughts, talking alone, and hearing your footsteps and the noises all around.

Out of that building, I am doing 23 apartments and four penthouses with swimming pools. It is going to be the most prized real estate in Vienna.

(Above) The colour of a bedroom at Pouy-sur-Vannes matches that of its antechamber; the bed alcove is in the same velvet as the drapery.

What was it like to move to New York after working in latin america? You know, Buenos Aires is more upper-crust than any other place in the world. Things there are so grand and so extraordinary that you can hardly believe people can afford to live that way. In that environment, a person who is extremely chic and elegant knows that sometimes you have to suffer a little. In coming to New York, I understood for the first time, one hundred per cent, what the word comfort meant. In New York, people want comfort first, and if that turns out to be chic, fine. But if it doesn’t, that’s also fine. I am afraid that we live surrounded by mediocrity. My influence here has been to maintain a certain level of elegance. Ostentation can be a bad word, but if it is very honest, it can be very beautiful. I think it is a privilege to be rightfully ostentatious.

Where do you find the pieces that populate your interiors? At Sotheby’s! Really, all over the world: I travel for jobs, for pleasure, and I always have that little side-eye with which I can spot something. I have a vast repertory of sources, and some people keep producing pieces that I like, but my favourite antique dealer is the one who has the right piece, and that’s something you can ﬁnd anywhere.

(Opposite) In the Salon des Montgolfières at Pouy, the original woodwork and vaulted ceiling were painted by Frédérik Monpoint from a Molyneux design inspired by José María Sert.

Can you tell us about a current project? Yes. It is in the city of Vienna, an old palace – we’re talking about a big building, not a royal palace – very beautiful, late 19th century, un peu Napoléon III, and it’s in the Ringstrasse, a very good location.

What are your favourite periods in the arts? I always talk about the late 18th century: France was very powerful, producing all these new things and dispersing them all over. Russia also had very important periods – the mid-19th century and the early 20th century. I love Russian Constructivist art, for instance. As for today’s art, I feel that it is not designed for me. When I see these installations that receive so much press, I feel very good for the artists but very bad for the public. & Christine Schwartz Hartley is a New York-based contributing editor of Sotheby’s magazine. Juan Pablo Molyneux: At Home, by Laure Verchère, with a foreword by Richard L Feigen (Assouline, $95).

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Ahead of this month’s inaugural Modern & Contemporary African Art sale, Mariko Finch talks with Sotheby’s specialist Hannah O’Leary about this fast-growing category.

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ince establishing Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary African Art department in June 2016, Hannah O’Leary has found that collectors’ desire for new artists, as well as museums’ efforts to diversify their collections, has led to major potential for growth in this vibrant field. After studying art history and cultural anthropology at the University of Glasgow, the Dublin-born O’Leary began her career in the Australian art department at Sotheby’s Melbourne in 2005. Moving to London in 2006, she helped launch Bonhams’s first African Modern and contemporary art auction in 2009, and by 2010 she was leading the department. For the past year, O’Leary has brought that expertise to Sotheby’s, which will hold its first sale in the category in London on 16 May. Mariko Finch spoke with O’Leary about this dynamic collection area and its burgeoning market.

(Above) Specialist Hannah O’Leary. (Left) El Anatsui’s Earth Developing More Roots, 2011 (£650,000–850,000) will be offered at Sotheby’s London on 16 May.

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(Left and below) Wosene Worke Kosrof's Beauty of Your Own IV, 2011 (£20,000– 30,000), and William Kentridge's World on its Hind Legs, 2010 (£70,000–90,000), will also be in the sale.

When did you begin your study of African modern and contemporary art? I’ve always been interested in international art. I worked with Australian art at Sotheby’s Melbourne, and then moved to Bonhams in 2006. There I discovered Modern African masters such as Gerard Sekoto, Ben Enwonwu and Skunder Boghossian, whose work referenced local and international art movements while also speaking of political and social changes around them. At the same time, I saw a growing demand for these artists from private collectors, particularly from the burgeoning economies of South Africa and Nigeria. Within a year we started sales of South African art, followed by sales of Modern and contemporary African art in 2009. So African art has been my area of expertise for more than a decade now. The term “African Art” is very broad. Is this a problematic label? An issue arises when Africa is referred to as a country, as often happens in the media. The continent has 54 countries covering a vast area. To talk of African art as if it were one school, or as if artists in South Africa and Morocco had a shared art history – that is incorrect. However, Africa has been largely overlooked by the international art world until recently, and so it beneﬁts from the platform our sales and expertise provide. Do people in Europe make assumptions about the art you are bringing to the market? Absolutely. Many people immediately think of traditional ethnographic art, or of wildlife or tourist art. They do not

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IN THE KNOW | associate Africa with well-known contemporary artists such as William Kentridge from South Africa, or Julie Mehretu, who was born in Ethiopia. The art in our sales deals with contemporary issues such as politics, immigration, race, gender, sexuality and so on. We want to change the clichés about Africa and its art and represent a diverse continent rich with culture, talent and innovation.

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Who are the artists to watch that you are excited about? Njideka Akunyili Crosby, a young Nigerian artist I’ve been raving about for years, made her ﬁrst auction appearance at Sotheby’s New York last November in the Contemporary Art sale, where her work fetched more than one million dollars. I also have my eye on Mohau Modisakeng from South Africa, Eddy Ilunga Kamuanga from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Léonce Raphael Agbodjelou from Benin and Pascale Marthine Tayou from Cameroon, to name a few. How do you see this market developing? I feel conﬁdent that this is a market on the rise. I don’t believe the biggest names from the continent, such as Ibrahim ElSalahi and even El Anatsui, have reached their full potential at auction yet. African artists currently account for less than 0.1 per cent of the international art market – fewer than ten have ever realised more than one million at auction – and so there is huge potential. African economies are growing, museums are looking to internationalise their largely European and American collections, and collectors are always seeking out exciting new artists. What has been your primary focus this year in the run-up to the sale? I have been listening to collectors and curators in cities such as Johannesburg, Lagos and Accra, as well as in the international art capitals of London, New York and Paris, to discover which artists to watch, who is in demand, and also what we can do differently at Sotheby’s. We want to represent the biggest names from the continent in our auctions, those with established reputations who collectors can be assured will stand the test of time. This curatorial approach is very much needed in this relatively young market. What is your advice for getting involved in this fast-developing area? I would advise collectors to get in touch – I am always happy to share my knowledge and advise on where to see the work. Of course I would encourage everyone to travel to the continent, but even in London we have a number of galleries and museums that exhibit work by African and diaspora artists and an annual contemporary African art fair. Plus, some of my favourite artists live and work here, including Yinka Shonibare, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Hassan Hajjaj. As with any art, I would always advise buyers to check authenticity and provenance, and above all, to buy what you love. # Mariko Finch is a Senior Writer for Sotheby’s. Modern & Contemporary African Art will be on view in London 12–15 May. Auction: 16 May. Enquiries: +44 (0)20 7293 5696.

SELECT 2017 AFRICAN ART EXHIBITIONS

> Zeitz Museum Of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town Opening 22 September

Architect Thomas Heatherwick has transformed a historic grain silo into a 100,000-square-foot institution housing one of the most significant collections of contemporary art from Africa and the diaspora. Photographer Roger Ballen (whose Mimicry, 2005, is below) has donated his archive to the museum.

= Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris 26 April–28 August ART/AFRIQUE, LE NOUVEL ATELIER

This ambitious survey includes three concurrent exhibitions: Les Initiés, a selection of works from Jean Pigozzi’s legendary African art collection; Être là, contemporary art from South Africa; and Africa in the Fondation Louis Vuitton Collection, with such works as David Goldblatt’s Diepsloot. August 2009 (above).

The Venice Biennale 13 May–26 November

This year’s edition features the work of Abdoulaye Konaté and Kader Attia in the main exhibition, Viva Arte Viva. In the national pavilions, António Ole is representing Angola and Candice Breitz and Mohau Modisakeng, South Africa; Peju Alatise and Victor Ehikhamenor are at the first-ever Nigerian pavilion.

> Tate Modern, London 12 July–22 October SOUL OF A NATION: ART IN THE AGE OF BLACK POWER

> High Museum of Art, Atlanta 15 October–7 January 2018 MAKING AFRICA: A CONTINENT OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN

Organised by the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, the show explores contemporary art and design through media such as photography, architecture and fashion, including Duro Olowu’s autumn/winter 2013–14 Birds of Paradise collection (below).

This first major exhibition of AfricanAmerican art in the UK in recent years does not showcase African art but explores issues related to the concept of “Black Art” in the US, including the African diaspora, black identity and black femininity. The show will feature 150 works by more than 60 artists working in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles from 1963 to 1983, including Romare Bearden, whose collage Pittsburgh Memory, 1964, is below. The show will travel to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and the Brooklyn Museum, New York.

Performa 17, New York 1–19 November

For the performance art biennal’s 10th anniversary, its South African-born founder, RoseLee Goldberg, has announced the participation of William Kentridge, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Zanele Muholi, Wangechi Mutu and Tracey Rose.

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In the sophisticated living room, an oversize window reveals panoramic views of the ocean and Santa Barbara Harbour.

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Honouring its natural surroundings, this romantic stone villa brings touches of the Old World into the New.

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hen beloved talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, actress Portia de Rossi, first saw this elegant stone villa in the hills of Santa Barbara, they were immediately taken by the pastoral ambience of the Tuscan-like countryside around it – the gentle sunlight, the rugged stone and the reverence its construction had shown for the natural surroundings. Perched on a crest with views of the ocean, harbour and mountains, the secluded estate was designed and built by celebrated architect Wallace Frost in the 1930s. Recently returned from living in Italy, Frost wanted to bring touches of the Old World to the New, so he designed a two-storey residence for himself, emulating the classical style of 17th-century Italian villas with great accuracy. Impeccable attention was paid to every detail, with the classic, barrel-tiled roof, wide-plank wood flooring, exposed ceiling beams, 18th-century Italian tiles and sturdy walls of locally quarried stone creating a refined and romantic atmosphere. Since Frost’s days, the villa has been rejuvenated for modern-day living. DeGeneres says the residence is “always surprising. It reveals itself to you in new ways every day,” she explains. “It’s not overly precious or perfect, and it’s a home that manages to be both spacious and cozy at once.” Secured by 18th-century Spanish gates and approached by a meandering quarter-mile drive, the grounds feature charming fountains, colourful gardens, eye-catching statuary and, of course, plenty of trees. “The surrounding gardens and olive trees are almost as wonderful as the interior,” DeGeneres continues. “The house truly feels like it was built out of the landscape. It feels ancient, like it’s been there forever, like that hill was never without the house. This is a home that honours nature, and I love that.”

“THE HOUSE TRULY FEELS LIKE IT WAS BUILT OUT OF THE LANDSCAPE,” SAYS DEGENERES. (Clockwise, from top) The 16.88-acre grounds begin with a quarter-mile drive through trees, fountains, gardens and statuary leading to a stately motor court; comedian and talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres; an antique Italian column creates a dramatic silhouette on the verdant grass terrace.

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PORTRAIT BY WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ PHOTOGRAPHY BY JIM BARTSCH

Steps from the residence, an idyllic al fresco dining area bordered by a stone balustrade is tucked beneath an allée of mature olive trees, their winding, twisting branches providing cool shade from the midday sun. Beside an alluring Roman-style swimming pool, an antique Italian column creates a dramatic silhouette, most notably at sunset. As the land rolls gently downhill, tall trees give way to a sweeping view of the Paciﬁc and the coastal landscape. Through the acquisition of two adjacent properties, DeGeneres and de Rossi have expanded the estate, which now totals 16.88 acres. A spacious new entertainment facility known as Jordan Hall blends the architectural traditions of the main home with contemporary design, while an additional swimming pool and tennis court offer more venues for exercise and relaxation. “If you think of your home as a canvas, you can put anything on it,” DeGeneres explains. “I tend to keep painting the painting until it’s so done, until there’s nothing left to do. That’s when I sell the canvas and buy a new one.” " $45,000,000 | TheVillaSB.com Sotheby’s International Realty – Montecito Brokerage Suzanne Perkins +1 805 895 2138 Suzanne.Perkins@sothebyshomes.com

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URBAN GRANDEUR In Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lincoln Park, a luxurious mansion evokes the spirit of Versailles.

