Bonhams’s 20th and 21st Century evening sale, scheduled for Oct. 16 at the auction house’s London headquarters, will feature 15 high-profile lots, among them paintings by Monet and Renoir, a leaf drawing by Ana Mendieta, and an ovoid alabaster sculpture by Anish Kapoor.
The top two lots are Monet’s La route de Giverny (1885), showing a country road winding through the rolling hills of Giverny, a village in Normandy where Monet relocated a few years before he completed this painting en plein air, and Chiens savants, ou le carnaval des chiens (1922) by the French-Japanese artist Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita. Both have pre-sale estimates of $2 million to $2.7 million
According to Bonhams, the Foujita painting—a tableau depicting nine dogs of various breeds, two of which are mysteriously dressed in human clothes—was acquired by the family of its current owner the year it was made, at an exhibition of Japanese art organized as part of the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. It was painted about 10 years into Foujita’s time in Paris, during which he befriended artists like Modigliani, Soutine, and Picasso.
Other intriguing offerings include a monumental mixed media painting of a lead boat in rough seas by Anselm Keifer (Urim and Tumim, est. $600,000-$870,000) and a boldly-colored, abstracted portrait of the wife of a British diplomat to India by Howard Hodgkin (Mrs Acton in Delhi, est. $810,000-$1.1 million). Additional highlights are below.