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Blow Up, Untitled 19 (detail) (2007), Ori Gersht. Ben Brown Fine Arts, around $55,000

Pick of the fair: Ben Brown Fine Arts

Ori Gersht meticulously recreated a Fantin-Latour, flash froze it and then blew it up, in order to capture a moment of destruction

14 March 2017
Male ancestor figure (detail; c. 1790), Sepik River region, New Guinea. Bernard de Grunne, around €1m

Pick of the fair: Bernard de Grunne

Large Sawos totemic figures such as this were hung on cult houses and dwellings to represent powerful ancestral forces

13 March 2017
Doll's House (1690–1710), The Netherlands and China. John Endlich Antiquairs, €1.75m

Pick of the fair: John Endlich Antiquairs

This rare example of a Dutch doll's house contains almost 200 unique silver miniatures and Chinese porcelain dated around 1700

13 March 2017
Costume design for Turandot (detail) (1928), Anatoly Petrytsky. James Butterwick, €75,000

Pick of the fair: James Butterwick

Ukrainian avant-garde artist Anatoly Petritsky, designed various productions in Kharkov in the 1920s, including Puccini’s Turandot

12 March 2017
Mu Tamagawa (The Six Jewel Rivers), Kinuta Tamagawa (detail) (c. 1795–96), Kitagawa Utamaro. Galerie Tanakaya, price on application

Pick of the fair: Galerie Tanakaya

Representations of and allusions to the six rivers and their associated classical poems were popular among Edo printmakers in Japan

12 March 2017
Washing Day: Women washing linen by the ramparts of Christianshavn, Copenhagen (c. 1660), Wolfgang Heimbach. Rafael Valls, price on request

Pick of the fair: Rafael Valls

Wolfgang Heimbach, once a court painter to Frederick III, captures the rich incidental detail of this rustic laundry scene

11 March 2017
Two music-making putti with a winged putto (c. 1520–30), Alonso Berruguete. Colnaghi, around €1.5m–€2m

Pick of the fair: Colnaghi

These 16th-century alabaster putti have been attributed to one the greatest Spanish Renaissance sculptors, Alonso Berruguete

11 March 2017
Woman sitting half-dressed beside a stove (detail) (1658), Rembrandt van Rijn. David Tunick Inc., price on application

Pick of the fair: David Tunick Inc.

This etching of a woman beside a stove, part of a group made in the 1650s, may be Rembrandt’s finest print of a nude

10 March 2017
Egyptian arm tattoo (1341–1325 BC), sandstone with traces of polychromy. Rupert Wace Ancient Art, €120,000

Pick of the fair: Rupert Wace Ancient Art

This carving was part of a colossal figure carved with the likeness of King Amenhotep IV that once adorned an 18th Dynasty temple

10 March 2017
Chagan Sambhar-a (late 17th–early 18th century), Mongolia. School of Zanabazar. Rossi & Rossi, $1.5m

Pick of the fair: Rossi & Rossi

This Mongolian bronze features a benevolent Buddhist divinity embracing his consort symbolising the merging of wisdom and compassion

9 March 2017

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