he crowning jewel in an unparalleled urban estate, this 25,000-square-foot residence, sited on more than 8 city lots, is thoroughly grand but not overwhelming. Inspired by the prestigious architectural innovations of the Renaissance, including France’s Chateau de Versailles, this mansion’s limestone facade embodies the era’s time-honored classicism and its attendant regard for symmetry and harmonious proportions. Inside the sun-filled mansion of North Burlington Street – the finest thoroughfare in the city’s exclusive Lincoln Park neighborhood – no expense was spared: materials and fixtures were meticulously hand selected and sourced from around the globe. Outside, manicured grounds with multiple fountains, a reflecting pool and a hand-forged antique garden pavilion transport residents and visitors to another world. Offering complete privacy, this magnificent estate is perfectly suited for large-scale entertaining as well as everyday living. A masterpiece that could not be replicated in the heart of Chicago, this property truly represents a once-in-alifetime opportunity. "

$50,000,000 | jamesonsir.com | Sotheby’s International Realty – Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty Tim Salm +1 312 929 1564 | tsalm@jamesonsir.com Matt Leutheuser +1 312 929 1562 | mleutheuser@jamesonsir.com

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(Left) Italian stone carvings and antique garden ornaments enhance the residence’s elegant limestone facade. (Above) Surrounded by mature and cultured landscaping, the reflecting pool belies the home’s location in the city.

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(Clockwise, from top) Careful design ensures residences have high ceilings and numerous gallery-quality walls; enchanting views of the historic Flatiron Building from oversize windows; four-inch-thick Calacatta marble countertops and premium Gaggenau appliances anchor the kitchen.

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ith its distinguished brownstones, elegant town houses and majestic mansions, the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Madison Square Park has been a heart of New York sophistication and influence ever since the 1850s. And today, long after beginning life as a commercial and industrial space in 1912, the imposing 24-storey building at 212 Fifth Avenue is reclaiming its rightful place among its neighbours. Topped by a striking crenellated parapet and clad in stately limestone and terracotta, 212 Fifth has been masterfully restored by the New York-based firm Helpern Architects, which has cleverly brought the building’s uncommon proportions and architectural features to the fore. Expansive and loftlike, the homes showcase oversize windows with vistas encompassing such iconic markers as the Flatiron Building, the MetLife Clock Tower and the Empire State Building, along with the verdant hub of Madison Square Park, the ever-changing lights of downtown Manhattan and, of course, the Big Apple’s magical sunsets. A new bastion of elegance and calm in a city that never sleeps, 212 Fifth offers luxurious residences conceived by the internationally acclaimed New York design firm Pembrooke & Ives, which has made each home into an utterly modern celebration of space and light. In addition to book-matched marble foyers, classic coffered ceilings and oakclad floors set in a chevron pattern, the residences include kitchens with Calacatta-marble countertops, custom-designed cabinets and state-of-the-art appliances. The baths are at once modern and indulgent thanks to wide sycamore vanities, freestanding Lacava tubs and polished Thassos stone floors. Fluted Carrara marble walls grace the master baths. Pembrooke & Ives has also made sure that every aspect of life within the building unfolds smoothly. With a dedicated 24hour concierge, stylish lounge, plush screening room, sophisticated boardroom, spacious playroom for children, game room for adults, a state-of-the-art gym, golf simulator, rooms for classes and spa treatments, catering kitchen, valet parking, bicycle storage and refrigeration for food deliveries, 212 Fifth offers a range of amenities designed to accommodate its residents and their variety of needs. Outside, life is just as good. Located in a landmarked neighbourhood rich with history and cachet, 212 Fifth has an immediate and immaculate haven in Madison Square Park and in the surrounding stylish boutiques just steps away. Attractions for the gourmet abound, from Gramercy Tavern and Eataly to the illustrious Eleven Madison Park. Clearly, as reenvisioned by some of today’s greatest residential innovators, 212 Fifth has found new life as a coveted address that epitomises the magic of Manhattan. That the city’s near-mythical area code would be part of its name is all the more fitting. " From $4,800,000 to $68,500,000 | 212FifthAvenue.com Sotheby’s International Realty – Manhattan Brokerage Nikki Field, Mara Flash Blum, Kevin Brown, Brad Ingalls +1 212 935 1212 | Info@212FifthAvenue.com

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Sophistication old and new reigns in this historic Greenwich, Connecticut, farm.

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(From left) Sabine Farm’s oak-panelled entrance hall leads to a doorway overlooking a pergola-covered terrace; the idyllic farm spans more than nineteen acres of rolling lawns, allées of trees and formal gardens.

esigned in the early 20th century by New York architects Hunt & Hunt for then publishing magnate H J Fisher, Sabine Farm is a regal fieldstone manor on Round Hill in Greenwich, Connecticut. Described and illustrated in detail in the November 1916 issue of The Architectural Record, the estate spans more than nineteen acres of rolling lawns, allées of trees and formal gardens. An idyllic country residence, it exceeds all expectations for a property that is just over one hundred years old. While the main farm’s original, museum-quality appointments – centre-cut English oak panelling, plaster friezes and handsome fireplaces – have been meticulously restored, New York’s Pamela Banker Associates has updated the residence with inspiring new decor, including imported wall coverings, carpets and draperies. A century after The Architectural Record noted the estate’s “cheerfulness and hospitality,” these qualities remain in ample evidence, with arched entry doors opening to an expansive reception hall and its three-storey staircase; a grand living room’s French doors leading to a serene water garden; and a formal dining room featuring leaded-glass windows, a fireplace and an adjoining seasonal dining porch. The panelled library’s fireplace with a Caen-stone mantel continues to draw praise, as do antique friezes by William A Mackay. While the ground floor is dedicated to living and entertaining, the upper level focuses on rest, with six bedrooms. The master suite’s two dressing rooms, luxurious baths, fireplaces and office make it a perfect temporary retreat. Outside, of course, acres of beautiful land offer myriad activities, including dozing by the alluring swimming pool and cabana. For a historic property, Sabine Farm possesses all the ingredients of luxurious 21stcentury living. # $31,500,000 | SabineFarm.com Sotheby’s International Realty – Greenwich Brokerage Leslie McElwreath +1 917 539 3654 Leslie.McElwreath@sothebyshomes.com

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MAY–JUNE 2017

Upcoming auctions and exhibitions in North America, Europe and Asia. All Sotheby’s exhibitions are free and open to the public.

