This sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings, drawings and watercolours will feature a striking representation of a vase of flowers by Moise Kisling, painted in 1951 shortly before his death (est. $180,000-220,000; £92,900-113,500).

Other than in Picasso's exploration of the theme, the Crucifixion did not figure prominently in twentieth-century painting.

I lunched at Rick Stewart-Jones's Cafe and sat next to Ethel Walker who talked about twentieth-century painting.

Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition 'Europe and America: nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection'.

An excellent collection of British and European twentieth-century painting and sculpture.

(This show) is devoted to an artist whose following is only beginning to emerge and whose true importance for twentieth-century painting seems to us to be no more than foreshadowed.

The sprawling retrospective of his work currently takes up the two vast floors normally devoted by the museum to setting forth the story of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting and sculpture.

Guy Loudmer's much awaited sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings at Drouot on 23 November meanwhile took a dramatic turn when none of its eight Gericault oil paintings managed to sell.

Notably, he is heralded for creating abstract paintings that bear no pictorial illusions or psychological or metaphysical references in twentieth-century painting.

Two associated events are a separate section devoted to prints 'Edition '92' and an exhibition entitled 'Transform'on the relationship between twentieth-century painting and sculpture.