Invaluable

Raymond Han painted his partner Paul Kellogg for 60 years. Han was a Korean-American painter, while Kellogg became General Director of New York City Opera. Their partnership, founded in art, lasted six decades. Portrait of Paul is coming to auction: invaluable.com/auction-lot/r…

In 1985, Alfredo Jaar spent weeks at Serra Pelada - an open-pit gold mine in Brazil where 80,000 men dug by hand for gold, carrying earth on their backs up mud slopes. Gold in the Morning, published for Documenta in 2002, is coming to auction: ow.ly/iffZ5100iyb

In 1946, Picasso visited a pottery workshop in Vallauris in the south of France and made a few pieces from clay. This pitcher was made in 1954 and dated in Picasso's hand and it's coming to auction on Invaluable in Freeman’s Oct 27: ow.ly/t5Cr5100ih5

Criss Canning has painted from the gardens and landscapes around her 1860s farmhouse near Ballarat for over five decades. Blue, 1998, is coming to auction on Invaluable on October 26: ow.ly/5rin5100i1m

View into Infinity is the fullest expression of Ferdinand Hodler’s theory of Parallelism. This compositional study is a work in progress for finished paintings that are in the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Kunsthaus Zürich. Coming to auction: ow.ly/l2NB51003ZK

“Gruau created a new ideal of feminine beauty, one that looked to the past and was at the same time inescapably modern,” wrote David Downton of René Gruau. This ink and gouache drawing on torn card is coming to auction on Invaluable on Oct 23. Bid at: ow.ly/9fzk5100hG5

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In 1890, Mary Cassatt attended a major exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints opened in Paris and spent the following winter teaching herself to emulate Japanese printmakers. This print, Maternal Caress was made that winter. Place your bids at: ow.ly/qm8h50ZXX7B

“Suitcase of memories” - the name of this auction - is a line is from the Cyndi Lauper 1984 song, Time After Time. 40 years of fashion, stage costumes and accessories from Lauper's estate are coming to auction on Invaluable in Bonhams' 22 October sale: ow.ly/CMXS50ZXWcX

Mary Fedden was the first female tutor at the Painting School at the Royal College of Art. Among her students were David Hockney and Patrick Caulfield. Her painting, Iceland Poppies in a Vase, is coming to auction on October 21. Place your bids at: ow.ly/apW250ZXVVg

Staffordshire solid agate: the marbling runs through the entire body of the clay, not just the surface. These two pieces from the 1740s are coming to auction on Invaluable in Bonhams' 20 October sale. Place your bids at: ow.ly/XU1b50ZXISt

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First called the Viking Chair - for its longship curves. Renamed the Harp Chair for its woven rope strings. Designed by Jørgen Høvelskov in 1963, at the peak of the golden age of Danish furniture. Coming to auction on 14 October: ow.ly/MKb050ZVVIv

Raymond Cauchetier taught himself photography while serving with the French Air Force in the early 1950s. He later became the set photographer of the French New Wave. 218 lots from his personal collection are coming to auction on Invaluable on 12 Oct: ow.ly/qqvF50ZVThP

Carlo Corsi trained as an engineer before abandoning his degree for painting. In 1907 he travelled to the Netherlands to study Vermeer - specifically for the light. The impact is particularly visible in La Vetrata (The Stained Glass Window). Bid at: ow.ly/ImYm50ZVM4W

Minotaure: the complete run of 13 issues in original print. Cover commissions from Picasso, Duchamp, Miró, Dalí, Matisse, Magritte, Ernst, and Rivera. Contributors inside: Breton, Éluard, Le Corbusier, Tzara, Kandinsky, Giacometti, Man Ray. Bid now! ow.ly/3lSn50ZVLmh

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Jun Kaneko moved to LA from Japan, aged 21. He had originally trained as a painter but when he encountered the sculptor Peter Voulkos, he said: "it was impossible not to be interested in ceramics." This Dango - "rounded form" - is coming to auction: ow.ly/QPuh50ZTceY

Two authorized posthumous silver gelatine prints, produced in 1991, including one of Man Ray's most celebrated photographs, Larmes, are coming to auction on Invaluable in the Kiefer Buch- und Kunstauktionen October 8 sale. Bid at: ow.ly/HgLH50ZTbH9

Louis Icart was one of the defining visual voices of Art Deco with colour etchings of glamorous, self-possessed women that captured the spirit of 1920s Paris. Moquerie (Mockery) is coming to auction on Invaluable in John Moran Auctioneers' October 6 sale. Bid at: