Art & Home 2017 issue 1

FEBRUARY — MARCH 2017

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48 Dressing Freud A Savile Row tailor recalls visiting Lucian Freud’s studio to fit the artist’s suits.

By Emma Lawson

50 Bourgeois/Kusama Despite different backgrounds, the artists have more than few things in common.

By Christine Schwartz Hartley

56 LACMA Obscura With custom-built cameras, Vera Lutter is documenting a museum’s transition.

By Hilarie M Sheets

62 Material World A host of museum shows is transforming the way fashion is perceived by the public.

By Simon Brooke

DEPARTMENTS 8 The Scene Autumn’s fabulous parties in New York, London and Miami Beach

13 Access Furniture by Rick Owens, Yves Klein in Buenos Aires, Benelux art beyond TEFAF Maastricht and more

26 Curated Editor Rowan Pelling previews Sotheby’s auction of erotica

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DEPARTMENTS 28 At Home with Art Los Angeles decorator-designer Oliver M Furth is a modernist at heart

34 In the Mix Three of Sotheby’s Asia Week auctions capture a continent’s heritage

36 The Value of Art In a new series, our experts reveal how they determine what an object is worth

38 Extraordinary Properties Creativity balanced with functionality makes for great architecture

42 All That Glitters The brooch may just be the most creative and empowering of jewels

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44 The Reginato Files John Pawson shows his mastery of line at London’s new Design Museum

66 Art & Home Featured Properties Two locations with a sense of history

74 Sotheby’s This Season A calendar of auctions and exhibitions worldwide, plus selected sale highlights

93 Sotheby’s International Realty Property Showcase 108 Anatomy of an Artwork

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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.

Please note that all lots are sold subject to our Conditions of Sale and Terms of Guarantee or Conditions of Business and the Authenticity Guarantee, as applicable, which are printed in the back of the catalogue for the respective sale. All lots are sold “AS IS,” in the condition they are in at the time of the auction, in accordance of the Conditions of Sale or the Conditions of Business, as applicable. The respective catalogues can be found at www.sothebys.com. Sotheby’s, Inc. License No. 1216058. © Sotheby’s, Inc. 2017. Information here within is correct at the time of printing.

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Co-sponsored by Sotheby’s, the 25th annual Take Home a Nude benefit auction raised over $1.1 million for the New York Academy of Art, far surpassing previous years. Dorothy Lichtenstein and Sotheby’s Eric Shiner were the co-chairs of the event, which honoured art collector Jane Holzer.

In advance of the Bowie/Collector sales, guests were invited to an exclusive event at Sotheby’s London. Alongside the spectacular light-up dance floor and David Bowie-themed cocktails were opportunities to view highlights from the auctions.

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Sotheby’s at Art Basel Miami Beach

Miami top Guests in the Sotheby’s Lounge at the Soho Beach House penthouse centre Jeffrey Deitch and Hyon Gyon bottom Job Piston and Hong Gyu Shin

Sotheby’s at Art Basel Miami Beach Miami top Angela Goding bottom Alyssa Nitchun and Duke Riley

Sotheby’s at Art Basel Miami Beach

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Miami top Kim Heirston and Richard Evans bottom Edward Tyler Nahem and RoseLee Goldberg

Sotheby’s at Art Basel Miami Beach Miami top Irina Sivakova and Anna Vikentiev bottom Liz Munsell and Katie Hollander

SOTHEBY’S AT ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 28 November–2 December Miami Sotheby’s returned to Art Basel Miami Beach, where events included an al fresco lunch at the Mandolin Aegean Bistro; a reception in the garden at The Standard Hotel, co-hosted by Creative Time; and a three-evening series at the Soho Beach House penthouse, one of which was hosted by Performa’s RoseLee Goldberg and Roya Sachs.

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THE SCENE November in New York New York top Marcio Fainziliber, Tiqui Atencio and Mara Fainziliber bottom Taylor Olson and Denis Velkovich

November in New York

New York top Amy Butte and Andrea Glimcher bottom Daniel Humm and Natasha McIrvin

November in New York

New York top Anthony d’Offay and Ann Ames bottom Adam Weinberg and Lorraine Weinberg

November in New York

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New York top The Honourable Hilary Weston bottom JeanMarc Houmard

NOVEMBER IN NEW YORK 6–12 November Sotheby’s New York A series of events accompanied Sotheby’s sale previews, including a reception celebrating the Steven and Ann Ames Collection with Vietnamese cuisine by downtown institution Indochine; the launch of megacollector Tiqui Atencio’s first book; a private viewing and dinner celebrating the Musée d’Orsay’s 30th anniversary; and a meal with Michelin star-rated chef Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park.

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A NIGHT OF ROCK AND ROLL WITH JOSE CUERVO 8 December Sotheby’s New York Rock and roll was in the air for a rollicking preview of music and pop culture memorabilia. After a lively panel discussion on culture and collecting, guests enjoyed a set by tribute band Lez Zeppelin and the launch of a Jose Cuervo tequila commemorative bottle, the 250 Aniversario Rolling Stones™ Special Edition.

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REVOLUTIONARY ART

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A Rick Owens-designed daybed and two chairs with moose antlers in a 2012 exhibition at the Chesa Planta museum in Switzerland.

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A NEW STONE AGE At once brutal and elegant, sober and luxurious, the furniture created by fashion designer Rick Owens is a natural extension of his monochrome, anarchistpunk clothing aesthetic. From the pods at either end of his 2007 Double Bubble sofa to the massively

geometric 2012 Tomb Chair, sprouting a moose antler, each piece seems to channel some ancient, supremely powerful civilisation. In 200 illustrated pages, Rick Owens: Furniture (Rizzoli, $65) illuminates new works – realised with his wife and muse Michèle

Lamy – that form the core of an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, through 2 April. They speak volumes about the couple’s passions: formal rigour and noble materials, high or low. —CHRISTINE SCHWARTZ HARTLEY

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UNDER THE INFLUENCE

(From top) Henri Matisse’s The Yellow Dress, 1929–31, and Richard Diebenkorn’s Seated Figure with Hat, 1967.

TAKING WING

INTO THE BLUE Although he was only 34 years old when he died in 1962, Yves Klein had established himself as a key member of the Parisian avant-garde and an influential precursor of Pop, performance art and more. The first major Klein retrospective in Argentina explores the artist’s prodigious creativity.

Works range from 1950s monochromatic paintings and paint-soaked sponge sculptures to notorious performance pieces using naked female models as paintbrushes.

For all of Klein’s love of provocative showmanship, he was most preoccupied with colour, and his famous canvases bear his own patented International Klein Blue pigment.

Already obsessed with the hue by age nineteen, he is said to have signed the sky with his forefinger and proclaimed it “my first artwork.” Yves Klein Retrospective, Fundacíon Proa, Buenos Aires, March–June. —IJ

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Victory of Samothrace (S9), 1962, by Yves Klein.

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In his long career, the post-war painter Richard Diebenkorn took us from abstraction to figuration and back again. His works fused landscape and architecture, interiors and exteriors, in colours milky or saturated, all bathed in Southern California light.

Diebenkorn’s guiding artistic star was Henri Matisse. The Baltimore Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have paired works by both artists to illuminate how Matisse informed Diebenkorn’s palette, composition and technique.

The geometric shapes and pastel tones of his celebrated Ocean Park series echo Matisse’s The Piano Lesson and his messily vibrant View of Notre Dame, while Diebenkorn’s Seated Figure with Hat draws on the ruddy citrus hues of his idol’s The Yellow Dress.

Yet Diebenkorn was no mere disciple: he developed a big, bright and bold style all his own.

Be sure to bring your shades.

Matisse/Diebenkorn, Baltimore Museum of Art, through 29 January; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 11 March–29 May. —IAN JOHNS

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CASTING A SPELL

RARE BIRD By incorporating his private menagerie of animals both familiar and fantastic in superbly proportioned bronze lamps, chairs and consoles, Diego Giacometti cast a timeless spell. Now Sotheby’s is presenting the first Paris exhibition of the artist’s work in two decades, featuring more than 60 pieces lent by private collectors. A dedicated auction will follow in late spring, apt timing for this lover of nature. The Imaginary World of Diego Giacometti, Galerie Charpentier, Sotheby’s Paris, 25–29, 31 January. —CSH

Alexander Deineka’s Textile Workers, 1927.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

SIGN OF THE TOMES

Ulises Carrión, Lilia Prado. Superstar, 1984, poster for film festival.

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A retrospective of Mexican conceptual artist Ulises Carrión, who died at age 49 in 1989, demonstrates what a lasting – if unheralded – impact his short career as an artist, curator, editor, theorist and writer had. Known for his involvement in the Mail Art movement, he founded the celebrated shop Other Books and So in Amsterdam in the 1970s, championing the idea of books made or conceived by artists. Featuring some 350 pieces, including books, magazines, videos, films and performances, the exhibition at the Museo Jumex focuses on how language was used in Carrión’s subversive, playful and gently anarchistic work: one notable performance piece involved him spreading false rumours about himself and then tracking their progress. With artists expressing their views in print-driven works and artists’ books now an established part of contemporary art, Carrión’s influence should not be underestimated. Ulises Carrión: Dear Reader. Don’t Read, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, 9 February–7 May. —BB

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Diego Giacometti, Table aux grenouilles et aux oiseaux, patinated bronze, circa 1975.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the Royal Academy of Arts in London aims to capture the artistic energy and innovation of its aftermath, until Stalin suppressed this explosive period of creative freedom. Inspired by a landmark exhibition held in Leningrad in 1932, the RA’s show encompasses such experimental works as Wassily Kandinsky’s dynamic, abstracted landscape Blue Crest, 1917; Marc Chagall’s beloved Promenade, 1917–18; pioneering Suprematist compositions

by Kazimir Malevich; Social Realist paintings by Isaak Brodsky; films

by Sergei Eisenstein and propaganda posters by unnamed artists. A century later, against the backdrop of revived utopian ideals and the harsh reality of tumultuous times, these works are unlikely to have lost their revolutionary fervour. Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 11 February–17 April. —BELINDA BAKER

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and Rembrandts at the Rijksmuseum are always a draw, but don’t miss the museum’s fascinating exhibition entitled

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examining the complicated relationship between the two nations (17 February–21 May). The Stedelijk Museum will be featuring the work of Dutch street photographer Ed van der Elsken (4 February–21 May), who is known for his gritty, sexy black-and-white photos of bohemian life in 1950s Paris.

