a saintly Warhol and an Indonesian masterpiece

Andy Warhol, Saint Apollonia (1984)

Night & Day Editions, Phillips, London, 22-23 January

Estimate: £25,000 to £35,000

Andy Warhol borrowed this picture from a Fifteenth-century altarpiece portray of Saint Apollonia, who was tortured and killed for her Christian beliefs throughout an rebellion in Alexandriain AD249, throughout the Roman rule of Egypt. Apollonia is proven holding a set of pliers, a reference to her tooth being pulled out as a part of the torture (she is the patron saint of dentists). Warhol created the print within the mid-Eighties, when a lot of his work was lifted from Renaissance spiritual imagery, utilizing drastic cropping and flattened colors to make the traditional symbols look extra mass-produced and up to date. This set of 4 screenprints is a part of an version of 250.

Raden Saleh, Javanese Panorama: View of Merbabu and Merapi (1862)

Fashionable and Up to date Artwork, Sotheby’s, Singapore, 18 January

Estimate: greater than $745,000

A uncommon portray by considered one of Indonesia’s earliest Fashionable artists will likely be exhibited to the general public for the primary time. Raden Saleh, an Arab Javanese artist born within the then-Dutch East Indies round 1811, was the primary Asian artist to be professionally educated in Europe and to be recognised by the royal courts and establishments there, Sotheby’s says. The Sotheby’s sale marks the primary time Javanese Panorama: View of Merbabu and Merapi seems at public sale after remaining in the identical European assortment for the previous 100 years. Fewer than 10 of Saleh’s late Javanese landscapes have appeared at public sale up to now three a long time. He stays an influential determine in Indonesia, and eventually 12 months’s Olympic opening ceremony in Paris, Indonesian athletes wore outfits impressed by his work.

John Singer Sargent, The Salute, Venice (1904-07)

nineteenth Century American and Western Artwork, Christie’s, New York, 23 January

Estimate: $250,000 to $350,000

A traditional watercolour scene of Venice by John Singer Sargent goes up on the market for the primary time in precisely a century, after it was final offered by Christie’s on the artist’s personal property sale. The Salute, Venice is considered one of a collection of six work by which Sargent depicted the dome of the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute. It’s the final of these watercolours that is still in personal fingers, with the remaining in institutional collections together with the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Maurits Cornelis Escher, Belvedere (1958)

Surrealist Treasures: The City S. Hirsch III Assortment, Bonhams, Los Angeles, 7-17 January

Estimate: $25,000 to $35,000

This lithograph is a characteristically phantasmagorical scene from the Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher. The phrase Belvedere is derived from the Italian for “stunning view”, however the constructing pictured within the work is a first-rate instance of Escher’s paradoxical creations that seem to defy the legal guidelines of geometry. This lithograph was as soon as within the assortment of City S. Hirsch III, a printing ink producer. Earlier than his demise earlier this 12 months, Hirsch constructed a sturdy assortment of works on paper, together with Outdated Grasp prints and Surrealist artwork.