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Wu Guanzhong was on course to be an engineer when he met art student Chu Teh-Chun and decided to join him at the Academy of Art in Hangzhou. With Lin Fengmian among his teachers, Wu learned Eastern and Western styles of art; A Corner of a Garden (By the Lake), from 1977, combines both in one finely balanced work
Estimate: HK$13,500,000-24,000,000
28 May, Hong Kong
The toy-like Hermès handbag known as the Quelle Idole (or Kelly Doll) was introduced in 2000. A digital-age update, this limited-edition Kellydole Picto bag from 2022, which is offered with a mini Kelly Doll charm, has all the playful charisma of its predecessor but in a pixelated, video-game style
Estimate: HK$300,000-400,000
25 May, Hong Kong
Born in Kentucky and trained in Paris, Charles Courtney Curran first visited the artists’ colony of Cragsmoor, New York, in 1903. He returned there to paint every summer for the next four decades, his preferred subject being female figures in radiantly sunlit outdoor settings, as in his breezy 1917 work High Country
Estimate: $30,000-50,000
24 May, New York
This Gothic Revival table has quite a pedigree. It was made by Crace & Co., decorators to the British royal family, following the designs of Augustus Pugin, who masterminded the interiors of the Palace of Westminster. Thomas Tutton Knyfton of Uphill Manor, Somerset, commissioned it as a wedding present for his wife Georgina
Estimate: £25,000-40,000
25 May, London
