Christie's Online Magazine No.185

From: Christie's - Saturday Jul 06, 2019 10:34 am

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Exploring the ‘wild untamed aspects of the human psyche’ with sculptor Dylan Lewis

The exhibitions, the biography, the market: why 2019 is set to be ‘The Year of Lucian Freud’

The collaborative spirit that is fuelling Philadelphia’s remarkable artistic renaissance

Street life — the photographers who created an art form out of New York’s urban theatre

Andrew Graham-Dixon on why Sicily’s Monreale cathedral is a ‘lesson for our times’

Making headlines: Meet Eva Dichand, contemporary art collector and media magnate

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Silvia Cubiñá, executive director of the Bass Museum in Miami, on curation, innovation and renovation

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Editor’s picks

‘Robert shot us in free fall,’ said Cindy Sherman of Robert Longo’s iconic ‘Men in the Cities’ series, which saw the New York artist photograph friends on the roof of his apartment before turning the images into photo-realistic drawings

Estimate: $40,000-60,000
9-16 July, Online

This terrestrial map of China was originally made circa 1190 by the polymath Huang Shang for the Emperor Ningzong. This copy is possibly the oldest surviving Chinese printed map of its kind. It is offered with its companion star map

Estimate: £400,000-600,000
10 July, London

Unseen in public since 1926, this is a full-scale preparatory study for the finished version of J.W. Waterhouse’s Phyllis and Demophoön, which was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1907

Estimate: £150,000-250,000
11 July, London

In May 1969, Apollo 10 reached a speed of 24,791 nautical miles per hour on its return flight to Earth, making this USA flag, which was on board, the fastest flown flag in history

Estimate: $25,000-35,000
18 July, New York

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Plan your visit to Christie’s

London
Enjoy seven works by Sir Alfred Munnings in our Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art sale, 6-10 July

New York
View extraordinary artefacts from our One Giant Leap: Celebrating Space Exploration 50 Years after Apollo 11 auction, 11-17 July

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This will be our last edition before the summer break. We’ll be back in late August

Dylan Lewis. Artwork © Pardus Fine Art CC // David Dawson, Working at Night, 2005. Private Collection. Bridgeman Images // Amy Sherald (b. 1973), Untitled, 2019. Photo: Steve Weinik // Louis Faurer (1916-2001), Broadway Convertible, New York City, 1950. Estimate: $3,000-5,000. Offered in Photographs: New York, New York on 16-24 July, Online. Artwork © 2019 Estate of Louis Faurer // A view towards the altar at Monreale cathedral, Sicily. Photo: Antonino Bartuccio/4Corners // Eva Dichand in her apartment. Artworks: Heimo Zobernig, Untitled, 2016. © Heimo Zobernig, DACS 2019. Miriam Cahn, HÄNDE HOCH!, 2014 (detail) © Miriam Cahn. Photograph by Mattia Balsamini

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