Christie's Online Magazine No.179

From: Christie's - Saturday May 25, 2019 10:31 am

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Designer Alice Temperley on the ‘magical, astounding’ qualities of historic Indian jewels

‘Write me and tell me your heart’ — Leonard Cohen’s letters to his great love and muse

Totally fresh to market, a recent Russian art discovery with a fascinating backstory

How East and West converge in Zao Wou-Ki’s monumental homage to Monet and Matisse

From the Blue Belle of Asia to the Rockefeller — 10 dazzling sapphires offered at Christie’s

A guide to Kashmir shawls — so luxurious that Napoleon gifted them to both his wives

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Atlases and sea charts from the heyday of maritime exploration — covering the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Arctic

Christie’s ‘ambassador’ in Venice on life in La Serenissima and the ‘beautiful madness’ of the Biennale

Editor’s picks

Pink diamonds acquire their hue from a rare slippage in the gem’s crystal lattice while forming in the Earth’s crust. The centre stone on this Moussaieff ring, nicknamed The Bubble Gum Pink, weighs 3.43 carats

Estimate: HK$46,800,000-65,000,000
28 May, Hong Kong

Like many of his compatriots, Paris-based Russian artist Boris Grigoriev (1886-1939) loved to paint in Brittany. This striking portrait of a mother and child, Le Pouliguen, is part of a symbolic triptych created in 1923

Estimate: £350,000-550,000
3 June, London

François-Xavier Lalanne is best known for his woolly sheep sculptures, blending classicism with invention. This Pigeon, standing 21 cm high, is made from patinated bronze and copper and opaline glass

Estimate: $20,000-30,000
4 June, New York

Somewhere between painting and sculpture, Concetto spaziale, [Teatrino], executed in 1966, is an example of Lucio Fontana’s Teatrini (‘small theatres’) series — a response to Pop art and the pioneers of space exploration

Estimate: €200,000-300,000
3 June, Paris

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Plan your visit to Christie’s

London
Enjoy Christie’s annual outdoor exhibition of 20th-century sculpture in tranquil St James’s Square, until 17 June

New York
Discover works by Kuramata, Tiffany, Bertoia and Giacometti offered in our Design auction, 31 May to 3 June

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Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen on Hydra in 1960. Photo: James Burke / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images // Zao Wou-Ki, Triptyque 1987-1988, 1987-88. Artwork: © Zao Wou-Ki, DACS 2019