For accommodations, consider staying at the Conservatorium, close to the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk.

Designer Piero Lissoni has incorporated original features from this 19th-century former bank building into an expansive contemporary space. Its glass-enclosed lobbylounge is perfect for a coffee break, a drink or a meal at its airy brasserie.

About 80 kilometres from Amsterdam, Rotterdam is one of Europe’s most dynamic and design-conscious cities. It is known for landmarks such as Ben van Berkel’s Erasmus Bridge and Piet Blom’s Cube houses, as well as cultural hot spots ranging from the Rem Koolhaas-designed Kunsthal museum to the Nederlands Fotomuseum.

The five-star Art Deco Bilderberg Parkhotel lies near Museumpark, a cluster of institutions that includes the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, which houses an extensive collection ranging from Brueghel to Warhol.

For an immersive experience, head over to the Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, where Canadian mixedmedia artist Judy Radul has her largest solo show yet (10 February–30 April). Using multi-camera installations, Radul will be guiding visitors through an exploration of the poetic and social significance of doors, windows, entrances

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Good Hope: The Netherlands and South Africa from 1600,

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(Counterclockwise from below) Ed van der Elsken’s Vali Myers, Paris, 1954, at the Stedelijk; the Bilderberg Parkhotel in Rotterdam; and two works from Good Hope, at the Rijksmuseum: an 18th-century illustration by Robert Jacob Gordon, made during an expedition to Africa, and a portrait from Pieter Hugo’s 2016 series 1994, depicting children born after the year South African apartheid was abolished.

Each year, wealthy collectors, museum bosses and the world’s top dealers converge on the Netherlands for The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht. This year’s event, running from 10 to 19 March, will offer more than 30,000 works from classical antiquity to the 21st century, and while organisers have launched autumn and spring satellites in New York, the Maastricht edition remains the flagship of this prestigious fair, drawing 275 dealers.

Many of the fair’s visitors from abroad fly in and out of Amsterdam (about a two-and-a-half-hour trip by car or train to Maastricht), and many reserve a day on either end of the trip to explore the Dutch capital. The Vermeers

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From Rotterdam, it’s about a two-hour drive to Maastrich on the Belgian border, 145 kilometres away. From here, it is tempting to visit Brussels or Bruges. Yet Ghent, about 180 kilometres from Maastricht, combines the cosmopolitan vibe of Brussels with the medieval charm of Bruges, while also buzzing with a contemporary creative scene.

Ghent’s greatest artistic treasure is probably Jan van Eyck’s recently restored altarpiece, The Adoration of The Mystic Lamb, in the Gothic St Bavo Cathedral. For Flemish masters old and new, visit the Museum voor Schone Kunsten, located in the wooded Citadelpark. There you will also find the always stimulating Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst. Its retrospective of the LA-based James Welling (28 January– 16 April) is an opportunity for European audiences to discover an artist whose experimental photographic works may be best known in the US. An intimate home base can be secured at the four-star Hotel Harmony, centrally located in Patershol, Ghent’s oldest district.

The hotel’s 19th-century merchant-house facade belies the contemporary design within. Similarly, the exterior of Parkhuis, an old iron-frame warehouse, hides a friendly brasserie, given a theatrical flourish of fancy ironwork by designer Antoine Pinto.

Its superb menu has local dishes with modern twists.

You may find some dazzling treasures in Maastricht, but you might also discover real gems not so far way. —IJ

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MUST-SEE EXHIBITIONS AT MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD

EUROPE

8 February–9 April

CHICAGO Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 11 February–30 April MERCE CUNNINGHAM: COMMON TIME

RAYMOND PETTIBON: A PEN OF ALL WORK

AMSTERDAM

New York Botanical Garden

3 March–11 June

18 February–9 April

PRINTS IN PARIS 1900

THE ORCHID SHOW: THAILAND

Neue Galerie

CLEVELAND

16 February–29 May

The Cleveland Museum of Art

ALEXEI JAWLENSKY

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LOS ANGELES Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Whitney Museum of American Art 17 March–11 June WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2017

NEWARK Newark Museum

26 February–9 July

8 March–26 February 2018

THE INNER EYE: VISION AND TRANSCENDENCE IN AFRICAN ARTS

MUSICAL ARTS OF ASIA

NEW YORK El Museo del Barrio 11 January–30 April BEATRIZ SANTIAGO MUÑOZ: A UNIVERSE OF FRAGILE MIRRORS

TORONTO Aga Khan Museum

COLOGNE Museum Ludwig 9 February–1 May GERHARD RICHTER: NEW PAINTINGS

LONDON British Museum 9 March–18 June THE AMERICAN DREAM: POP TO THE PRESENT

The National Gallery 15 March–25 June MICHELANGELO | SEBASTIANO: A MEETING OF MINDS

4 February–4 June

The Royal Academy of the Arts

REBEL, JESTER, MYSTIC, POET: CONTEMPORARY PERSIANS

11 February–17 April

WASHINGTON, DC The Phillips Collection

Frick Collection

4 February–30 April

23 February–14 May

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC ILLUSTRATES THE BELLE ÉPOQUE

TURNER’S MODERN AND ANCIENT PORTS: PASSAGES THROUGH TIME

Van Gogh Museum

REVOLUTION: RUSSIAN ART 1917–1932

Tate Britain 9 February–29 May DAVID HOCKNEY

MARIGNY Fondation Pierre Gianadda

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: Merce Cunningham photographed

by Cameron Wittig in 2008.

3 February–11 June HODLER, MONET, MUNCH

ASIA

Liang Yi Museum

Grand Palais

TOKYO

15 March–24 July

Mori Art Museum

REUNION: A COLLECTOR’S JOURNEY

JARDINS

4 February–11 June 2017

Musée du Louvre

N. S. HARSHA: CHARMING JOURNEY

PARIS

22 February–22 May VERMEER AND THE MASTERS OF GENRE PAINTING

VENICE Palazzo Ducale 9 February–1 May HIERONYMUS BOSCH AND VENICE

Whitney Museum of American Art: John Divola’s Abandoned Painting B, 2007.

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Nezu Museum 4 March–31 March 2017 THE FRAGRANT SUBLIME: KORYŎ BUDDHIST PAINTINGS

HONG KONG Asia Society Hong Kong 15 March–9 July 2017 BREATHING SPACE: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM HONG KONG

March 2017

SHANGHAI Yuz Museum March 2017–August 2017 KAWS: WHERE THE END STARTS HONG KONG

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TEFAF New York 4–8 May VIP DAY 3 MAY Art Basel Hong Kong: Julio Le Parc’s Cloison à lames réfléchissantes, 1966–2005 from Galeria Nara Roesler in 2016.

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Dallas Art Fair

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HONG KONG Art Basel Hong Kong

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GEORGE GROSZ Erotic Scene £7,000–10,000

“One of the great social documenters of the 20th century, Grosz depicted prostitutes, brothels and scenes of untrammelled sexuality, helping form our vision of the underbelly of the Weimar Republic.”

OBJECTS OF DESIRE From her early days editing England’s Erotic Review to her advice columns for GQ and The Telegraph, journalist and broadcaster Rowan Pelling has built a career talking about sex. Here she guides us through Sotheby’s upcoming auction devoted to the sensual realm.

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The Courtesan Bed, second half of the 19th century £500,000–800,000

“This ravishing Second Empire French bed seems expressly fashioned for its owner to enact baroque fantasies. It’s crafted from Cuban mahogany, chased around by wild swans, topped by a naked nymph and believed to have been commissioned for the celebrated courtesan La Païva for her mansion on the Champs-Élysées.”

JACQUES LOYSEL La Grande Névrose, circa 1896 £120,000–180,000

PABLO PICASSO Femme Erotique, 1971 £120,000–180,000

“This spare, intense sketch matches Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du monde in its profoundly carnal vision of womanhood. It is hard to look at and even harder to look away from.”

“La Grande Névrose transcends the cold, still quality of marble. The nude is almost unbearably alive and intimate as she arches her back and writhes in ecstasy. The sculpture is acclaimed as Loysel’s finest work and he guarded it jealously, keeping it with him in his studio throughout his lifetime.”

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GEORGY GURIANOV After the Battle £8,000–12,000

“Gurianov was a drummer in the seminal Russian rock band Kino, so there’s a playful anarchy to his artworks. He gives a puckish nod to the classicism of ancient Greek sculpture, but the gaze here is defiantly homoerotic: an electrifying celebration of the male physique.”

Erotic: Passion & Desire will be exhibited in London from 10–15 February. Auction: 16 February.

Enquiries: +44 (0)20 7293 5704.

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AT HOME WITH ART

A MODERN EDUCATION He values history and was schooled in tradition, but Los Angeles designer-decorator Oliver M Furth has the heart of a true California modernist, Meredith Mendelsohn reports.

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How would you describe your personal style?

I was trained in traditional decorating. I know how to create a room with fancy curtains, how to use trim and upholstery in the proper way. But at heart I’m a modernist. I value materiality over finish. I’m looking at the lines of a piece of furniture, whether it’s antique or new. I have a client who is a scholarly collector of 18th-century English furniture, but she also buys avant-garde contemporary art. I did strong colours with the beautiful antiques – I call it Anglo-Angeleno. At the end of the day, I want to push the design dialogue.

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liver M Furth has rarely met a beautiful antique he did not covet, whether an elegant 18th-century Georgian chair or a handsome Arts and Crafts sideboard.

A student of architecture and art history who worked as an auction house decorative arts specialist before opening his eponymous firm in Los Angeles, Furth has strong local ties: he grew up here, serves as chair emeritus of the Decorative Arts and Design Council at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and was a founding member of the nonprofit alternative art space LA><ART. He regularly incorporates the work of LA designers and artists into his interiors, recently collaborating with Tanya Aguiñiga on a small collection of furniture. He spoke with Meredith Mendelsohn about his approach to mixing traditionalism and modernism, which has earned him multiple accolades and a steadily growing roster of clients.

In this Beverly Hills residence Furth used pieces exclusively by living designers and artists, including Eric Schmitt, Clare Graham, Wendell Castle and Stefan Bishop.

