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Renoir and Love Also showing<\/p>\n The 90s: Art and Fashion Aphrodite: The Making of a Goddess Mike Nelson: Double Negative (The Clown) Painting the French Riviera Image of the weekDavid Hockney, Dog Painting 17, 1995. Photograph: David Hockney\/Christie\u2019s Images Ltd. 2026<\/p>\n How much is that doggy in the window? Well, if it\u2019s a rare painting of Hockney\u2019s adored dachshund Stanley, you\u2019re looking at an estimated \u00a31.5m-\u00a32.5m. The painting will be sold at auction on 14 October during the Frieze art fair, but anyone can see it for free at Christie\u2019s in London from Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n What we learned<\/p>\n Some art seems better when it\u2019s broken<\/a><\/p>\n Balraj Khanna paints biomorphic blobs, candy-coloured galaxies and cosmic spectacle<\/a><\/p>\n Celeb set designer Es Devlin\u2019s studio has a lot going on<\/a><\/p>\n A row has erupted over a Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun with dark skin<\/a><\/p>\n A Van Gogh is up for grabs, alongside a C\u00e9zanne and a Monet as an \u2018almost mythical\u2019 private collection goes on sale<\/a><\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Art Weekly<\/p>\n Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Masterpiece of the week<\/p>\n F\u00eate Galante by Jean-Baptiste Pater, probably about 1721-5<\/p>\n Photograph: \u00a9 The National Gallery, London<\/p>\n People are picnicking on the grass, in a woody parkland that\u2019s given extra mystery by classical sculptures and urns, even though a view through the trees reveals ordinary rural buildings rather than a great house. This is the ambiguous pleasure-world of the f\u00eate galante, a genre of painting invented by Pater\u2019s teacher Antoine Watteau, in which lovers dance and talk and sometimes go off together into the woods, in an enigmatic, timeless and softly brushed fantasy realm. Pater is nothing like as poetic as Watteau, but still, you get the idea in this typical example of his work: women in silk dresses that catch the light and men in archaic, Renaissance-style costumes have escaped the cares of the city and the everyday to gather and celebrate love in this clearing under the gentle, feathery trees. Renoir revives this suggestive yet delicate genre in the much more material and solid setting of 19th-century Paris in his impressionist paintings. Sign up to the Art Weekly newsletter<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Get in touch<\/p>\n
Joyful and sumptuous, yet realist and raw, Renoir\u2019s impressionist paintings glow in this immaculate exhibition.
National Gallery, London, from 3 October until 31 January<\/a><\/p>\n
The fin de siecle decade gets a fresh look that puts fashion alongside art to take us back to when Britannia thought it was cool.
Tate Britain, London, from 8 October until 14 February<\/a><\/p>\n
The ancient god of love and desire, often known by her Latin name Venus, returns on her shell in the art of Botticelli, Michelangelo Pistoletto and more.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, from 8 October until 11 April<\/a><\/p>\n
Another soul-harrowing installation by the sculptor of urban labyrinths.
Modern Art Oxford, from 3 October until 11 April<\/a><\/p>\n
There are masterpieces here by C\u00e9zanne, Picasso and Matisse, but it\u2019s a weary slog and the beach is miles away.
Royal Academy, London, until 31 January<\/a><\/p>\n
National Gallery, London<\/a><\/p>\n