An Intriguing Renaissance Holy Family at Bonhams Paris
An unusually accomplished sixteenth-century Holy Family, attributed to Giovanni Battista Ramenghi, is among the more intriguing works in Bonhams' forthcoming Old Master sale in Paris.
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Attribué à Giovanni Battista Ramenghi, dit il Bagnacavallo, Sainte Famille avec Sainte Anne et Saint Jean Baptiste, oil on panelBonhams, Paris Source. 
Euan Uglow (British, 1932-2000) Palm Tree signed and titled 'Euan Uglow/Palm Tree.' (on an artist's label attached to the stretcher) oil on canvas, 45.8 x 45.8 cm. (18 x 18 in.) Painted in 1971Bonhams Source. A new test for Uglow at Bonhams
Palm Tree follows a record £793,600 sale at Christie’s, while a substantial group of Lowrys arrives as MK Gallery opens its reassessment of the painter.
Wassily Kandinsky, Betonte Ecken (1922 to 23).Christie’s Source. Christie’s sets its sights on a new Kandinsky record
Estimated at $60m-$80m, Betonte Ecken comes to New York with a Guggenheim provenance and a reported third-party guarantee.
VANESSA BELL (1879-1961) Adrian and Virginia Stephen on the Lawn oil on board 14 ½ x 13 ¾ in. (36.8 x 34.9 cm.) Painted circa 1909.Christie's Source. Early Vanessa Bell of Virginia Woolf brings £57,600 at Christie’s
Offered without reserve, a small family scene drew attention to a scarce surviving work from Bell’s formative years.
Jusepe de Ribera, called Lo Spagnoletto (Xàtiva 1591–Naples 1652), An Elderly Woman with a Tambourine (The Sense of Hearing), ca. 1637, oil on oval canvas, 48 × 40 cm (18 7/8 × 15 3/4 in.)Colnaghi Source. From Stanley Spencer to Van Dyck and Brueghel: Frieze Masters 2026 Opens in London
Frieze Masters returns to Regent’s Park on 14 October, bringing together more than 140 international galleries. Among the highlights are an exceptional Stanley Spencer at Offer Waterman, a monumental Van Dyck at Colnaghi and a magnificent Jan Brueghel the Elder still life with a remarkable history.
Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903 - 1975 Shaft and Circle Irish marble height (excluding base): 116 cm. 45¾ in. Carved in 1972, this work is unique.Sothebys Source. An embarrassment of riches: Christie’s tightens its grip on the Modern British market
An extraordinary concentration of masterpieces by Hepworth, Nicholson, Lanyon, Bomberg and Auerbach makes Christie’s forthcoming October auctions a feast for collectors. Sotheby’s comparatively modest offering raises a wider question: has Christie’s dominance of the Modern British market become self-perpetuating?
Luca Giordano, (Naples 1634–1705) The Massacre of the Innocents, oil on canvas, 166 x 208.5 cmDorotheum Source. Giordano’s Massacre of the Innocents stands out in Dorotheum’s October Old Masters sale
The newly published catalogue for the Vienna auction on 21 October includes an impressive Luca Giordano and a newly attributed Saint Jerome by Hendrick de Somer.
Barbara Hepworth 'Sculpture with Colour (Eos)' (1946)' Hopton Wood stone, 59.1 cm Image: Christie's© Bowness Source. Hepworth’s Sculpture with Colour (Eos) returns to auction following landmark Courtauld exhibition
Barbara Hepworth’s remarkable 1946 stone carving, Sculpture with Colour (Eos), is returning to Christie’s a decade after achieving $5.43 million in New York. Recently exhibited in the Courtauld Gallery’s acclaimed Hepworth in Colour exhibition, the work will be among the highlights of Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale in London on 21 October 2026.
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975) Orpheus (Maquette 1)Christie’s Source. Another Hepworth Orpheus Comes to Auction Following £952,900 Bonhams Sale
Barbara Hepworth’s Orpheus (Maquette I) returns to the auction market at Christie’s this October, offering a fresh test of demand for one of the sculptor’s most distinctive works of the 1950s.
CORNELIS CORNELISZ. VAN HAARLEM (HAARLEM 1562-1638) Hercules and Achelous, 1590Christie's Source. 
Harold Gilman 1876 - 1919, Mary L. , signed H. Gilman (lower left) oil on canvasSothebys Source. 
Dame Barbara Hepworth, Small Form (Amulet) 1960Sotheby's Source. 1960 Hepworth leads Sotheby's Modern British sale
20cm wide white alabaster carved by Barbara Hepworth estimated between £600-800,000 guaranteed with an irrevocable bid.
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. 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.
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. 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.
John Nash, Boxted Mill Pool, 1950s (catalogue dating). Oil on canvas, 66 × 84.5 cm. Collection of Humphrey Boyle.Image: Tennants Auctioneers. Source. 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.
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. 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.
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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. 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.
