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  2. DETAILS PETER LANYON (1918-1964) Cloud Base signed and dated 'Lanyon/62' (centre right), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'CLOUD/BASE/Lanyon May 62' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 48 x 72 in. (121.9 x 182.8 cm.) Painted in 1962
    PETER LANYON (1918-1964) Cloud Base signed and dated 'Lanyon/62' (centre right), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'CLOUD/BASE/Lanyon May 62' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 48 x 72 in. (121.9 x 182.8 cm.) Painted in 1962Christie's Source.

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    Peter Lanyon’s Cloud Base leads our picks from the Peter Simon collection

    An rare early Ben Nicholson relief, an early carved Hepworth torso, Bomberg’s sensational Toledo and an Auerbach charcoal head give Christie’s October sale an exceptionally strong British contingent.

  3. A Christie’s press plate shows twelve album leaves of flowers and birds on the left and boats beneath dark mountain peaks on the right.
    Bada Shanren; Li Keran, Flowers and Birds (left); Sailing in River Li (right), 1699; 1972. Ink on paper; ink and colour on paper, Album leaves: 30.5 × 27.5 cm each; painting: 112 × 145 cm. Private collections.Press plate: Christie’s. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2025. Source.

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    Christie’s to offer Bada Shanren’s 1699 Flowers and Birds album in Hong Kong

    The twelve-leaf album is estimated at HK$12m-18m. Its sale follows a Nanchang exhibition marking 400 years since the painter’s birth.

  4. Trees beside a mill pool reflected in pale water, with a narrow reddish bank, distant fields and a clouded sky.
    John Nash, Boxted Mill Pool, 1950s (catalogue dating). Oil on canvas, 66 × 84.5 cm. Collection of Humphrey Boyle.Image: Tennants Auctioneers. Source.

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    John Nash’s Boxted landscape heads to auction in Yorkshire

    A mill-pool painting from Humphrey Boyle’s collection brings a Royal Academy exhibition history to Tennants, with an estimate of £30,000-£50,000.

  5. An elongated standing female figure in dark bronze, shown against a grey background.
    Alberto Giacometti, Figure, demie grandeur (no. 2), conceived about 1949; cast 1949. Bronze with dark brown patina, 119.4 × 21.1 × 28.8 cm. Herbert Lust collection.CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2025. © Succession Alberto Giacometti / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2026. Source.

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    An early Giacometti leads Herbert Lust’s collection at Christie’s

    The US$20m-30m bronze anchors November’s sale. New reporting separates Lust’s friendship with the artist from this particular work’s ownership history.

  6. Two lovers embrace on a bed amid pale blue and white sheets and warm brown drapery.
    Jean-Honoré Fragonard, L’Instant désiré ou Les Amants heureux, 18th century. Oil on canvas, 49.5 × 60.5 cm. Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares collection; sold at Christie’s Paris, 23 September 2026, lot 12.Image: Christie’s. Source.

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    Fragonard makes €10.6 million in Paris, but its destination remains unknown

    Fragonard and Watteau accounted for more than half of the Patiño evening sale. The results leave open the public-access question raised before the auction.