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Friday, 25 September 2026

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.