The part that really interests me is the intersection of art and design. I work with a lot of artists, and LA has so much talent right now. I recently collaborated with Tanya Aguiñiga, who is a weaver and felter. I first commissioned her to do a chair for LACMA’s permanent collection through a contemporary initiative I helped develop there. She took a vintage Eames chair and used a 100-year-old felting technique to rematerialise it.

You are closely associated with Los Angeles.

Does the city really have a design ethos that’s different from other places?

We’re more casual. People keep their doors open in a different kind of way. Our light is very warm, so cool tones work really beautifully. There has always been a horizontality to LA living: there is space and you want it to be accessible.

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Which aspect of your work excites you most?

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I always say that a room needs to be appropriate. All those English country houses on Park Avenue feel very dated. Chintz came into fashion because people were in the country. There was mud and dogs, and chintz camouflaged that. In a doorman building in Manhattan, you can go a little slicker.

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Are there any decorating rules you live by?

(This page) A downtown LA dining room with a lighting sculpture

by Kwangho Lee. (Opposite) Oliver Furth; the sitting room of a midcentury house in the Hollywood Hills with a Milo Baughman sofa and Hans Wegner armchairs.

Los Angeles has many architect-designed midcentury homes. Have you worked on any of them?

I’m doing an amazing house in Pasadena, built in 1961. It’s ranch style, but it goes into a big, soaring, peaked roof in a corner – like the prow of a boat – with unbelievable views on two sides.

How far do you go in terms of historic preservation in such cases?

There was a lot of dialogue about restoration here. Do we bring it all the way back or not? It’s important to know the rules to make informed decisions about when to break them. We are going to reorganise the floor plan in the bedrooms. Our notion of a master bath is not what it was in 1961.

What kind of antiques would you put in a midcentury house?

A couple of pieces of Shaker furniture would feel very fresh, I think. They are spare and minimal, with a patina you just could not invent. I have a particular fondness for Arts and Crafts furniture, which is cringe-worthy for some people, but it’s very architectural. It is a celebration of craft and materiality.

Meredith Mendelsohn is a Brooklyn-based writer covering art and design.

(From top) A 19th-century Japanese screen is the centrepiece of a bedroom; the glamorous sitting room of a Wilshire Boulevard penthouse with Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture.

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What is your decorating strategy?

At the beginning of a project, I try not to envision it too completely. You are decorating over the course of a year or two – you’re not making all the choices in one meeting.

I try to leave a few holes because there might be something new and exciting that gets invented or designed, or an auction purchase that has us say, “Wow! That is not what we would have put at first, but it’s going to be great.” It’s like cooking, when adding a spice changes the whole complexity of the dish – just that one ingredient.

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Can you tell us about a recent project?

I recently finished a penthouse in a 1960s building in the middle of the city. My client has a spectacular collection of blue-chip 20th-century art. She’s a traditionalist, and she would have wanted Versailles, which would not have been appropriate. So I captured the essence of that. We ebonised the parquet floors, bought 18th-century furniture, and mixed it with 1970s lighting and French 1940s elements. The result is very glam: all the doors are clad in hand-painted leather, the bronze tables are by Stefan Bishop, the sofa from DupréLafon, and there are verre églomisé mirrors. It’s fancy, with a lot of details, but much cleaner than when we started.

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IN THE MIX 1 FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA Untitled (set of three), 1965, 1963, 1965 $2,500–3,500 2 Buddha calling on the earth to witness, Magadha, India, Pala period, 9th/10th century $40,000–60,000 3 B. PRABHA Untitled (Fisherwoman), 1960 $18,000–22,000 A Lyrical Line: Paintings and Drawings by Francis Newton Souza will be exhibited in New York from 7–18 March.

Online auction: 3–20 March.

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Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art will be exhibited in New York from 7–13 March.

Auction: 14 March.

Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art Including Property from the Cleveland Museum of Art will be exhibited in New York from 9–14 March.

Auction: 15 March.

Enquiries: +1 212 606 7304.

In three auctions of Indian, Himalayan and South Asian art this season, Sotheby’s surveys two millennia of the region’s wondrous artistic creativity.

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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.

Episode 1

AUTHENTICITY How can you tell if a Chinese work of art is authentic?

Nicolas Chow, department chairman at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, explains.

Sotheby’s Hong Kong Chinese Works of Art chairman Nicolas Chow.

In The Value of Art, a new online series GETTING UP CLOSE presented by Sotheby’s Financial Services, our “The second stage is the moment when you specialists examine the criteria they consider really assess each and every characteristic very critical in estimating what objects are worth. closely: for instance, the weight, because a clay Authoritative and engaging, each episode aims body from the early 15th century has a different to help collectors unlock the value of their art. density than one from the 18th century. If a To bring further insight into each topic, piece is a little bit heavier than what you expect, Sotheby’s magazine is extending the programme alarm bells go off. Touch is very important with into print. We begin with Nicolas Chow, certain objects, such as Chenghua-period glazed chairman of Chinese Works of Art at Sotheby’s pieces. These are glazes that are so much silkier Hong Kong, discussing authenticity. “In my field, than any other that just a touch will tell you anything that’s worth something, even if it’s just immediately.” $1,000, is worth being faked,” Chow explains.

DO YOUR HOMEWORK “We cannot lower our guard, no matter what.”

“The third stage is academic research. You For Chow and his colleagues, four major steps pull the books out, look at your piece, compare are necessary to establish authenticity. it against other examples or similar pieces FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT all around the world and really compare “Chinese connoisseurs have a saying: Kāi mén very, very closely. jiàn shān – ‘You open the door and you see PEER REVIEW the mountain right there in front of you.’ That’s “The fourth stage is really validating this opinion an expression that is used to talk about that against the opinion of my colleagues all around visceral feeling you get the first time you’re the world and possibly academic consultants confronted with something. An authentic object from outside, from the museum world. In all, has a naturalness, a degree of familiarity. And I would say judging the authenticity is a sixth that is precisely what a forgery will be missing. sense. Not something esoteric, but rather based A potter making a vase in the 15th century on a lot of experience and having seen hundreds would have practised his craft every day for and even thousands of objects.” years. A forger is just looking at a thing and copying it. He may have done ten, but he has not made thousands. There’s something definitely contrived about the forgery. An object that is 400 years old does not have the same surface as an object that was made yesterday.”

The Value of Art, an original video series presented

by Sotheby’s Financial Services, is available online at sothebys.com/valueofart.

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EXTRAORDINARY PROPERTIES

FORM + FUNCTION The greatest architecture counterbalances exuberant innovation with attention to function, Iyna Bort Caruso reports.

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This magnificent villa was built in 2012 and is notable for its modern architectural style.

Its stark lines complement the sculptured yet peaceful garden that stretches around it. €3,500,000 Property ID: 8MSQ97 | sothebysrealty.com Sotheby’s International Realty – Berlin Sotheby’s International Realty +49 30 88 71 71 800

In certain circles, innovative architecture is a boundary-pushing test of one-upmanship, with architects juxtaposing and exaggerating existing styles and silhouettes while playfully embracing the element of surprise. But to be successful, design has to do more than be wildly creative: it has to be functional. Dan Brunn, an LA-based architect whose projects have featured zigzagging balconies and pivoting walls, believes that it is the architect’s job to create designs that enhance the lives of the homeowners. Harmoniously uniting shapes, capturing volume and light, framing views, and orchestrating floor plans so that “form comes alive” are the attributes of great architecture, Brunn says.

Such structures are common in big cities, but they can also be found in areas like Scottsdale, Arizona, where some luxury homebuyers are deviating from traditional Tuscan- and Southweststyle homes, opting instead for contemporary statement properties. According to Deems Dickinson, president and designated broker of Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty in Scottsdale, these new homes’ striking lines “contrast with our Sonoran Desert, yet balance with their natural setting in terms of aesthetics.” A custom home located on the 17th fairway of the prestigious Mirabel Golf Club community, for instance, is a noteworthy example of innovative contemporary architecture and stands out in its desert surroundings. While remarkably creative, its design is also extremely functional: its indoor atrium with bamboo garden serves as a restorative patch of controlled nature amid the desert wilderness; its floating staircase heightens its spaciousness; and the floor-to-ceiling windows and full-length skylights flood the home with light and warmth.

Certainly, architecture that challenges the norm has the power to turn heads, but innovative design fuelled by functionality transforms lives.

New York-based writer Iyna Bort Caruso has contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday and others.

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(Above) Push open a glass door, and you will enter a remarkable 8,600-square-foot modern mountain retreat. Contemporary finishes and open spaces create an environment that is as clean and airy as its sweeping exterior views. $6,700,000 Property ID: J7YXFM | sothebysrealty.com Summit Sotheby’s International Realty Scott Maizlish +1 435 901 4309 Shane Herbert +1 435 714 9225

ORANGE BEACH ALABAMA

(Right) In this extraordinary contemporary waterfront home on beautiful Bay St. John, innovative craftsmanship features prominently and is especially evident in the awe-inspiring, custom spiral glass staircase from Italy. $3,275,000 Property ID: L45JCW | sothebysrealty.com Kaiser Sotheby’s International Realty Donna Burns +1 251 243 1591

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AUSTIN TEXAS

(Right) Perched atop a scenic hill is a triumph of form and function, a modern masterpiece that is not just visually stunning but also environmentally responsible. Seamlessly integrated into the landscape, this residence is positioned to command panoramic views from each and every living space. $5,995,000 Property ID: 25EEDW | sothebysrealty.com Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty Gary Dolch +1 512 656 5627 Michelle Dolch +1 512 663 3554

SCOTTSDALE ARIZONA

(Below) This custom-built desert oasis was recently completed, incorporating only the finest modern materials. This home’s combination of sleek finishes and breathtaking views creates a striking atmosphere in which Zen meets luxury. $4,490,000 Property ID: ZT9FC7 | sothebysrealty.com Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty Michelle Wiegman +1 602 349 9765

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ALL THAT GLITTERS

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PERSONAL ATTACHMENT Pinned on the lapel, at the waist, on a hat, or even nestled in the hair, the brooch is the most versatile and empowering of jewels.

(Opposite, top right) The Diamond Mercury Brooch from Sotheby’s Diamonds features five pearshaped diamonds weighing a total of 5.29 carats with pavé-set diamond detail.