MAY

1 S|2 Selling Exhibition

RENATE BERTLMANN MARIA LASSNIG 27 April–2 June, London

Online Auction

LATIN AMERICA: MODERN ART ONLINE Exhibition 20–25 May, New York Online Auction 2–26 May Online Auction

LATIN AMERICA: CONTEMPORARY ART ONLINE Exhibition 20–25 May, New York Online Auction 2–26 May

COLLECTIONS (Above) ROLEX A stainless-steel chronograph wristwatch with registers and bracelet, ref. 6262 Daytona “Paul Newman,” circa 1970 $60,000–90,000 Important Watches

7 June, New York (Below)

Gems and Jewels from a Superb Private Collection Pair of ruby and diamond earclips, Van Cleef & Arpels CHF80,000–140,000 Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels

16 May, Geneva

Exhibition 28 April–1 May Auction 2 May, London

MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART Exhibition 27–29 April, 2–3 May Auction 4–5 May, Milan

FROM EARTH TO FIRE Exhibition 28 April–3 May Auction 4 May, London

10 Exhibition 6–9 May Auction 10 May, London

MENAGERIE: AN ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION OF CHINESE ANIMAL CARVINGS Exhibition 6–9 May Auction 10 May, London

15 ART OF AFRICA, OCEANIA, AND THE AMERICAS Exhibition 5–14 May Auction 15 May, New York

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ALFONSO OSSORIO Exhibition 1 May–9 June New York

3 OLD MASTERS Exhibition 28 April–2 May Auction 3 May, London

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S|2 Selling Exhibition

Selling Exhibition

PERCEPTION: CAI XIAOSONG 5–19 May, Hong Kong

(Above) ROY LICHTENSTEIN Standing Explosion #3 (Yellow), 1965 $600,000–800,000 Contemporary Art Day

19 May, New York (Below) JEROEN VERHOEVEN Lectori Salutem, 2010 $150,000–250,000 Important Design

6 June, New York

TRAVEL, ATLASES, MAPS & NATURAL HISTORY Exhibition 5–8 May Auction 9 May, London

14 IMPORTANT WATCHES Exhibition 11–13 May Auction 14 May, Geneva

17 IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART DAY Exhibition 5–16 May Auction 17 May, New York

FINEST & RAREST WINES Auction 17 May, London

DESIGN Exhibition 12–13, 15–16 May Auction 17 May, Paris

16 IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART EVENING Exhibition 5–16 May Auction 16 May, New York

MODERN & CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART Exhibition 11–12, 14–15 May Auction 16 May, London

MAGNIFICENT JEWELS AND NOBLE JEWELS Exhibition 11–15 May Auction 16 May, Geneva

DIEGO GIACOMETTI Exhibition 12–13, 15–16 May Auction 17 May, Paris

19 CONTEMPORARY ART DAY Exhibition 5–18 May Auction 19 May, New York (Above)

Property of a Noble Family Emerald and diamond necklace, late 19th century CHF500,000–800,000 Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels

16 May, Geneva (Above right)

Property from the Private Collection of Robert Motherwell and Renate Ponsold Motherwell MAX ERNST Le Roi jouant avec la reine, conceived in 1944 $4,000,000–6,000,000 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening

16 May, New York

PHOTOGRAPHS Exhibition 12, 14–18 May Auction 19 May, London

18 CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING Exhibition 5–18 May Auction 18 May, New York

PICASSO: MAN & BEAST Exhibition 5–16 May Auction 18 May, New York

20 23 AMERICAN ART Exhibition 20–23 May Auction 23 May, New York

THE BALLYEDMOND COLLECTION Exhibition 19, 21–23 May Auction 23–24 May, London

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS & CONTINENTAL BOOKS Exhibition 18–19, 21–22 May Auction 23 May, London

MUSICAL MANUSCRIPTS Exhibition 18–19, 21–22 May Auction 23 May, London

27 RM SOTHEBY’S VILLA ERBA Exhibition 26–27 May Auction 27 May Lake Como, Italy

(Below) A model K6 cast-iron telephone box designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, mid-20th century $500–1,000 Two Collections Online: Paintings & Objects Through the Centuries

2–19 June, Online

50 YEARS OF COLLECTING, THE DON STOTT CELLAR PART III Auction 20 May, New York

24 EUROPEAN ART Exhibition 20–23 May Auction 24 May, New York

25 LATIN AMERICA: MODERN ART & CONTEMPORARY ART Exhibition 20–25 May Auction 25 May, New York

IOLAS Exhibition 21–23 May Auction 25 May, London

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1 FINE JEWELS Auction 1 June Geneva

CHINESE ART Online Auction

PAINTINGS & OBJECTS THROUGH THE CENTURIES Exhibition 6–19 June, New York Online Auction 2–19 June

6 IMPORTANT DESIGN (Above) JESÚS RAFAEL SOTO Sans Titre (Vibración), circa 1960 $300,000–400,000 Latin America: Contemporary Art

25 May, New York (Below) ARISTIDE MAILLOL Ile-de-France, conceived in 1925 $700,000–1,000,000 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening

16 May, New York

Exhibition 2–5 June Auction 6 June New York

THE ESTATE OF CAROL FERRANTI: MASTERWORKS BY TIFFANY STUDIOS Exhibition 2–5 June Auction 6 June New York

RUSSIAN PICTURES Exhibition 30 May–5 June Auction 6 June London

RUSSIAN WORKS OF ART, FABERGÉ & ICONS Exhibition 30 May–5 June Auction 6 June London

19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN PAINTINGS Exhibition 2–5 June Auction 6 June London

CONTEMPORARY ART Exhibition 2–6 June Auction 6–7 June Paris

9 COLLECTIONS: EUROPEAN DECORATIVE ARTS Exhibition 3–9 June Auction 9 June, New York

15 OLD MASTER & 19TH CENTURY PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS & SCULPTURES Exhibition 10, 12–14 June Auction 15 June, Paris

Auction 1–2 June, Hong Kong

Property from an Important Asian Collection A magnificent and rare large carved cinnabar lacquer dish, Ming dynasty, Hongwu or Yongle period £400,0000–600,000 Important Chinese Art

10 May, London

3 FINE TIMEPIECES Auction 3 June Hong Kong

7 IMPORTANT WATCHES Exhibition 2–6 June Auction 7 June New York

THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM O’BRIEN: PROPERTY OF THE MILLTOWN PARK CHARITABLE TRUST Exhibition 3–6 June Auction 7 June London

8 MASTER PAINTINGS Exhibition 3–7 June Auction 8 June New York

IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART Exhibition 3–7 June Auction 8 June New York

13 FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS, INCLUDING AMERICANA Exhibition 9–12 June Auction 13 June New York Selling Exhibition

VISUAL DIALOGUES: HONG KONG THROUGH THE LENS OF FAN HO 13–30 June Hong Kong

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Bid Join in the excitement of the auction in person, by phone or online. You decide when to stop bidding, and therefore you only pay as much as you think a work of art is worth.

