Contemporary artists love to collect sketches and studies by their predecessors and they aren’t alone, writes Katie Armstrong Jean-Antoine Watteau, “A Man Playing the Guitar,” which will be auctioned in “Master Drawings from the Collection of Diane A. Nixon,” Sotheby’s New York, February 4, 2026. Photograph: Sotheby’s Old Master drawings—the sketches, studies, even doodles of … Continue reading Collecting Focus: Rare Drawings