| New York  Two hundred extraordinarily high-quality anatomical artworks from the Collection of Dr Dean Edell will be offered for sale at Christie’s on 5 October. Highlights include Andreas Vesalius’ De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (1543) (est. $200,000–$300,000) and a rare collection of woodcuts by Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer (est. $20,000–$30,000, pictured).
Moscow Christie’s will open an office in Moscow by the end of 2007. Hot on the heels of Sotheby’s, which set up in Moscow in May, Christie’s announced that its office will concentrate on cultivating clients and organising private sales, but will not hold auctions. According to Forbes magazine, Russia now has more billionaires than any country except America and Germany. Christie’s sales of Russian art worldwide increased more than sevenfold between 2000 and 2006. Paris Sotheby’s has appointed Guillaume Cerutti as president-director general of Sotheby’s France. Cerutti, who was managing director of the Pompidou Centre from 1996 to 2001 and later chief of staff to the French Minister of Culture, has more recently headed the Department of Consumer and Competitive Affairs at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. Hong Kong Sotheby’s will hold a sale of masterpieces of Chinese painting on 6 October, with 46 lots expected to fetch HK$40m (€3.8m). Qi Baishi’s much-published Rock and the Rising Sun (1934, pictured) is estimated at HK$1.2m–HK$1.5m, and Xu Beihong’s patriotic Crouching Lion (1935) is estimated at HK$1.8m–HK$2.5m. |  | London Classic maritime paintings are to be had at Bonham’s Marine Sale on 11 September. Frank Henry Mason’s A Windjammer Amidst Smaller Shipping off Scarborough (est. €7,400– €10,000) and Derek George Montague Gardner’s Nelson’s ‘Agamemnon’, 64 Guns, with ‘Ca Ira’, 80 Guns, in Tow of ‘Vestale’, 36 Guns, 13th March 1795 (est. €12,000–€18,000, pictured) are on offer. |  | www.sothebys.com
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