(Opposite) A dazzling variety of brooches will be on offer at Sotheby’s New York Fine Jewels auction on 1 February.

Supremely eloquent, the brooch can often be the most empowering of all jewellery gestures. For designers, its open form and size – absent the necessity to fit a particular body part – means free creative rein. For wearers, it presents a wonderful opportunity to make a statement, tell a story or simply meet a new friend.

Always a sophisticated touch, a brooch conveys both inner and outward strength – just think of famous brooch wearers whose names immediately come to mind. HM Queen Elizabeth II is one formidable example, her diamond-bow brooch long a favourite among the storied family jewels. And as she recounted in Read My Pins: Stories from A Diplomat’s Jewel Box (Melcher Media, 2009), former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright used brooches as weapons in her diplomatic arsenal to send messages both warm and witty, along with warning signals. For her part, socialite and fashion icon Millicent Rogers telegraphed her magnetic eclecticism and style-making influence through oversize brooches that ranged from a stunning Boivin starfish to an antique diamond-studded order of the nobility. While editor Diana Vreeland asserted her power with rows of Venetian blackamoors, the Duchess of Windsor’s panther brooch – Cartier’s first threedimensional panther in gold and black enamel poised on a massive cabochon emerald – spoke volumes about her stealthy ability to upend British royal lineage.

In recent years, a new fashion generation has rediscovered this particular jewel’s versatility.

Brooches have appeared on the runway in abundance, especially at Prada. It was, in fact, Miuccia Prada’s clusters of antique enamelled flower brooches that heralded a return to adornment after the minimalism of 1990s fashion. Now, the latest high jewellery collections from Chanel and Chaumet also feature dramatic brooches in fresh interpretations of nature, as if their creators were eager to pin flowers to women’s lapels like corsages. The incomparable JAR in Paris has explored the poetry of the perfect flower brooch most memorably in its exquisite rose petal pins, which are made to be worn several at a time, tumbling over a shoulder or across a bodice. In the same spirit, brooches today are being worn in multiples and in unexpected places – in the hair, at the waist, on a belt, or even on the back.

Antique or modern, real or fabulously faux, brooches on trouser suits or tuxedo-jacket lapels seem the perfect touch to either counter or emphasise the era’s new androgyny. Now also adopted by men, they are pinned on ties or jackets, especially for evening. Both elegant and idiosyncratic, poetic and playful, brooches turn out to be ideal jewels for our gender-fluid times.

So bag a brooch and express yourself, pinperfect, this winter.

Vivienne Becker is a jewellery historian and a contributing editor of the Financial Times’s How to Spend It. Fine Jewels will be on view in New York from 28–31 January.

Auction: 1 February. Enquiries: +1 212 606 7392.

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THE REGINATO FILES

JAMES REGINATO

Pawson showcases his mastery of line and space at London’s new Design Museum.

(Above) Architect John Pawson.

(Opposite) Inside London’s Design Museum, which opened in November 2016.

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On a recent frosty morning in London, a sizable queue was forming outside the Design Museum, eager visitors awaiting its opening for the day.

It was just one week after HRH the Duke of Edinburgh had officially inaugurated the building, but word had clearly gotten out that this new home of the Design Museum – founded

by Sir Terence Conran in 1989 and originally housed in a former banana-ripening warehouse on the Thames – was a winner.

This time around, the institution has repurposed a landmark of British Modernism, the 1962 Commonwealth Institute, built on the edge of Holland Park on Kensington High Street.

To create a brilliant new interior inside a remarkable shell capped by a dramatic, tent-like roof, the Design Museum board wisely chose John Pawson, an architect famed for his refined use of materials and his Minimalist yet sensuously rich spaces.

Over the course of his career, Pawson has designed private homes as well as a wide range of other buildings and interiors, always for very discerning clients. For Calvin Klein, he devised a powerful, elemental flagship store on New York’s Madison Avenue; for the Trappist monks of Nový Dvůr in the Czech Republic, a majestically reductive monastery. Art galleries, condominiums and boats are also part of Pawson’s repertory. At the moment, he is designing a W Hotel in Jaffa, Israel, for developer and art collector Aby Rosen, while in Los Angeles he is building an Edition Hotel for hospitality entrepreneur Ian Schrager.

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Understandably, Pawson is slightly amused to hear the museum described as his first “public” building. “Let’s call it my first easily accessible building,” he says with a grin during a chat in the museum’s café. This broader exposure has brought with it reactions he seldom encounters. “In the past, everybody coming to one of my buildings was likely to be already in tune with what I do,” he explains.

“Here, they are not necessarily coming because they are a Pawson fan – shocking!” he jokes.

“It is a new phenomenon for me to see or hear all these comments. People ranting! Everybody has an opinion!”

A couple of critics, he says, have questioned the amount of so-called unused space in his plan for the building, at the centre of which is a 85-foot-high, oak-lined atrium. Galleries and event spaces are arranged around it as in an opencast mine design. “My whole thing is about unused space. That’s the greatest luxury of all, isn’t it?” he says. “But, of course, I think ‘unused’ space is very well used.” Most visitors seem to be delighted. “The greatest thing for me has been to see all the smiles on people’s faces as they walk in,” he says.

Brought up in Yorkshire, Pawson didn’t begin studying architecture until he was 30.

Previously, he had worked in his parents’ clothing manufacturing business, then lived in Japan for four years. The scrupulously simple, minimalist designs he started creating quickly earned him devoted clients and fans. “I want to

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get to the essence of things, to make sure everything is there for a reason, that nothing is superfluous,” he explains. “To reduce things to the point where nothing can be subtracted.”

Miraculously, his interiors manage to be both rigorous and comfortable. “For me, that’s the whole point – to make it comfortable. I just don’t like a lot of stuff,” he says. “Some people think it has to look comfortable – that the sofa has to look squishy.” On the contrary. “The key thing is clarity,” he says. “I like to have a clear view so any light coming in bounces around.”

As he was conceptualising the museum, Pawson says he took an intuitive approach.

“I didn’t think, ‘Now I am going to design a design museum for the 21st century.’ For me, it was just about trying to make a good building where people feel comfortable, which comes from creating the right circulation, access and visibility, and using the right materials. I used Danish oak throughout the building. The wood panels have acoustic properties that calm the noise down.”

Reflecting on his design, the architect notes that it “is not an art museum – it has a more domestic feel. The idea was to make it a really

(Right) Pawson designed the four-storey, oak-lined atrium as a gathering space.

(Above) A design installation in the museum’s new galleries.

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“MY WHOLE THING IS ABOUT UNUSED SPACE,” PAWSON SAYS. “THAT’S THE GREATEST LUXURY OF ALL, ISN’T IT?”

nice place for people to come and hang out, whether for five minutes or five hours. There are lots of places to wander around or to sit in and think about things, and get in the mood for design.” If anything, Pawson might have been too successful. “People don’t leave!” he exclaims.

“Some have been sleeping on the oak stairs, or breastfeeding their babies on the leather benches.

It’s really nice.”

With 100,000 square feet, the Design Museum has tripled its previous size. Two underground galleries host temporary exhibitions, while a top-floor gallery showcases the permanent collection. Items currently on view include a model of the new London Tube train, the British road signage system, a Burberry trench coat and Christian Louboutin heels. In addition to a café, restaurant, auditorium, event spaces and shop, the building also houses the Swarovski Foundation Centre for Learning and the design- and architecturefocussed Sackler Library and Archive.

“There are ‘moments’ in the building that I relish every time I walk around, but I think it is really the way everything comes together – the old and the new – that gives me the greatest pleasure,” Pawson concludes. “I hope the Design Museum shows people that you don’t have to tear down and start from scratch to make exciting new cultural spaces.” That seems to be the opinion of founder Terence Conran, whom Pawson can count among the museum’s most satisfied attendees. “I think one of the things that John has achieved is a lovely feeling of quality around the space that you don’t find in many British buildings,” Conran says. “I’m full of excitement as we open our magnificent new cathedral of design. It really does feel like our moment has arrived, and that the importance of design to our lives is now truly appreciated.”

Such ringing endorsements of Pawson’s work bodes well for the Design Museum’s future.

James Reginato is writer-at-large of Vanity Fair and author of Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats (Rizzoli, $39.95).

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Founded in 1849, the legendary tailor has the largest in-house cutting team on the Row.

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The first episode of Treasures from Chatsworth, Presented by Huntsman features a portrait by Lucian Freud, who had his suits made by the legendary Savile Row company. With memories of the artist’s fittings rediscovered, Emma Lawson finds surprising parallels between the painter’s art and the tailor’s craft.

o a lady or a gentleman of impeccable taste, few things can parallel the sense of well-being bestowed by a bespoke suit, a second skin whose every detail was chosen with deliberation. It is just as individual as its owner, made to his or her exact measurements and desires with the greatest of skill, care and intelligence.

A luxury that only material success can provide, the tailormade suit remains a dream for most. For the fortunate, it’s a daily habit. For others, it becomes a reality later in life.

Such was the case for British artist Lucian Freud (1922– 2011), who turned to venerable Savile Row tailor Huntsman & Sons when recognition and financial success came his way.

“I work from the people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know,” Freud once said about his practice. He might as well have been describing Huntsman’s tailors, men and women whose craft depends on their interest in and care for their subjects, as well as on the appointments of their surroundings. In operation since 1849, Huntsman’s London showroom, with its stags’ heads and faded royal warrants on the walls, is hallowed ground.

(The firm just opened a New York branch on West 57th Street.) But 11 Savile Row was not Freud’s preferred place for fittings, so Huntsman’s co-head cutter, Dario Carnera, came to the artist’s studio.

As Carnera recalled recently, climbing the stairs to Freud’s studio represented an opportunity to see works in progress and notice “the wall beside the easel, thick with daubs of paint where he’d wipe his pallet knife.” Fitting Freud was a memorable experience for the cutter, who found the artist’s work to have an unexpected similarity with his own craft. “Mr Freud had an interest in the real body, not a manufactured view of it. He interpreted what real people looked like,” Carnera noted. “We see real bodies every day, and each one is different. We treat everyone as an individual. Like Mr Freud, we don’t make people look like something they’re not. Instead, we work to accentuate the positives.”