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Enjoy! The thrill of acquiring a painting or drawing may start with the auction, but the pleasure of living with your art lasts a lifetime.

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braques goes here T# 085N09710

his season’s Impressionist &

and Laura Finn, collectors and friends

Modern Art Evening sale features

of Henry Moore. Artists represented in

an array of paintings, works on

the Finn collection include not only Moore

paper and sculptures by leading artists

but also Germaine Richier, Jean Arp,

of the late 19th and early 20th centuries,

Alberto Giacometti and Marino Marini.

including this large-scale work by Georges

Other sale highlights include Max Ernst’s

Braque. Painted in 1937, La Pianiste is an

most celebrated sculpture from the

evocative depiction of a woman seated

private collection of Robert Motherwell

at her piano and belongs to one of the

and Renate Ponsold Motherwell, a

artist’s most important series. The sale

breathtaking scene of Vétheuil painted by

also includes a wonderful group of

Claude Monet and a suprematist

sculptures from the collection of David

composition by Kazimir Malevich.

(Above) PABLO PICASSO Le Peintre et son modèle dans un paysage, 1963 $4,000,000–6,000,000 (Opposite) GEORGES BRAQUE La Pianiste, 1937 $6,000,000–8,000,000 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening

16 May, New York

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otheby’s Contemporary Art Evening auction on 18 May will present an extraordinary selection of

touchstones from recent art history. The

prestigious exemplars of Pop art, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism and

(Above) ROY LICHTENSTEIN Nude Sunbathing, 1995 Estimate upon request

Postmodernism alongside various groundbreaking paintings and sculptures by the most influential artistic innovators of our time.

(Opposite) DAVID HOCKNEY Gauguin’s Chair, 1988 $2,500,000–3,500,000 Contemporary Art Evening

18 May, New York

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contemporary art, with truly rare and

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n celebration of the 10th anniversary of our first dedicated Noble Jewels sale, we are delighted to present

several fine pieces with impeccable provenance. Highlights include an Art Deco Cartier brooch formerly in the collection of Mona von Bismarck and a diamond rivière from the Collection of the Princess de Poix. The sale also features an important array of coloured diamonds led by The Apollo and Artemis Diamonds, a spectacular pair of fancy vivid blue and fancy intense pink diamonds, and a selection of coloured gemstones and signed jewels.

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Property of a Lady The Apollo and Artemis Diamonds Exceptional fancy vivid blue diamond weighing 14.54 carats, internally flawless, type IIb CHF37,800,000– 49,700,000 Important fancy intense pink diamond weighing 16.00 carats, VVS2 clarity, type IIa CHF12,425,000– 17,890,000 Mounted as a pair of earrings Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels

16 May, Geneva

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oming to auction for the first time in its history, White Doors exemplifies the quiet poetry

of Vilhelm Hammershøi’s interiors, while the bustling splendour of Paris is evoked in Edmond-Georges Grandjean’s view of the Boulevard des Italiens. Other highlights include a rediscovered oil by Federico Zandomeneghi and an exuberant still life, Dahlias and Other Flowers, by Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa.

(Above) EDMOND-GEORGES GRANDJEAN Le Boulevard des Italiens, 1876 £200,000–300,000 19th Century European Paintings

6 June, London

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(Left) DIEGO RIVERA Retrato de la actriz Matilde Palou, 1951 $2,000,000–3,000,000 Latin America: Modern Art

25 May , New York

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taly is the perfect destination for art lovers this spring, with Sotheby’s two-day sale of Modern &

Contemporary Art in Milan taking place days before the inauguration of the 57th Venice Biennale. Our auction features a strong and vibrant selection of works from the post-war period to the present, with exceptional pieces by Lucio Fontana and extraordinary examples by Alberto Burri. Impressive examples of Spatialism by Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani, Paolo Scheggi and Agostino Bonalum are also offered, alongside rare Arte Povera works by Alighiero Boetti and a remarkable piece by Giulio Paolini.

(Above right) LUCIO FONTANA Concetto spaziale, Attese, 1966 €700,000–900,000 (Right) ALBERTO BURRI Combustione plastica, 1967 €500,000–700,000 Modern & Contemporary Art

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ieter Brughel the Younger’s well-known Adoration of the Magi highlights this sale, which also

includes discoveries such as the notable Rape of Helena by Isaac Moillon, brother of Louyse Moillon. The classical period is represented by an impressive Capriccio by Jean Lemaire, a close collaborator with Nicolas Poussin. This year’s selection of 19th-century paintings is diverse and features a magnificent Portrait of Joachim Murat by Gérard, two spectacular views of Venice by Van Moer and an enigmatic portrait by Lévy-Dhurmer. European sculpture and works of art are represented with a selection of early medieval to 19th-century masterpieces, including Renaissance bronzes and remarkable baroque to neoclassical sculptures.

PIETER BRUEGHEL THE YOUNGER Adoration of the Magi €400,000–600,000 Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture

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ur spring sale of Important Chinese Art showcases a number of private collections

of imperial porcelains and works of art. Leading the sale is an outstanding and incredibly rare dish from the Yongle period that boasts an impressive provenance. The sale also offers Buddhist gilt-bronze figures, jade carvings and imperial ceramics spanning the breadth and distinction of Chinese aesthetics and craftsmanship.

