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This week · 55 stories · 8 auctions (€78.8M aggregate) · 26 exhibitions opening · most-active city: London

Sale highlight: at Bonhams — £169,250

Thaddaeus Ropac has formed a collaboration with the newly established Leoncillo Foundation to represent sculptor Leoncillo Leonardi (1915–1968). The first project is an exhibition opening in…

Why it matters
Ropac’s tie-up with the new Leoncillo Foundation gives the gallery direct control over an estate that has seen almost no secondary-market supply since 1968.

via Thaddaeus Ropac · Exhibition

Bonhams will offer Cami Kapisinda (At the Mosque Door) by Osman Hamdi Bey in its 19th Century Paintings and British Impressionist Art sale at New Bond Street in London. The painting, acquired…

Why it matters
The £2-3 million estimate on Osman Hamdi Bey’s 1895 canvas at Bonhams New Bond Street tests whether Orientalist pictures can hold that level outside the major houses’ evening sales.

via Bonhams · Auction Result

On June 18, 2026, Giuseppe Penone is collaborating with the 69th Festival dei Due Mondi to present the thirty-foot-tall cast bronze sculpture Le foglie delle radici (The Leaves of Roots) (2011) at…

Why it matters
Penone’s thirty-foot bronze at Spoleto provides a public viewing of a Gagosian-scale outdoor piece before it moves into a private or institutional collection.

via Gagosian · Exhibition

Arthur Jafa is a video artist and cinematographer known for his complex, rhythmic film essays that examine the nuances of Black American identity and culture through the appropriation of archival media.

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