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The studio was where Freud felt most comfortable and could relax, which was what Carnera needed for his own work. Famously, the artist would spend hours there observing his sitters, then telling the stories behind their gestures in increasingly physical and tactile portraits.

Likewise, the cutter would read the artist’s movements, watching the way he held himself – scrutinising Freud as closely as the artist did his subjects.

“It’s very important that clothes are cut for your true posture, so that when you’re moving around you look your best,” Carnera explained. As he did with every Huntsman client, Carnera would look for the differences between Freud’s left and right sides, the slope of his shoulders, his balance front to back. “I’ve never met one customer who’s exactly symmetrical,” he said. “We all favour one side, and you have to take that into account when you watch someone’s movements.”

Together, artist and cutter would go through pattern books, Freud drawn by the texture, feel and flow of the fabric and the way it would hang. Questions about where and when the artist would wear the garment would be answered, with comfort and practicality coming high on his list. So high, in fact, that Carnera would occasionally find paint smears on Freud’s suits: “I think sometimes he would suddenly be inspired, and just wanted to get an idea down on canvas,” he ventured.

Returning to Savile Row, Carnera would use the measurements as coordinates, then go by what his eyes told him, converting the paper pattern from two dimensions to three. This close attention to the cut would make the first fitting easier, as did Freud’s choice of fabrics, Carnera recalled. Malleable to being shaped to the body’s nuances, the cloth was to Carnera what colour was to Freud, the cutter’s final adjustments echoing the painter’s final brushstrokes. A better match would have been hard to find.

Emma Lawson is a London-based arts and culture writer.

Discover the video series about one of England’s greatest houses, Treasures from Chatsworth, Presented by Huntsman, at sothebys.com/chatsworth.

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Despite profoundly different cultural and family backgrounds, these grandes dames of contemporary art have more than a few things in common, as an upcoming exhibition at Sotheby’s London demonstrates.

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oreign-born, burdened by childhood trauma and given to intense psychological states, both Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama found some measure of relief in New York City, where they achieved recognition as major artistic figures of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. For these exceptional women, making art was always the way to salvation. Throughout her career, the Paris-born Bourgeois (1911–2010) created art that dealt with the emotions resulting from the discovery of her domineering father’s affair with her live-in tutor, all while her knowing mother turned a blind eye. Kusama – born in 1929 to a prosperous family in Matsumoto, Japan – had a difficult upbringing. Her mother’s contempt of a weak husband (who was prone to long absences and serial womanising) and her vehement and violent opposition to Kusama’s wish to become an artist exacerbated her nascent hallucinosis: a psychological condition that would become the lifelong wellspring for her obsessive-compulsive work.

With a carefully curated selection of sculptures, paintings and works on paper presented in its S2 gallery in London from 24 February to 13 April, Sotheby’s is exploring fascinating parallels and disparities between the two artists along a few salient themes: Good Mother/Bad Mother, Dislocation/Displacement, Sexuality/ War and Melancholia/Mania. By way of a preview, the following pages offer some insight into two of them. —Christine Schwartz Hartley

(This page) Yayoi Kusama on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1968, dressed in polka dots.

(Opposite) Louise Bourgeois photographed in her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, New York, 1983.

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Louise Bourgeois’s Spider, 1995, will appear in Traumata at Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery, London.

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For Bourgeois and Kusama, the maternal figure played a complex and ambivalent role, waging traumas that persisted into adulthood and that found representation in their work. Bourgeois repeatedly alluded to the conflicting emotions elicited by her mother as well as her own difficult experience of motherhood. The violence often evoked by her work confronts a taboo on maternal aggression: instead of presenting an exclusively nurturing and passive ideal of motherhood, Bourgeois stakes a claim for a potentially ferocious and powerful mother, an empowered feminine position that challenged gendered stereotypes and patriarchal authority. For Bourgeois, this aggressive yet protective force was embodied by the spider, which was often a stand-in for her own mother, a weaver and tapestry restorer. Deprived of essential maternal love, Kusama – whose mother abused her physically, destroyed her canvases and asked her never to return from the US after leaving Japan in 1957 – developed a simultaneously comforting and frightening hallucinotic world in compensation. Kusama’s identification with annihilative modes of subjectivity, as acutely expressed in her 1967 film SelfObliteration, is therefore not surprising.

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There is a systemic bipolarity to the work of both Bourgeois and Kusama: manic repetition and obsessive production is met with depressive withdrawal and melancholic annihilation. This psychological and creative spiral – propelled by what Freud termed the death drive – persisted with growing intensity throughout their careers. Bourgeois confronted and repeated the traumatic implications of her childhood more intently over time; she was in her eighties when she began creating her powerful and iconic Cells, various enclosures filled with symbolic objects, sculptures and highly charged personal items. For her part, Kusama has increasingly sought to capture in her work the sense of total obliteration she perceives while hallucinating. Her striking mirrored Infinity Rooms recreate this disconnected state, bringing viewers inside Kusama’s vision of endless time and the absoluteness of space.

Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013, on view in 2016 at The Broad museum in Los Angeles.

Traumata: Bourgeois/Kusama will be exhibited at Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery in London from 24 February–13 April. Enquiries: +44 20 7293 5744.

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einventing a major art institution is never an easy task. The longer it has been around and the more attached visitors are to it, the greater the challenge. New Yorkers have the controversies around the transformation and continued expansion of the Museum of Modern Art fresh in mind. In Southern California, the art world and the public at large have been grappling with the future of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for nearly four years. So when LACMA’s leadership suggested removing the institution’s badly deteriorating buildings – three original 1965 structures by William Pereira and a 1986 addition by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates – instead of repairing them, director Michael Govan decided to take an art-positive step to memorialise the museum’s familiar campus. “I thought, ‘Rather than ignore this real sense of nostalgia, let’s commission an artist to confront these sites that have meaning and preserve them in some way,’ ” Govan explains.

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Vera Lutter’s Pepsi Cola, Long Island City IX, July 2, 1998, 1998, unique, silver gelatin print, 55 1⁄4 x 123 inches (140 x 312 cm).

artist Vera Lutter to use her signature pinhole cameras to immortalise the structures and vistas before they are replaced by LACMA’s new Peter Zumthor-designed building.

The resulting works will be exhibited when the museum temporarily downsizes to its Renzo Piano-designed buildings during demolition in 2018. Thanks to Lutter’s forthcoming series of large-scale images (a project sponsored by Sotheby’s), Angelenos will be able to honour the memory of the old LACMA forever.

This is not the first time Govan has worked with Lutter.

He did so in the late 1990s when, as director of the Dia Art Foundation on West 22nd Street in New York’s then-budding Chelsea district, he commissioned the artist to document a vacant Nabisco factory in Beacon, New York, before it was turned into the institution’s new home, Dia:Beacon. “Those images are witnesses to time and place in a way I never imagined photographs could be,” says Govan of Lutter’s monumentally scaled prints of the industrial relic. The artist’s camera obscura process inverts black and white tones, so that her images appear both familiar and otherworldly.

The works, first shown in 1999 at Dia in Chelsea, helped establish Lutter’s career. (She is represented by Gagosian.)

Born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1960, Lutter studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She first experimented with this early camera form when she moved to New York in 1993. “Inspired by the city and the light and the architecture, I decided to turn the loft where I lived into a pinhole camera to document my new surroundings,” she says. “I had no intention of continuing to work with the camera obscura, but the results were so fascinating when I finally achieved them – I’ve done that almost exclusively.”

To produce her images, Lutter constructs large dark chambers, typically from plywood or shipping containers.

Through a hole drilled on one side, light enters and projects an inverted image of what is outside the hole onto the wall opposite, which she has lined with light-sensitive paper. The artist usually inhabits her cameras – they have a sealed area through which Lutter enters and exits – so her eyes adjust to the minimal light and she can watch the projected image during exposure. While monitoring light levels, Lutter can modify the time the light-sensitive paper is exposed – if, for instance, the weather changes unexpectedly. While outdoor exposures may take a day or two, interior shots such as the dimly lit basement of the factory in Beacon have taken up to three months. Other than being necessary for technical and aesthetic reasons, Lutter’s presence within the camera serves another purpose: it makes her happy. “You see birds flying through, cars driving through, people walking through – upside down,” she says. “It’s absolutely magical.”

At LACMA, Lutter’s project has three areas of focus, and with multiple cameras set up around campus, its logistical complexity turns out to be more akin to making a film than a typical documentary photograph. First, the artist is working outdoors, using a mobile camera on wheels to capture four

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“LET’S CONFRONT THESE SITES THAT HAVE MEANING AND PRESERVE THEM,” SAYS MICHAEL GOVAN.

(Above) Lutter’s Nabisco Factory, Beacon I, July 19–22, 1999, 1999, unique, silver gelatin print, 93 x 168 inches (236 x 427 cm).

(Opposite) A work in the artist’s 2015 exhibition at Gagosian, New York.

exterior views. One of them puts the corner of a Pereira structure in juxtaposition with one side of the 1986 addition, so that the buildings’ edges frame a rectilinear Maria Nordman sculpture and palm trees in the distance. After the scene passes through her pinhole process, those trees will appear as white silhouettes while blue sky will read black as night.

Then, Lutter is using two stationary cameras to photograph her own selection of paintings from LACMA’s permanent collection. Their exposures will take about three months each. While the artist has used a smaller trunk-size pinhole camera to capture Greek and Roman sculptures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as well as Degas bronzes in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, she has never experimented on two-dimensional artworks before. “I became very curious about what would happen if I copied photographed art and made it mine by making it bigger or smaller, and by experimenting with the chemistry in the darkroom,” explains Lutter, who has always done her own developing. She has taught herself such processes as solarising and bleaching in anticipation of this project, and the museum has built a darkroom for her on-site.

Finally, the photographer has constructed a third indoor camera – the largest at twenty feet long, eight feet deep and ten feet tall – directly at one end of LACMA’s largest European Old Masters painting and sculpture gallery.

Estimated to take nine months, this exposure will capture the long perspective of the classically installed room, thus echoing the romantic views of museum interiors by such painters as Giovanni Paolo Panini and Charles Willson Peale. “I’m creating a record of something that has existed for a long time for a community,” says Lutter, who is interested in how environments that generations of artists and visitors have known are becoming a thing of the past as museums evolve.