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Property from an Important Asian Collection A magnificent and rare large carved cinnabar lacquer dish, Ming dynasty, Hongwu or Yongle period £400,000–600,000 Important Chinese Art

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ST. BARTH CARIBBEAN

St. Barth’s Most Spectacular Estate Nine bedrooms including a caretaker residence. Panoramic views including, the islands of Saba and Statia and year round sunsets. Private five bedroom main residence, two bedroom guest house, and two pools. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID 9KSEEX ST. BARTH PROPERTIES SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY +1 508 570 4481, +590 590 29 90 10 TOM.SMYTH@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

€53,000,000

PROVIDENCIALES TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS

Turtle Tail Estate This new estate is one to fall in love with, combining the personalization of a custom home with the amenities of an ultra-luxury resort, elevated on a private, approximately five acre peninsula. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID NKDEPK TURKS & CAICOS SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY NINA SIEGENTHALER, JOE ZAHM +1 649 231 0707, +1 649 231 6188 NINA.SIEGENTHALER@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$25,000,000 US

ALBANY, NASSAU BAHAMAS

Charles 2A Five bedroom, five and one half bath luxury marina residence spanning 6,299 sq. ft. with media room, Crestron Smart Home system, custom upgrades and designer furnishings. Resort amenities, 24 hour concierge. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID 4ZV66Y DAMIANOS SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY LANA RADEMAKER +1 242 457 0406 LANA.RADEMAKER@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$7,900,000

OLD FORT BAY BAHAMAS

Club Villas #8 Colonial four bedroom 3,104 sq. ft. Club Villa, complete with spacious verandas and charming plantation shutters, in a gated beachfront community. A two minute walk to the clubhouse, pool, and beach. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID 7C64BP OLD FORT BAY SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY CRAIG PINDER +1 242 457 2282 CRAIG.PINDER@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$2,500,000

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SYDNEY AUSTRALIA

The Hordern Home Home to the Hordern family, one of Australia’s most important and influential dynasties, this is an offering entrenched in the nation’s history. Occupying over 29,000 sq. ft., this unique estate is presented to the market for the first time since construction in 1935. Arguably the finest example of the renowned architect Professor Leslie Wilkinson’s iconic style, the house effortlessly embodies classical and Mediterranean influences. Palatial interiors open to sandstone terraces, private courtyards, beautiful gardens and breathtaking harbor views. Versatile with eight bedrooms, two offices, a self-contained apartment, and formal living and dining rooms, there is a wealth of entertaining spaces. Beloved by members of European royalty and aristocratic society, this extraordinary residence has entertained such dignitaries as Prince Philip and Lord Louis Mountbatten. An icon of unrivaled stature and grace designed to be appreciated within the context of decades, this exceptional property is an heirloom for generations to enjoy. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID CHBHLN SYDNEY SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY JAMES MCCOWAN, MICHAEL PALLIER +61 418 800 400 JAMES.MCCOWAN@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM +61 417 371 522 MICHAEL.PALLIER@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

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BEVERLY HILLS CALIFORNIA

Opulent John Byers, AIA 1920’s Estate Richly detailed Beverly Hills Spanish compound steeped in Hollywood glamour, designed by John Byers, AIA sited on a lush and private one and one quarter acres with sweeping city and ocean views. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, WEB ID 0344078 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY PACIFIC PALISADES BROKERAGE ENZO RICCIARDELLI, SUZETTE ABBOTT +1 310 255 5467, +1 818 621 4908 ENZO.RICCIARDELLI@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$26,900,000

PASADENA CALIFORNIA

John S. Cravens Estate Situated on “Millionaire’s Row” along tree-lined Orange Grove Boulevard and Madeline Drive, is a Cultural Heritage Landmark and one of the largest and most significant architectural treasures in Pasadena. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 0027629 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY PASADENA AND BEVERLY HILLS BROKERAGES GRETCHEN B. SEAGER, JOSIE TONG +1 626 396 3973, +1 310 808 8808

$10,500,000

GLEN ELLEN CALIFORNIA

Surrounded by Views Wine country compound includes authentic villa with contemporary interiors, guest house, fabulous terraces, pool. Approximately twenty one and one half acres, two parcels, orchards, vines. Near historic towns. SOTHEBYHOMES.COM, WEB ID 0244257 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY WINE COUNTRY BROKERAGE TINA SHONE +1 707 799 7556 TINA.SHONE@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$6,195,000

SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA

Art Home Enterprise Historic 1860s brewery building, anchored in rich history as art space since the sixties, reborn as an environment for entrepreneurial pursuits in one of the most creative territories on the globe. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 0088275 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY SAN FRANCISCO BROKERAGE WENDY STORCH +1 415 519 6091 WENDY.STORCH@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$4,500,000

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NEWPORT COAST CALIFORNIA

Villa Del Lago Evoking the timeless feel of a European estate, Villa del Lago combines classic tradition with every convenience. Recently completed using exquisite materials sourced from Italy, the 17,000 plus sq. ft. villa is set on over 12 acres. It is a secluded oasis, private and secure, with panoramic views of coastal canyons, city lights, and the Pacific. Beyond the gatehouse is a cascading lake of over one acre, tennis court, stable, riding ring, putting green, pool pavilion, organic garden, and lake side wine cave. Its sun-blessed slopes are perfect for a vineyard. Finishes include rare marble and limestone, intricate ceilings, gold leaf, and artisan ironwork. Professional kitchen, butler’s kitchen, china/silver room, conservatory dining, wood-paneled lounge with bar and boardroom, and a master wing with living and screening rooms. A caterer’s kitchen with roll-up door is perfect for entertaining. Basement level amenities include an indoor pool, high-tech theater, gym and sauna, wine cellar, and staff rooms. Garaging for 14 plus cars. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM PROPERTY ID 4Z876J HÔM SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY JOHN STANALAND +1 949 689 9047 JOHN.STANALAND@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$55,000,000

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SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA

Iconic Mediterranean Masterpiece Newly constructed oceanfront estate, uniquely positioned on the southernmost waterfront lot in Del Mar, with unparalleled, unobstructed ocean views to La Jolla and down the San Diego Coast. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID X8PE3G PACIFIC SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY ERIC IANTORNO +1 858 256 7005 ERIC.IANTORNO@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$29,000,000

MONTECITO CALIFORNIA

Riven Rock Neo-Classical Style A newly constructed, approximately 4,680 sq. ft. three bedroom estate on approximately one and one half acres of the former McCormick Estate. Two pool cabanas, a pool/spa, and majestic mountain views. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 0114060 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY SANTA BARBARA BROKERAGE SUZANNE PERKINS +1 805 895 2138 SUZANNE.PERKINS@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$9,150,000

DRUMMOND MONTANA

Bearmouth Legacy Ranch Nestled between the river and mountains on 8,200 acres, the Bearmouth Legacy Ranch is a rare find. Luxury lodge, expansive outdoor living area, shooting range, prime hunting. Acreage options. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID 8P84Y6 GLACIER SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY DAWN MADDUX +1 406 550 4131 DAWN.MADDUX@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$8,550,000-$15,900,000

