London | Autumn 2025
20th & 21st Century Art returns to Bonhams this autumn with a series of auctions in London and New York. On 16 October in London, an Evening Sale is led by Claude Monet's La Route de Giverny from 1885 and Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita's Chiens savants, ou le carnaval des chiens. A Day Sale will follow on 17 October, featuring highlights by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frank Stella and others.
Explore highlights from the auctions below and find out more about key works from the sales.
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Auction Highlights
In Focus: Howard Hodgkin, Mrs Acton in Delhi
Mrs Acton in Delhi, painted by Howard Hodgkin between 1967 and 1971, depicts the wife of the British Council's representative in the city, set against a chequerboard of orange and green tiles. The painting's style blurs figurative and abstract elements and is influenced by Pop art, with the vivid colours of the Indian flag serving as the floor tiles.
The work captures Hodgkin's enduring fascination with India, a country he visited annually and found to be a source of inspiration for much of his career. This is the first time the work has come to auction.
"Everyone has a 'somewhere else' in their lives. My somewhere else is India."
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Howard Hodgkin, Mrs Acton in Delhi, 1967-1971.
Howard Hodgkin, Out of the Window, 2000.
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In Focus: Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Chiens savants, ou le carnaval des chiens
Chiens savants, ou le carnaval des chiens (Performing Dogs, or the Carnival of Dogs) (1922) by Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita is an expression of the Japanese-French master's cultural duality, demonstrating his remarkably latescent whites, alongside a fascination with Western fables and anthropomorphic animals. The rendering of individual hairs, using thin menso brushes, is reminiscent of Albrecht Durer's renowned painting Young Hare 1502; similar in execution of stroke and the result of keen observation and precision.
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10 - 17 October, open daily including weekends
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Highlights from our global 20th & 21st Century Art auctions will be on display alongside these sales, including works by Yves Tanguy, On Kawara and Wayne Thiebaud.
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