Indeed, according to current renderings, it is unlikely LACMA’s collection will be installed in a traditional manner when its new building is completed in 2023.

The immediate gratification of digital photography doesn’t exist for the artist: Lutter never knows exactly what her process will yield until she develops her prints. While redos are entirely possible with shorter outdoor exposures, the stakes with the nine-month interior gallery exposure are extremely high. “It’s one shot, it’s hugely risky,” she says. “Make a mistake once, and it’s over. But it’s a great excitement.”

Hilarie M Sheets writes regularly for The New York Times and is a contributing editor of Art + Auction and ArtNews.

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MATERIAL WORLD A host of exhibitions and museums dedicated to fashion is changing

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Fashion meets art in a look from Viktor & Rolf’s Spring 2015 haute couture collection Van Gogh Girls.

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In 2015, Giorgio Armani opened Armani/Silos, a striking neo-industrial space in Milan, to showcase the label’s creative output. Giorgio Armani himself curated the photographs in Emotions of the Athletic Body, a recent exhibition celebrating sports. Large-format images from the company’s advertising campaigns and other sources were displayed on giant, concrete-finished slabs that, along with the running-track design on the gallery floor, conjured up a sports arena. If Armani is synonymous with Milan, Gucci is inseparable from Florence, the city where it was founded 90 years ago, and where the Museo Gucci was christened in 2011. Situated just metres from the Uffizi Gallery in a 14th-century building, the Museo hosts thematic exhibitions such as one devoted to Tom Ford’s years as the brand’s creative director and another on the recurring floral motifs in the house’s designs.

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This September, two museums dedicated to legendary couturier Yves Saint Laurent will become sought-after fashion destinations. Both will be overseen by the Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, which maintains a collection of 5,000 pieces of YSL clothing, 15,000 accessories and tens of thousands of sketches. The Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech will occupy a new building designed by French architectural duo Studio KO in the Moroccan city that so captivated Saint Laurent. In Paris, a redesigned museum will open in YSL’s former headquarters at 5 avenue Marceau.

The idea is that as visitors explore his salons and studio, they will understand the couturier not only as a 20th-century fashion legend but also as an artist.

Fashion, of course, has already entered art’s most rarefied province: the museum. And while it was not the first monographic show ever curated, the 2011 Alexander McQueen retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York took fashion exhibitions to a new level. The wildly popular show, Savage Beauty, which travelled to the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London in 2015, led the way for an ever-growing roster of fashion exhibitions in museums.

On view through 5 February at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined explores the idea of vulgarity as a subjective concept expressed by garments ranging from excessively wide 18th-century dresses to Walter van Beirendonck’s Elephant skirt from the Belgian designer’s 2010–2011 Autumn/Winter collection. Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf are the subject of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia (through 26 February). The show celebrates 25 years of the duo’s “wearable art,” including the canvas-and-frame dresses from their Autumn 2015 couture collection. In May, the Met’s Costume Institute is debuting a major retrospective of the creations of Rei Kawakubo, the legendary founder of Comme des Garçons.

Also this spring at London’s V&A is Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion, a retrospective honouring the house’s centenary.

The worlds of art and fashion have always inspired and benefitted each other, says Mitria Di Giacomo, founder of Nexus Plexus NY, a creative marketing and media consultancy with clients in the luxury sector. “It’s a way for designers and brands to focus and to impact brand awareness without being overtly commercial,” she notes. “There’s a creative energy that happens when you bring art into the equation, and fashion brings glamour and increased exposure to the art world.”

Museums and galleries do not wish to be mere shop windows for designers. Rather, institutions aim to put these creators’ work into an artistic, social and historical context that offers viewers something they will not find in stores. In a museum setting, this often means displaying the clothes alongside related works of art. The recent Missoni Art Colour exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey in London showcased more than 60 years’ worth of looks by

(Clockwise from right) An installation view of The Vulgar at London’s Barbican and the elephant skirt by Walter van Beirendonck featured in the show; the Emotions of the Athletic Body exhibition at Armani/Silos in Milan; a canvas-and-frame dress by Viktor & Rolf from their Autumn 2015 haute couture collection.

the Italian label as well as textile studies and paintings by Ottavio Missoni, all shown alongside works by Sonia Delaunay, Lucio Fontana and other 20th-century artists who influenced him. In a similar vein, an upcoming show at the Hepworth Wakefield in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, is the result of a collaboration between the Hepworth and Londonbased designer JW Anderson. Disobedient Bodies (18 March–18 June) will combine fashion pieces by legendary couturiers with figurative sculpture chosen by Anderson.

WITH EXHIBITIONS IN MUSEUMS AS WELL AS IN THEIR OWN SPACES, FASHION BRANDS ARE INCREASINGLY SHARING THEIR ARCHIVES WITH THE PUBLIC.

Earlier, in 2015, London’s Fashion and Textile Museum had collaborated with Liberty, the famed London store and fabric house to curate Liberty in Fashion. The exhibition was based on the holdings of vintage-fashion curator and collector Cleo Butterfield, who shares with the museum a particular passion for Liberty fabric and the artistic fashions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, explains director Celia Joicey.

“The history of Liberty, not only as one of the most influential English stores but also as a design studio, provides a powerful opportunity to research not only the history of fashion and textiles, but the history of retailing too,” she says. “The exhibition enabled us to explore the relationship between art and commerce in a critical and historical framework.”

Such connections will be addressed in an object-driven show opening 1 October at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. With 99 iconic creations that have had a demonstrable cultural impact – such as the classic little black dress and 501 jeans by Levi’s – Items: Is Fashion Modern? will consider production, distribution, functionality, politics and other issues beyond the designs themselves. The show reprises MoMA’s 1944 exhibition Are Clothes Modern?, the last fashion-themed show the museum organised. With growing public interest and an increasing number of fashion exhibitions around the world, MoMA could not have chosen a more relevant moment to raise the question anew.

Simon Brooke writes about the luxury and fashion sectors for The Financial Times, Esquire and The Sunday Times, among other publications.

This article has been adapted from Sphere magazine, winter 2016.

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Swaying weeping willows, ferns in clusters, colourful bursts of perennials in a carpet of green. With myriad propitious enclaves for repose and dreaming amid more than three acres in which to roam and play, the English-style garden at Herzogpark is a wondrous sight, made all the more precious for being located in the centre of Munich, Germany’s third-largest city. Yet there it is, the most sizeable private park and plot of land in the capital of Bavaria, the city where Germany’s high standards of living are at their peak, and whose vibrant cultural, business and tech scenes attract 70 million visitors each year.

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Herzogpark, created at the turn of the 20th century, is among the numerous accomplishments – including reorganising Prince-Elector Charles Theodore’s army and designing a beloved English Garden along the Isar River – the city owes to Benjamin Thomson, an American-born, British-knighted physicist. The property is located in Bogenhausen, one of Munich’s most exclusive and desirable neighbourhoods, which has been home to entrepreneurs, scientists and artists (including writer Thomas Mann) since the 1920s. Today, with such cultural beacons as Villa Stuck and the Prinzregententheater nearby, and the shops at Kufsteiner and Herkomerplatz minutes away, its location remains ideal.

While its beautifully landscaped park offers unequalled refuge from the stresses of 21st-century living, the residence – built in 1954 and pristinely maintained (an extension was added three decades ago) – affords its owners all the amenities of our time. Renovated continually from the 1980s to the present, the main building’s 15,069 square feet of living space offer high-quality design details, natural stone and wood floors, an open fireplace, as well as large picture windows that bring in the glorious surroundings. As befits such a luxurious retreat, the house on Mauerkircherstrasse is set up to ensure the well-being of its inhabitants, and it features a spa area and two pools – one outdoors and one indoors, opening to the garden. Guests are guaranteed privacy in their separate quarters, while parking is provided for six cars.

An oasis of calm and beauty in one of Europe’s busiest cities, Herzogpark embodies an exquisite combination of nature and culture, tradition and modernity that few other properties can rival.

Price upon request Property ID: 2MWJ4E Munich Sotheby’s International Realty Michael Reiss +49 89 744 241 890

(Clockwise, from top) Herzogpark’s residence offers calming views of the tranquil brook and surrounding centennial trees; massive custom picture windows on the ground floor frame stunning scenery; and a charming footbridge crosses the brook just steps away from the main building.

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ong before the retail chains we know, Woolworth’s was the most successful American and international five-anddime, the originator of a model that is still relevant today. As a result, three decades after his first Utica, New York, store opened in 1879, Frank W Woolworth had become a genuine mogul, eager to secure a prominent corner of Manhattan and erect the kind of trophy headquarters he would call “an ornament to the city.”

To do so, Woolworth turned to Cass Gilbert, an architect trained in the principles of Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A Midwesterner and early proponent of the skyscraper, Gilbert seized the opportunity to develop his ideas on an unprecedented scale. Woolworth famously asked him: “How high can you make the tower?”

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height of nearby Trinity Church, then New York’s loftiest structure. Built in just two years, the daring construction was amply chronicled throughout the world. Finally on 24 April 1913, with the flip of a switch from inside the White House, President Woodrow Wilson officially illuminated the Woolworth Building, thus inaugurating the world’s tallest construction.

First anointed “the Cathedral of Commerce” in reference to its Gothic-style architecture, the Woolworth Building has been continuously admired for its gorgeous, polychromatic terracotta-clad facade.

Long a beacon of New York’s TriBeCa, the neo-Gothic icon stands as the most imposing neighbour to the west of New York’s administrative centre, City Hall, and the adjacent, newly restored City Hall Park.

Today, just over a century after its completion, this National Historic Landmark is experiencing a rebirth. Developed by Alchemy Properties under the aesthetic direction of eminent New York-based design

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architect Thierry W Despont, its top 30 floors have been reimagined into 33 prized condominium homes, crowned by an extraordinary eight-storey pinnacle penthouse.

Called The Woolworth Tower Residences, the homes honour the pioneering spirit and exquisite attention to detail of the building’s creator. The perfect proportions of Gilbert’s tower provide an ideal canvas for Despont’s timeless yet contemporary aesthetic, while generously arranged floor plans are designed for entertaining.

