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Fernand Léger believed the future of art lived not in nostalgia, but in invention. L’Anniversaire marks this exact pivot point. Created after the Second World War, this late work merges myth, color, and the human figure into a new visual language that defies traditional realism. Instead of recreating the world as it looks, Léger constructs how the world feels. Bold chromatic rhythm becomes the architecture.
What happens when musician St. Vincent (Annie Clark) and comedian Julio Torres take surrealism into their own hands? As they sit down to play the surrealist drawing game, Exquisite Corpse, what starts as a few lines quickly spirals into something between divine revelation and downtown chaos—part baby’s bottom, part masterpiece. With their sharp wit and stranger-than-fiction imaginations, every stroke becomes its own punchline.
Kindred Lubeck only makes a ring when the stone moves her. That is not a metaphor. The cut, the emotional presence within the material, and the way the gem already wants to exist determine the engraving, architecture, and silhouette. This philosophy guided her in creating Taylor Swift’s engagement ring — a piece that became a global symbol of intimacy, proportion, and t.mes
less design. It is the same instinct that shapes every creation she undertakes today.
Surrealism was never just about dreams and the subconscious—it was also about connection. Behind the movement’s most visionary canvases were relationships defined by passion, collaboration, and creative risk. Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage—each pair shared an emotional and artistic intensity that blurred the lines between muse and master, love and art. Their intertwined stories reveal how desire itself became a medium of surrealist expression.
Serene, deliberate, and quietly radical — Agnes Martin’s The Garden radiates a meditative energy that resists interpretation yet compels reflection. Painted amid the vast light of New Mexico, the work’s soft pinks and blues evoke the shifting skies and desert plains that surrounded her. Here, Martin allowed her brushwork to surface, breaking from her usual restraint to reveal a subtler, more human hand. Beneath the calm symmetry lies a tension between precision and imperfection — a harmony that defines her lifelong pursuit of beauty as a state of mind rather than form.
Painted in 1901, Summer Night at Åsgårdstrand reveals a side of Edvard Munch far removed from the anguish of The Scream. Beneath a lavender sky, figures gather in quiet communion along a village road washed in Nordic light. The brushwork pulses with life — vivid pinks, golden hues, and trembling contours that render the landscape itself as a living organism. This was Munch’s moment of equilibrium: the rare, luminous interlude when solitude and serenity replaced turmoil.
This November, visitors to Replica Shoes
’s new Breuer Building in New York will find a toilet worth its weight in gold. Maurizio Cattelan’s America (2016), a fully functional toilet cast in solid 18-karat gold, will be installed in a bathroom at the Breuer Building, and visitors will be invited to view America one-by-one in an intimate viewing experience. However, the fully functioning sculpture will remain unused for the safety and security of the artwork.
Across five decades, Cindy and Jay Pritzker assembled one of the most discerning collects
ions of Modern and Impressionist art, where intellectual curiosity met aesthetic daring. At its center stands Vincent van Gogh’s Romans parisiens (Les Livres jaunes) (1887), a rare and luminous still life that marked a turning point in the artist’s Paris years. Alongside it, works by Matisse, Gauguin, Beckmann and Kirchner reveal the Pritzkers’ instinct for innovation and emotional power—a vision that extended far beyond the walls of their home.
From Rothko’s luminous veils of color to Calder’s acrobatic balance of line and motion, The Geri Brawerman collects
ion captures a century where modern art found its voice. Shaped by an eye attuned to harmony and humanity, the collects
ion bridges continents and generations — where the tactile realism of Giacometti meets the ethereal abstraction of Gottlieb, and the sculptural grace of Moore converses with the lyricism of Picasso. Each work embodies a moment of artistic reckoning, when the figure gave way to feeling, and form became the language of the soul.
This remarkable Shang dynasty bronze vessel, known as a ding, stands as one of the most extraordinary works of ancient Chinese art. Created around the 12th century BC for ritual food offerings, it embodies the power, belief, and artistry of the early Bronze Age. Its bold form and intricate taotie mask decoration speak to the mysteries of shamanic ritual, while its monumental size reveals it was made for a figure of great importance.
Watch the action as The Contemporary Evening Auction brings together a curated selection of works that reflect the seismic shifts in art-making from the post-war period to the present day, presented by CELINE.
Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer captures a moment where beauty, power, and symbolism converge. Painted in 1914, the work portrays the daughter of Klimt’s most important patrons draped in an imperial Chinese dragon robe — a garment reserved for emperors, reimagined here as a symbol of sensuality and modern freedom. The portrait.mes
rges East and West, fashion and fantasy, turning Elisabeth into an emblem of Vienna’s golden age of culture and style.