Christie's Online Magazine No.177

From: Christie's - Saturday May 11, 2019 10:32 am

Christie’s

A leading art critic plugs Jeff Koons’s stainless-steel Rabbit into 500 years of art history

A rare Apple-1 computer, the invention that launched an empire and changed our world

The golden Buddha that greeted customers at Gump’s, America’s department store for Asian art

The pioneering jazz impresario who admired, collected and then became friends with Picasso

How the Cuban artist who painted this ‘seascape’ redefined the parameters of American art

‘People think it gets easier, but it doesn’t’: Luc Tuymans on life, painting and his show in Venice

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Editor’s picks

Between 1918 and 1924 Monet painted 24 canvases featuring the Japanese footbridge over his lily pond at Giverny. Sixteen now reside in public institutions

Estimate: $12,000,000-18,000,000
13 May, New York

This superb emerald and diamond pendent necklace was owned by Catherine the Great (1729-1796), and remained in the private collection of the Tsars of Russia until the end of the 19th century

Estimate: CHF2,300,000-3,500,000
15 May, Geneva

Piet Mondrian painted this exquisite still life in circa 1901. It is offered from the collection of Princess Cecil Amelia von Fürstenberg, the scion of two prominent families in Texas

Estimate: $100,000-150,000
14 May, New York

James Rosenquist (1933-2017) is described as ‘one of the big three masters of American Pop painting’. He created Marilyn II in 1963, his breakthrough year

Estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000
15 May, New York

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Plan your visit to Christie’s

New York
View our American Art auction, including Modernist works from The Michael Scharf Family Collection, 18-21 May

Paris
Enjoy the preview of our Design sale, featuring a range of pieces by French mid-century greats, 16-21 May

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Jeff Koons (b. 1955), Rabbit, 1986. Estimate: $50,000,000-70,000,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 15 May 2019 at Christie’s in New York © Jeff Koons // Norman Granz and Pablo Picasso: Picture courtesy the Granz family © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2019 // Luc Tuymans in his studio. Photographed by Paul Rousteau // Carlos Alfonzo (1950-1991), Water Seeds, 1988-89. Estimate: $100,000-150,000. Offered in Latin American Art on 22-23 May 2019 at Christie’s in New York