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   Alabama-born artist Danielle Mckinney often presents figures in private moments of comfort or leisure. In Home by 8 (2021), a solitary figure floats with arms outstretched in a heart-shaped pool set in a quiet courtyard, which the title suggests is a retreat from the outside world
   
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   In this collection of 251 letterswritten between 1971 and 1988, the Surrealist Leonor Fini discusses her life and work with the art dealer and critic Castor Seibel. Her readiness to confide in him was not typical. ‘You have really won my friendship, which I very rarely give,’ she writes, underlining ‘very’ four times
   
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   The domestic still life takes on an air of mystery in the work of Ana Mercedes Hoyos. Her close-up paintings of watermelons and bananas look like imaginary landscapes; and the flowers and bowls of fruit depicted in El gran desconocido (‘the great unknown’), dating from 1985, appear otherworldly in their glowing colours and fluid forms
   
   Estimate: $40,000-60,000
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   A love of Flash Gordon comics as a child in Milan led to Nanda Vigo’s lifelong obsession with futuristic design. The mid-century taste for what she called ‘wooden furniture from Sweden’ left her cold, so she turned instead to neon, glass, fur and — as in her ‘Manhattan’ floor lamp from 1972 — highly polished metal
   
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   springfld.arsenal, Mar 9, 2024

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   So often I look at these threads and think: if I win the lottery this weekend...

    

   moreotherstuff, Mar 9, 2024

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