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| This week’s stories David Hockney’s first double portrait: Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, 1968 |
 | | | Included in every one of Hockney’s most important retrospectives, and held in the same private collection for the past 40 years | | |
 | | | ‘Provocative and brilliant’ — art and design from the collection of Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson | |
 | | | Paintings owned by Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan: ‘It is hard not to be dazzled’ | |
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 | | | Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg, and the Hermès HAC bag they cherished across half a century | |
 | | | Oscar Wilde’s personal copy of his scandalous play Salomé, gifted to his lover Robert Ross | |
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 | | | Masterpieces of Buddhist art, from India, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia, in Hong Kong | |
 | | | How indigenous Australian art found a haven, high in the Swiss Alps, at the Fondation Opale | |
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Roses Beneath the Moonlight is a delicately luminous work from 1988 by Yang Shanshen. Born in Guangdong province in 1913, he was a follower of the Lingnan school of painting, which aimed to expand the horizons of Chinese art by bringing in influences from abroad. Yang studied in Japan in his twenties, developing a beguiling, naturalistic style in his depictions of flowers and wildlife Estimate: HK$50,000-100,000
29 October, Hong Kong | |
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This rare reversible games board was made about 400 years ago in Gujarat, on India’s west coast, for a very wealthy, perhaps royal, patron. On one side is a chessboard in tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl. The other side, which includes two small walled sections, appears to be ornately laid out for a gambling game called barato, of which alas little is known but the name Estimate: £80,000-120,000
30 October, London | |
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Lyonel Feininger painted Benz, an Expressionist view of a small town in Germany, in 1924. Though a New Yorker by birth, he is strongly associated with the German avant-garde: he went to Hamburg in 1887, at the age of 16, and remained in Europe until the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s, becoming one of the ‘Blue Four’ with fellow painters Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Alexej von Jawlensky Price on request
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Whimsical, colourful and artfully modelled, this majolica tortoise teapot dates from 1878. It was made by the Staffordshire pottery firm Mintons, which was among the most important manufacturers of ceramics in the Victorian era. The lid is formed from part of the tortoise’s shell, with the addition of a conch to help lift it off, and the neck and head serve as the spout Estimate: £8,000-12,000
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