With elevated ceiling heights, solid-oak herringbone floors and oversize windows framed by terracotta facade detailing, each home offers cinematic views of the surrounding cityscape and waterways. In this historic landmark, The Woolworth Tower Residences will remain a classic for generations.

From $4,575,000 | thewoolworthtower.com Sotheby’s International Realty – Manhattan Brokerage Stan Ponte and Joshua Judge + 1 212 418 1222 info@thewoolworthtower.com.

(Clockwise, from top) Grand in its proportions, this corner great room offers extraordinary views framed by Cass Gilbert’s beautiful terracotta surrounds; custom kitchens feature Dada cabinetry and Calacatta Caldia marble countertops; the private lobby at 2 Park Place is exclusively reserved for tower residents.

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FEBRUARY–MARCH 2017

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

JANUARY

25 MASTER PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE Exhibition 20–25 January Auction 25–26 January New York

19 Selling Exhibition

NATURALIA: IN COLLABORATION WITH PAUL KASMIN GALLERY 19 January–4 March Paul Kasmin Gallery New York

Property from a European Collection NAUM GABO Model for a Sculpture in Rotterdam (Final Model for Bijenkorf Construction, Rotterdam), 1955 £200,000–300,000 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening

1 March, London

OLD MASTER DRAWINGS

1 February, New York (Below)

From the Collection of Joan Oestreich Kend Two extremely rare famille-rose enamelled porcelain figures of Ksitigarbha (one shown), Qing dynasty, Qianlong/ Jiaqing period $150,000–250,000 Important Chinese Art

THE IMAGINARY WORLD OF DIEGO GIACOMETTI Exhibition 25–29, 31 January Paris

FEBRUARY

2 S|2 Selling Exhibition

1 FINE JEWELS Exhibition 28 January– 1 February Auction 1 February New York

RAYMOND PETTIBON 2 February–17 March New York

15 March, New York

14 Online Auction

AMERICAN ART: PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE FROM THE WILKES UNIVERSITY COLLECTION

8 BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS Exhibition 3–4, 6–7 February Auction 8 February Paris

RM SOTHEBY’S PARIS Exhibition 7–8 February Auction 8 February Paris

14–28 February

16 17 Online Auction

CONTEMPORARY ART ONLINE 17 February–3 March

EROTIC: PASSION & DESIRE Exhibition 10–15 February Auction 16 February London

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(Above) 18-karat gold and diamond “Mayfair” brooch, Van Cleef & Arpels, France, circa 1970 $70,000–90,000 Fine Jewels

Exhibition 20–24 January Auction 25 January New York

23 NOW! Exhibition 18, 20–22 February Auction 23 February Paris

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25 FINEST AND RAREST WINES

22 FINEST & RAREST WINES Auction 22 February London

24 S|2 Selling Exhibition

TRAUMATA: BOURGEOIS/KUSAMA 24 February–13 April London

Auction 25 February New York

MARCH

2 IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART DAY

(Above) JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON Bust of Voltaire $150,000–250,000 Master Paintings & Sculpture Day

26 January, New York (Below) 1941 SS 100 Jaguar 2½-Litre Roadster, Chassis no. 49061 €385,000–445,000 RM Sotheby’s Paris

8 February, Paris

Exhibition 23–28 February Auction 2 March London

CONTEMPORARY CURATED Exhibition 25 February– 1 March Auction 2 March New York

IN ITS OWN LIGHT: PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ED COHEN & VICTORIA SHAW Exhibition 25 February– 1 March Auction 2 March New York

1 IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART EVENING Exhibition 23–28 February Auction 1 March London

SURREALIST ART EVENING Exhibition 23–28 February Auction 1 March London

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(Above) GERHARD RICHTER Abstraktes Bild (843-4), 1997 $600,000–800,000 In Its Own Light: Property from the Collection of Ed Cohen & Victoria Shaw

2 March, New York (Below) Three decades of Biondi-Santi from the estate’s Family Collection (1968 shown here) Estimates upon request Finest and Rarest Wines

25 February, New York

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A LYRICAL LINE: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA 3–20 March

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DIFFERENT PATHS: EXPLORATIONS IN INK

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CONTEMPORARY ART DAY Exhibition 4–8 March Auction 9 March London

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14 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN ART Exhibition 7–13 March Auction 14 March New York

MING. THE INTERVENTION OF IMPERIAL TASTE Exhibition 9–13 March Auction 14 March New York

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Property from the Collection of Lord & Lady Attenborough PABLO PICASSO Le repas frugal (Bloch 1; Baer 2) £60,000–80,000 Prints & Multiples

28 March, London (Below) An exceptionally rare large blue and white reserve-decorated “peony” dish, Xuande mark and period $1,000,000–1,500,000 Ming. The Intervention of Imperial Taste

14 March, New York

FINE CLASSICAL CHINESE PAINTINGS & CALLIGRAPHY Exhibition 9–15 March Auction 16 March New York

22 FINEST AND RAREST WINES Auction 22 March London

28 PRINTS & MULTIPLES Exhibition 24–27 March Auction 28 March London

A SCOTTISH LEGACY: TWO GREAT FAMILIES Exhibition 23–24, 26–28 March Auction 28–29 March London

10 RM SOTHEBY’S: AMELIA ISLAND Exhibition 9–10 March Auction 10–11 March Amelia Island, Florida

15 INDIAN, HIMALAYAN & SOUTHEAST ASIAN WORKS OF ART

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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART Exhibition 9–13 March Auction 15 March New York

18 SATURDAY AT SOTHEBY’S: ASIAN ART Exhibition 9–18 March Auction 18 March, New York

23 WORKS ON PAPER & MODERN ART Exhibition 18, 20–22 March Auction 23–24 March, Paris

29 DESIGN Exhibition 25–28 March Auction 29 March New York

FINE JEWELS

Exhibition 25, 27–29 March Auction 31 March Paris

A gilt-bronze figure depicting Tara, Tibet, circa 15th century $80,000–120,000 Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art Including Property from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Exhibition 9–14 March Auction 15 March New York

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THE COLLECTION OF ERIK LE CARUYER DE BEAUVAIS

Property from a Private Connecticut Collection

Auction 30 March London

BACRI FRÈRES – ANTIQUAIRES Exhibition 25, 27–29 March Auction 30 March Paris

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HOW TO BUY AT AUCTION

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Register At least 24 hours before the auction, visit sothebys.com and register for the sale in a few simple steps. Or telephone the Sotheby’s location where the auction will take place. Either way, it will only take a few minutes.

An auction is the simplest and most trusted way to buy art – and at Sotheby’s, it has never been easier.

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Browse the Catalogue Go to sothebys.com and browse the complete catalogue of art for sale. Or download Sotheby’s free iOS and Android apps on your mobile device.

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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.

Pick Up After the sale, you may settle your account and take your newly acquired art with you. Or we would be happy to arrange delivery.

Visit the Exhibition The week of the sale, visit our beautiful galleries to view the art you are interested in owning. All exhibitions and auctions are free and open to the public.

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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.

GLOBAL SALE HIGHLIGHTS

(Left) ORAZIO GENTILESCHI Head of a Woman $2,000,000–3,000,000 (Opposite) WILLEM DROST Flora $400,000–600,000 Master Paintings & Sculpture Evening

25 January, New York

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hough executed more than three centuries apart on opposite sides of Europe and

in different media, Lelio Orsi’s design for a major outdoor fresco and Edward Coley Burne-Jones’s ambitious stained glass-related watercolour share the timeless ability to tell a story with extraordinary brilliance, energy and power. Turner’s serene Swiss view, on the other hand, is breathtakingly minimal, yet still completely engrossing.

(Above) LELIO ORSI Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun $50,000–70,000 Old Master Drawings

25 January, New York

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(Right above) WALTON FORD Loss of the Lisbon Rhinoceros, 2008 Price upon request (Right below) ALBRECHT DÜRER The Rhinoceros, 1515 Price upon request Naturalia: In Collaboration with Paul Kasmin Gallery

19 January–4 March, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

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otheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening sale features an array of paintings, works on paper and

sculpture by leading artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including a bronze Penseur by Auguste Rodin from the collection of Lord and Lady Attenborough and a striking painting by Fernand Léger that exemplifies the colourful figurative compositions that define his late work.

Other highlights include sculptures

by Alexander Archipenko and Naum Gabo and a dynamic abstract watercolour by Wassily Kandinsky that epitomises the geometric designs of his Bauhaus period.

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The Collection of Lord and Lady Attenborough AUGUSTE RODIN Penseur, petit modèle, cast between 1920 and 1930 £800,000–1,000,000 (Opposite)

Property from a Private Collection, Sweden FERNAND LÉGER L’Etoile blanche, 1946 £1,000,000–1,500,000 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening

1 March, London

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his February’s Surrealist Art Evening sale features a wonderful variety of works by some of the

most important artists of the movement.

Among the highlights are Paul Delvaux’s enigmatic dreamscape Jeunes filles au bord de l’eau. This will be presented alongside an important 1940 gouache by René Magritte, Le Repas de noces. Painted with exquisite attention to detail, the work embodies Magritte’s highly developed form of Surrealism. The sale also includes works

by Joan Miró, Francis Picabia and Oscar Domínguez, as well as a rare, unique object

by Marcel Duchamp.

Property from a Private French Collection RENÉ MAGRITTE Le Repas de noces, 1940 £900,000–1,200,000 Surrealist Art Evening

1 March, London

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ur March Evening auction is led by a selection of outstanding works by contemporary masters,

including Gerhard Richter’s luminous 1982 landscape painting Eisberg, a seminal Hero painting by Georg Baselitz and the extraordinary L’ Homme au Papillon by Jean Dubuffet, formerly in the esteemed collection of E J Power. The sale also features Sigmar Polke’s Die Schmiede and an iconic Smoker by Tom Wesselmann, as well as key examples by such post-war masters as Yves Klein, Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana.

Furthermore, the sale will include outstanding works by Yayoi Kusama, Louise Bourgeois and Carol Rama.

