Christie's Online Magazine No.184

From: Christie's - Saturday Jun 29, 2019 10:32 am

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Meet Margaret Hamilton, the woman who wrote the software that put man on the Moon

Up close with a 3,300-year-old head of Tutankhamen, the ‘Boy King’ of ancient Egypt

Marie-Antoinette’s writing desk and a rare, jewel-like bureau — with Rothschild provenance

Who should I be looking at, and why? Nine contemporary artists worth investing in right now

A brief history of script, starting with this tablet featuring the first known writing system

Crafted in China and paid for with Spanish silver, candlesticks from the court of Philip V

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Editor’s picks

The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens by Edward Lear is one of a group of watercolours painted by the famous poet of nonsense verse during an eventful trip through Greece in 1848. Click here to read the full story

Estimate: £15,000-20,000
2 July, London

Egyptian tombs often contained representations of daily life, such as this wooden model of a boat. These funerary objects fulfilled a religious function, assuring the continuation of everyday activities in the afterlife

Estimate: £60,000-80,000
3 July, London

Pierre Reymond (1513-1584) ran a successful enamel workshop in Limoges, France, in the 16th century. By 1540 he had become one of the greatest exponents of grisaille enamels, in which shades of grey were created by adding layers of white

Estimate: £70,000-100,000
4 July, London

This refined portrait of a praying nobleman is not only one of the last autograph works by the great Netherlandish painter Hans Memling left in private hands, but also one of the artist’s earliest known paintings

Estimate: £1,500,000-2,500,000
4 July, London

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Plan your visit to Christie’s

London
Browse important scientific books by Galileo, Newton, Darwin and others from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune, 6-8 July

New York
View post-war and contemporary works from our First Open | Online auction, offering fresh art for new collectors, 11-17 July

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Margaret Hamilton, pictured in the Apollo Command Module Simulator. Courtesy MIT Museum // Genieve Figgis (b. 1972), Ladies in the Grass, 2015 (detail). Estimate: $8,000-10,000. Offered in First Open | Online 9-17 July