Le chat, $12m

The auction house expects to fetch more than $12 million (US) for this Giacometti sculpture of a cat, which has been in the hands of a private collector for the past two generations.

Le Chat will go on public display at Sotheby's in Moscow on April 1-2, in London on April 22-25 and in New York on May 1-5.

It will be offered at Sotheby's evening sale of impressionist and modern art in New York on May 5.