Bonhams’ evening sales are scheduled for October 16 at the auction house’s London headquarters, which includes 15 high-profile locations including paintings by Monet and Renoir, leaf paintings by Ana Mendieta, and oval alabaster sculptures by Anish Kapoor.
The top two are Monet Routing De Giverny (1885), showing a country road around the hills of Giverny, a village in Normandy, Monet (Monet) Chiens Savants, Ou Le Carnaval des Chiens (1922) by French-Japanese artist Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita. Presales for both are estimated at $2 million to $2.7 million
According to Bonhams, the Foujita painting is a painting depicting nine dogs of various breeds, two of which were dressed in human clothes, acquired by the family of its current owners, which was acquired in the family of its current owners, which was in the exhibition of Japanese art, as part of the Salon de la lasociéténato, in Paris in Paris. It was drawn over the decade of the Paris era in Foujita, during which he became friends with artists such as Modigliani, Soutine and Picasso.
Other interesting products include Anselm Keifer’s huge mixed media painting on the lead ship in Rough Seas (Urim and Tumim, Est. $600,000-$870,000) and the bold colored, abstract portrait of the British diplomat’s wife (Mrs. Acton of Delhi, Est. $8.10,000-$1.1 million). Other highlights are below.