SCOTTSDALE ARIZONA

Single Level Masterpiece Breathtaking property situated on a generous 40,000 sq. ft. lot with breathtaking unobstructed mountain views. Privately gated drive, master suite, top of the line appliances. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID BZVJT2 RUSS LYON SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY FRANK AAZAMI, KAI NEIGHBORS +1 480 266 0240, +1 602 614 6568 FRANK.AAZAMI@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$2,250,000

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OAKLEY UTAH

The Sunset Ranch Outside Park City This home and property is so unique and amazing that it was featured in Architectural Digest. Situated on 113 acres in the beautiful Uinta Mountains, it is close to Park City/Deer Valley. The architecture is an affectionate tribute to the properties Western heritage. The design’s modern lines naturally mesh with century-old reclaimed barn wood, hand-hewn timbers, interior walls of local stone and rusted metal roofs to create a beautiful ranch property that is authentically Western. Large windows frame the panoramic views of the mountains and valley. There are three bedroom suites, including an expansive master wing, plus a separate guest apartment and comfortably appointed loft above the barn, offering both family and guests privacy for gatherings. Nine fireplaces, three kitchens, an outdoor infinity pool and cabana, a separate elevated hot tub, sauna /steam, screening room, winding trails with a stream, a horse corral, pasture, and acres of beautiful grass with trees and flowers help make this a rare and exclusive property. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID DEC5E8 SUMMIT SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY PETER LINSEY +1 435 901 8808 PETER.LINSEY@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$7,995,000

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KREMMLING COLORADO

Aspen Grove Ranch Three majestic mountain views surround this 24,000 sq. ft. ranch home near Kremmling. Located 15 minutes from a jet airport and two hours from Denver, this 350 acre ranch is a mountain masterpiece. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID ZW394M LIV SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY JACK WOLFE +1 970 368 0018 JACK.WOLFE@SOTHEBYSREALTYCOM

$28,500,000

VAIL COLORADO

Iconic Vail Estate The closest large estate to Vail Village. The elegant main home and guesthouse with outdoor pool and patio have huge Gore Range views and ultimate privacy. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID KLNEG4 LIV SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY MALIA COX NOBREGA, JONI WHITE TAYLOR +1 970 390 1402 MALIA.NOBREGA@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$19,950,000

EVERGREEN COLORADO

French-Inspired Chateau on 35 Acres Modeled after the Biltmore Mansion in Asheville, North Carolina, this limestone masterpiece is nine years in the making and a true marvel of craftsmanship and design with world-class views. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID 434LXF LIV SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY WHITNEY CAIN, ROSEMARY NIGH, EMILY HENDERSON, JENNIFER DAVENPORT +1 720 934 8185 WHITNEY.CAIN@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$17,500,000

CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE COLORADO

The Ultimate Modern Estate Perfectly sited on private two and one half acres. Open floor plan with a seamless, organic flow. Smooth and flawless transitions from inside to outside. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID Y2Q6BB LIV SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY LINDA BEHR, JOSH BEHR +1 720 275 7725 LINDA.BEHR@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$9,500,000

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BOCA GRANDE FLORIDA

Las Olas Gasparilla Island’s most historically significant seven bedroom, six bath Gulf front residence originally built by Francis and Louise du Pont Crowninshield. 145 ft. of Gulf frontage and one acre. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID WVQZPX GULF TO BAY SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY RICH TAYLOR +1 941 258 0036 RICH@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$14,650,000

SARASOTA FLORIDA

Extraordinary Waterfront Paradise This residence on world-famous Siesta Key showcases remarkable modern design, state-of-the-art innovation and an exceptional use of materials and finishes. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID 6DXWQE PREMIER SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY JOEL SCHEMMEL +1 941 587 4894 JOEL.SCHEMMEL@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$4,995,000

CHICAGO ILLINOIS

11 East Walton #3802 - The Waldorf Residences An entertainer’s paradise featuring 4,000 sq. ft, 10 ft. ceilings, magnificent art walls, two private terraces and forever views. Experience all the Waldorf Hotel amenities and services. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID N73T3R JAMESON SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY NANCY TASSONE +1 312 215 9701 NANCY.TASSONE@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$4,725,000

MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON

Historic Masterpiece Award-winning single family residence in Boston’s prestigious Beacon Hill. Complete with an elevator, an au pair suite and a charming front garden entrance. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID KDYVT3 GIBSON SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY MICHAEL L. CARUCCI, JAMIE N. IMPERATO +1 617 901 7600, +1 917 299 9026 MICHAEL.CARUCCI@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$3,900,000

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GREENWICH CONNECTICUT

Sabine Farm Set on 19.48 Mid-Country Acres An unrivaled estate comprised of three lots featuring an exquisitely restored and expanded 1910 Manor home, guest house, pool, formal gardens, reflecting pools, rolling lawn and open meadow. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 0068426 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY GREENWICH BROKERAGE LESLIE MCELWREATH +1 917 539 3654 LESLIE.MCELWREATH@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$31,500,000

NEWPORT RHODE ISLAND

Luxury Condominium at the Marina 2,400 sq. ft. waterfront condominium offers exquisite views and westerly exposure. Amenities include double master suites, designer bathrooms, gourmet kitchen and guaranteed dockage at adjacent marina. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID 8KN4EW MOTT & CHACE SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY +1 401 789 8899

$2,425,000

LITTLE COMPTON RHODE ISLAND

Coastal Treasure Pastoral estate overlooking the Sakonnnet River offers ample outdoor entertaining areas and sunset views on nearly two acres. The pristine 4,100 sq. ft. interior offers four bedrooms and three full bathrooms. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID 58JHRD MOTT & CHACE SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY +1 401 789 8899

$1,895,000

COLTS NECK NEW JERSEY

Desirable Colts Gait West Elegance and charm throughout. Grand two-story foyer with exquisite stairway. Set on over one and a quarter private acres. Five bedrooms, three and one half bathrooms. Close to New York City transportation. SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM, PROPERTY ID G44YB6 HERITAGE HOUSE SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY HHSIRLISTINGS@SOTHEBYSREALTY.COM

$1,189,000

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SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE NEW YORK

