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Criss Canning has painted from the gardens and landscapes around her 1860s farmhouse near Ballarat for over five decades. Blue, 1998, is coming to auction on Invaluable on October 26: ow.ly/5rin5100i1m
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View into Infinity is the fullest expression of Ferdinand Hodler’s theory of Parallelism. This compositional study is a work in progress for finished paintings that are in the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Kunsthaus Zürich. Coming to auction: ow.ly/l2NB51003ZK
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“Gruau created a new ideal of feminine beauty, one that looked to the past and was at the same time inescapably modern,” wrote David Downton of René Gruau. This ink and gouache drawing on torn card is coming to auction on Invaluable on Oct 23. Bid at: ow.ly/9fzk5100hG5
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Unveiling some of last week's top-performing lots. Swipe to explore the pieces that surprised the market. #AuctionResults #FineArtMarket #CollectorInsights #HammerPrice #ArtInvestment #LotLegends #Invaluable
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In 1890, Mary Cassatt attended a major exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints opened in Paris and spent the following winter teaching herself to emulate Japanese printmakers. This print, Maternal Caress was made that winter. Place your bids at: ow.ly/qm8h50ZXX7B
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“Suitcase of memories” - the name of this auction - is a line is from the Cyndi Lauper 1984 song, Time After Time. 40 years of fashion, stage costumes and accessories from Lauper's estate are coming to auction on Invaluable in Bonhams' 22 October sale: ow.ly/CMXS50ZXWcX
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Mary Fedden was the first female tutor at the Painting School at the Royal College of Art. Among her students were David Hockney and Patrick Caulfield. Her painting, Iceland Poppies in a Vase, is coming to auction on October 21. Place your bids at: ow.ly/apW250ZXVVg
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Staffordshire solid agate: the marbling runs through the entire body of the clay, not just the surface. These two pieces from the 1740s are coming to auction on Invaluable in Bonhams' 20 October sale. Place your bids at: ow.ly/XU1b50ZXISt
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Auction surprises from last week await. Swipe to find a few of the lots surpassed their estimates. #AuctionResults #FineArtMarket #CollectorInsights #HammerPrice #ArtInvestment #LotLegends #Invaluable
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First called the Viking Chair - for its longship curves. Renamed the Harp Chair for its woven rope strings. Designed by Jørgen Høvelskov in 1963, at the peak of the golden age of Danish furniture. Coming to auction on 14 October: ow.ly/MKb050ZVVIv
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Raymond Cauchetier taught himself photography while serving with the French Air Force in the early 1950s. He later became the set photographer of the French New Wave. 218 lots from his personal collection are coming to auction on Invaluable on 12 Oct: ow.ly/qqvF50ZVThP
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Carlo Corsi trained as an engineer before abandoning his degree for painting. In 1907 he travelled to the Netherlands to study Vermeer - specifically for the light. The impact is particularly visible in La Vetrata (The Stained Glass Window). Bid at: ow.ly/ImYm50ZVM4W
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Minotaure: the complete run of 13 issues in original print. Cover commissions from Picasso, Duchamp, Miró, Dalí, Matisse, Magritte, Ernst, and Rivera. Contributors inside: Breton, Éluard, Le Corbusier, Tzara, Kandinsky, Giacometti, Man Ray. Bid now! ow.ly/3lSn50ZVLmh
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Swipe for a peek at some of last week's most notable overachievers at auction. #AuctionResults #FineArtMarket #CollectorInsights #HammerPrice #ArtInvestment #LotLegends #Invaluable
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Jun Kaneko moved to LA from Japan, aged 21. He had originally trained as a painter but when he encountered the sculptor Peter Voulkos, he said: "it was impossible not to be interested in ceramics." This Dango - "rounded form" - is coming to auction: ow.ly/QPuh50ZTceY
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Two authorized posthumous silver gelatine prints, produced in 1991, including one of Man Ray's most celebrated photographs, Larmes, are coming to auction on Invaluable in the Kiefer Buch- und Kunstauktionen October 8 sale. Bid at: ow.ly/HgLH50ZTbH9
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Louis Icart was one of the defining visual voices of Art Deco with colour etchings of glamorous, self-possessed women that captured the spirit of 1920s Paris. Moquerie (Mockery) is coming to auction on Invaluable in John Moran Auctioneers' October 6 sale. Bid at:
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Dalí discovered a book from the 1560s, and made 23 lithographs in response, borrowing the book's title and its creatures and making them unmistakably his Dalí-esque in 1973. This lithograph, signed and numbered is coming to auction on October 4: ow.ly/LjN850ZTb6z
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Mamoru Teramoto built his kiln in Kasama in the mid-1970s because the town had no prescriptive style - no centuries of codified rules to follow like other parts of Japanese pottery culture like Bizen, Kutani, or Arita. This vase is coming to sale on 6 Oct: ow.ly/rkP250ZTaEC
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A few of last week’s auction surprises to follow. Swipe to uncover the lots that outshined their estimates. #AuctionResults #FineArtMarket #CollectorInsights #HammerPrice #ArtInvestment #LotLegends #Invaluable
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