Property from a Private European Collection GERHARD RICHTER Eisberg, 1982 £8,000,000–12,000,000 Contemporary Art Evening

8 March, London

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highly select group of extraordinary Ming porcelain will be presented at auction

this Asia Week, illustrating the power and diplomacy of the Ming court. The sale will celebrate the innovative refinement of Ming porcelain, with the chosen works displaying the breadth and boldness of new designs and techniques. One of the highlights of the sale is a rare and large Xuande period blue and white reservedecorated peony dish. With its ambitious design and decoration technique, the dish ranks among the rarest and most celebrated examples of early Ming dynasty porcelain. ᱙႐ϋ≟㬊㶀䕞ᄴॵ⢨̭㈨݄㇫䖥ᬻ⨤⣺ ৮喑ᓋ㬊㶀⮱㻿Ꮣҳᆂ⤫๔ᬻ⮱స䷕ࣷᒞ 䴬ȡ᭜⁎៺䈐ᒝ䶜ᬻ⨤‫ޢ‬᫝㇫䕟⮱̭䲏喑А 㶕‫ڣ‬᭯䲖᫝㽚㼵ឭ㶀⮱ᐐᏓহ⾮ⵡᕔȡ៺䈐 ♓吋͸̭◧ᬻაᓤ㫺ౝ⮪㟞➎ͦ㈸๔Ⱁ喑丫 ㈸䕍ಸⰎ䶜ࡍ㬊䯱ᓰ喑Ͱ⣺㒂ᬻ݊⨤க‫ܧ־‬ ‫ڥ‬Ҹȡ

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$800,000–1,200,000 Ming. The Intervention of Imperial Taste

14 March, New York ᬻeస ䷕ ㈽㈱៺䈐 3 ᰵ14ᬒ

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his March, Sotheby’s auction of

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comprising all major collecting categories

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in the field of Chinese art. Highlights

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include two extremely rare famille-rose enamelled porcelain figures of Ksitigarbha from the Collection of Joan Oestreich (Above ̷ృ) A carved cinnabar lacquer brushpot, Qing dynasty, Qianlong/Jiaqing period

Kend, early Song ceramics, imperial Qing porcelain, jade carvings and classical huanghuali and hardwood furniture.

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$50,000–70,000 Important Chinese Art

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(Above ̷ృ) XU BEIHONG Lion, mounted for framing ᒽᗟ 剨 䯱⡲ 㽚㞟㉆ ᱙ 䤎 ❴

$150,000–200,000 Fine Classical Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy

16 March, New York ͚స ᰥ ⪘ ㈽㈱៺䈐 3 ᰵ16ᬒ

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(Right) RAYMOND PETTIBON Untitled (Her value quadrupled), 1987 Price upon request S|2 Selling Exhibition Raymond Pettibon

2 February–17 March, New York

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n 23 March, during the week Paris is to host the celebrated Salon du Dessin and Drawing

Now, Sotheby’s is pleased to present an inaugural sale fully dedicated to Modern and contemporary works on paper.

This new sale is aimed at seasoned connoisseurs and new collectors alike.

The French capital has always been a pivotal centre for drawings enthusiasts, and through a selection of Modern and contemporary works with a wide range of estimates, Sotheby’s hopes to contribute to this collecting area. The following day, the Impressionist and Modern Art sale devoted to paintings and sculptures will be held.

The proximity of these two auctions provides an opportunity for collectors to view the finest selection of works in these categories during a remarkably exciting week.

(Above) ALBERTO GIACOMETTI Portrait de Louis Aragon, 1946 €80,000–120,000 Works on Paper & Modern Art

23–24 March, Paris

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KIRKKONUMMI FINLAND

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$16,000,000 US

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Separated master suite. Spread over three levels, all guest bedrooms offer privacy. Two living areas, chef's kitchen, pool and more.

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€10,900,000

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$11,500,000 US

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$10,250,000 US

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CAREFREE ARIZONA

Magnificent Desert Contemporary This stunning home has amazing views from every window. Located in the exclusive gated Grandview Estates, this award winning home is thoughtfully positioned in the natural boulders of Black Mountain.

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$3,500,000

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Approximately 11,150 sq. ft. Extraordinary amenities include gym, home theater, wine room, sports bar and game room. Tranquil rim views.

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$14,995,000

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Over three and one half acre bluff setting with 204 ft. of ocean frontage.

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Talis Park Defined by its spectacular golf course setting, this designer furnished home showcases the finest in craftsmanship and is perfectly situated on a Greg Norman-Pete Dye designed golf course with panoramic views of the 11th green. A four bedroom, four and one half bath residence that offers natural materials and walls of windows and doors that place the focus on its southerly views. An open floor plan with living, dining and kitchen spaces that transition seamlessly to a spacious outdoor covered patio with pool and entertaining area. The clean-lined interior architecture includes a designer kitchen with Brookhaven cabinets, top-of-the-line Bosch appliances and a 10 ft. breakfast bar that is truly a standout featuring a Quartz waterfall countertop. A private master suite and bath with a generously-sized shower and floating tub, custom designed walk-in closets and French doors that lead you out to the pool and spa. Resort-style club amenities complete this exceptional home that offers endless opportunities to relax, play and entertain.

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MIAMI FLORIDA

Turnberry Ocean Club Three to six bedroom residences with direct ocean and bay views.

Exclusive membership to Turnberry Isle Resort/Country Club. Five-Star concierge services and three swimming pools. Now under construction.

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JUPITER FLORIDA

Tuscan Style Home at Ranch Colony Situated on the third hole of the Fazio Golf Course, this 2008 Tuscan style home features four bedrooms, three and one half bathrooms, large master suite, covered patio with outdoor fireplace and summer kitchen.

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$1,849,000

OLD WESTBURY NEW YORK

"Hastings House" Set on Over 19 Bucolic Acres Stunning French Country Manor, two beautifully renovated guest houses, plus staff house. Outdoor rooms perfect for entertaining: pool, tennis, three-car garage, apartment, elevator and subdividable.

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$7,995,000

MUTTONTOWN NEW YORK

"Joy Spring" Located in the gated community of Stone Hill, an unparalleled lifestyle.

Large principal rooms, chef’s kitchen and sumptuous master.

Gardens, pool, spa, cabana, home theater, wine cellar and gym.

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$3,495,000

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SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE NEW YORK

Murray Compound Custom-Built Estate Private ocean access on approximately two acres, designed by Fleetwood & McMullan Architects, interiors conceived of, built and installed by renowned Italian Achille Salvagni Atelier. Offered furnished.

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BRIDGEHAMPTON NEW YORK

Resort Living with Sunset Views Close to ocean beaches. Six bedroom, five and one half bath traditional.

Heated gunite pool. Two story approximately 1,500 sq. ft. pool house with kitchenette, full bath, laundry and recreation space on both floors.

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$4,795,000

BROOKLYN NEW YORK

Luxury Townhouse in Cobble Hill This four bedroom, five bath townhouse offers the unique combination of historic design coupled with modern living to create an optimum blend of charm and convenience.

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$5,195,000

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.

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$7,250,000

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NEW YORK NEW YORK

212 West 18th Street, Apartment 18D Perched high atop the renowned Walker Tower, boasting 10 ft. plus ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, approximately 2,850 sq. ft., top of the line finishes and yields views of the New York City skyline.

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$11,995,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

1150 Fifth Avenue, Apartment 15A This prewar eight room apartment with nine and one half ft. ceilings is the only Fifth Avenue apartment where the views of the inside match the stunning park and skyline views. A complete renovation by iGrace.

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$11,750,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

425 West 50th Street, Penthouse A Truly a gem atop a masterpiece at Stella Tower. This magnificent three bedroom, three full and two half bath residence has been thoughtfully laid out for the ultimate form of luxury living.

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$11,495,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

Townhouse in the Sky This sun-drenched five bedroom, four and one half bath triplex in the heart of Greenwich Village features two private rooftop terraces and offers the best of penthouse and townhouse living.

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$11,250,000

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NEW YORK NEW YORK

94th Off 5th Avenue Distinguished by a meticulous 2012 gut-renovation. This 25 ft. wide, six story townhouse is offered in mint condition. A spectacular sixth floor rooftop terrace enjoys views to Central Park.

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$29,500,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

998 Fifth Avenue One of the most distinguished co-ops in New York City, this 14 room apartment is beautifully renovated and features sun flooded interiors, soaring high ceilings and truly exceptional architectural details.

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$29,000,000

NEW YORK NEW YORK

The Carlyle, 19th Floor With over 75 linear ft. facing Central Park, this high floor aerie offers a buyer the unique opportunity to create your dream apartment in one of Manhattan’s most elegant buildings, The Carlyle Hotel.

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NEW YORK NEW YORK

737 Park Avenue, Apartment 20C Built in 1940, this building has undergone a complete transformation; retaining its classical prewar feel while incorporating the state-of-the-art luxuries desired for modern living.

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$12,750,000

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SPORTING DELUXE

A darling of classic-era sporting enthusiasts, the Bugatti Type 57S is legendary for its high power, light handling and overall refinement. Just 43 of the exceptionally rare cabriolets were built on the same competition chassis as the iconic Bugatti Atlantic Coupé. This 1937 example, one of only three open cars with rare coachwork by Vanvooren of Paris, stands out from the already exclusive group. Offered for public sale for the first time in its 80-year history, the 57S has never been completely disassembled.

1937 Bugatti Type 57S Cabriolet

by Vanvooren, Chassis no. 57513 $8,500,000–10,000,000 RM Sotheby’s Amelia Island Amelia Island, Florida Exhibition: 9–10 March Auction: 10–11 March Enquiries: +1 519 352 4575

Enjoy its exceptional charm or consider it a candidate for restoration. If so, you could expect this classic to compete on the international concours scene, perhaps even to earn “Best of Show.”

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Never completely disassembled for restoration, this car exhibits wonderful originality and character, as evidenced by the beautifully patinated upholstery.

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2. LIVERY The current livery of black over primrose yellow was applied early by noted collector TA Roberts OBE, whose ownership alone adds to the T57S’s desirability.

3. COACHWORK This Bugatti’s body was one of three designed and executed by Parisian luxury car coachbuilder Carrosserie Vanvooren (1910–50) during its heyday in the 1930s.

4. PURITY Believed to be the only example in private hands with original chassis, engine, body and gearbox, this cabriolet has rare mechanical purity after eight decades of motoring.

5. ENGINEERING A tremendously sporting presence, the 57S owes much of its good looks to an engineering marvel that allowed the entire car to sit extremely low on the chassis.

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