Overlooking Lake Agawam An opportunity to own a significant piece of Southampton’s prestigious estate section with sensational water views, over five acres, minutes to ocean beaches and village. Other lots also available. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 0056890 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY SOUTHAMPTON BROKERAGE DEBORAH SRB +1 516 445 6828 DEBORAH.SRB@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$18,750,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

114 Liberty Street, 10th Floor This authentic, inventive, approximately 5,362 sq. ft. full floor loft in the heart of vibrant Lower Manhattan offers the very highest-end finishes and the potential for live/work flexibility. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 0139232 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN BROKERAGE JEREMY V. STEIN +1 212 431 2427 JEREMY.STEIN@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$7,995,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

Contemporary Panache in Flatiron Experience palatial living in this meticulously renovated full-floor loft. The design skillfully incorporates its circa 1920 cast iron columns into a carefully crafted three-bedroom floor plan. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 0139257 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN BROKERAGE MARA FLASH BLUM +1 212 431 2447 MARAFLASH.BLUM@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$5,000,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

181 East 65th Street, Apartment 15B Designed in the signature prewar style, Residence 15B is generously sized with three spacious bedrooms and three full baths. Light-flooded living and entertaining space showcases views of the city and Central Park. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 00111308 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY EAST SIDE MANHATTAN BROKERAGE LESLIE S. MODELL +1 212 606 7668 LESLIES.MODELL@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$4,850,000

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10 Sullivan Street, Apartment 15A Featuring three bedrooms, three and one half baths, approximately 2,950 interior sq. ft. and 404 sq. ft. of private outdoor space and breathtaking views, this full-floor home defines luxury New York City living. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 00111319 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY EAST SIDE MANHATTAN BROKERAGE CHRIS POORE, EYAL DAGAN +1 212 606 7676, +1 212 606 7712 CHRIS.POORE@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$9,995,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

465 Park Avenue, Apartment 14A This unique and expertly crafted, newly combined white glove seven room duplex facing Park Avenue artfully encompasses three bedrooms, three bathrooms, powder room, family room and dining room. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 00111311 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY EAST SIDE MANHATTAN BROKERAGE EVA J. MOHR +1 212 606 7736 EVA.MOHR@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$7,800,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

1235 Park Avenue, Apartment 12AB High-floor apartment consisting of four bedrooms, a library, a separate office and four and one half bathrooms in excellent condition. Located on Park Avenue with peak views of Central Park. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 00111262 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY EAST SIDE MANHATTAN BROKERAGE ANNE ARANSAENZ +1 212 606 7645 ANNE.ARANSAENZ@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$7,700,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

The Woolworth Tower Residences The top 30 floors of The Woolworth Building have been transformed by famed French architect Thierry W. Despont into a limited collection of 33 luxury condo residences atop a celebrated New York City landmark. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 00111259 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY EAST SIDE MANHATTAN BROKERAGE STAN PONTE, JOSHUA JUDGE +1 212 606 4109, +1 212 431 2476

$7,250,000

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The Pinnacle of Luxury Living at 40 East 72nd Street This twelve room penthouse triplex new development offers 6,060 sq. ft. of interior space and 1,210 sq. ft. of exterior terraces. A collaboration by world renowned designer Jacques Grange and architect Barry Rice. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 00110283 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY EAST SIDE MANHATTAN BROKERAGE NIKKI FIELD, PATRICIA WHEATLEY, NICOLE KOTOVOS +1 212 606 7669, +1 212 606 7613, +1 212 606 7629

$29,000,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

765 Park Avenue, Apartment 11B This beautiful fourteen into eleven room residence affords wide open views over Park Avenue and East 72nd Street. The grand rooms are perfectly suited to major entertaining and grand living. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 00111277 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY EAST SIDE MANHATTAN BROKERAGE SERENA BOARDMAN +1 212 606 7611 SERENA.BOARDMAN@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$24,000,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

Contemporary and Chic West Side Brownstone This absolutely stunning, super sunny, completely gut-renovated 20 ft. wide brownstone with stoop and bay window in front and rear glass facade, is steps from Central Park on West 76th Street. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 00111240 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY EAST SIDE MANHATTAN BROKERAGE CATHY TAUB + 1 212 606 7772 CATHY.TAUB@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$17,950,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

1 East 66th Street, Apartment 17A/B Enjoy breathtaking views of Central Park and the city skyline from the terraces of this high-floor corner apartment perched over Fifth Avenue. Premier full-service building. SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM, WEB ID 00111244 SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY EAST SIDE MANHATTAN BROKERAGE MEREDYTH HULL SMITH +1 212 606 7683 MEREDYTH.SMITH@SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM

$12,950,000

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Swiss watch manufacturer Patek Philippe left nothing to chance: the

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firm planned its premier timepiece well in advance of 1989, the year of its 150th anniversary. With just four examples made, the Calibre 89 became the world’s most complex mechanical watch for more than a quarter century, and it remains unequalled in haute horlogerie. Incorporating an enormous 33 complications with 24 hands among 1,728 components, this open-faced astronomical and astrological pocket watch

PATEK PHILIPPE The Calibre 89 $6,500,000–10,000,000 Important Watches Geneva Exhibition: 11–13 May Auction: 14 May Enquiries: +41 22 908 4812

is elegant despite its imposing size and weight. Be sure not to miss the opportunity to secure this rarity for your own pocket.

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1. RETROGRADE DISPLAY In a break from traditional circular indications, an arc from ten o’clock to two o’clock displays the date based on a cycle of 400 years, which will require no adjustment until the 28th century.

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2. LEAP YEAR CYCLE To the right of the aperture for the current year is a smaller one for the year’s place in the leap cycle. The number four marks a leap year, a function that separates watches with a perpetual calendar from those with an annual calendar.

3. EASTER PARADE As the first watch in history to indicate the movable feast of Easter, the Calibre 89 follows an arc from 22 March to 25 April on the sidereal dial. A special cam dictating forthcoming Easters must be replaced every 30 years.

4. CELESTIAL CHART The watch shows the Milky Way and 2,800 Northern Hemisphere stars as seen from Geneva. They appear on a sapphire crystal disc revolving in an aperture within the sidereal dial that is true to real time.

5. THE SUN HAND The astronomical sun hand makes one annual rotation around the sidereal dial. This hand indicates the equinox, solstice, date, corresponding zodiac sign and season every year, without fail or mistake.

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