Christie's Online Magazine No.188

From: Christie's - Saturday Sep 07, 2019 10:35 am

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Editor’s picks

In ancient Chinese culture, lotus scrolls represented purity while five-clawed dragons symbolised imperial power. This rare globular vase — or tianqiuping — was once owned by Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago’s richest man

Estimate: $300,000-500,000
12 September, New York

Stik’s Rough Sleeper (maquette) inspired a subsequent edition of smaller, spray-painted wooden cut-outs, released in an ‘art drop’ around the streets of London’s Brick Lane and Mayfair in 2010

Estimate: £30,000-50,000
18 September, London

This tapestry originally formed part of a set of seven panels illustrating the story of Hero and Leander. It hung in Hovingham Hall, an 18th-century Palladian-style country house that was the childhood home of HRH the Duchess of Kent

Estimate: £15,000-25,000
19 September, London

Vietnamese artist Nguyen Trung painted Young Girl in the Summer in 2007. Both the lotus flower and the fish in her hands are symbolic of his homeland’s natural environment

Estimate: CNY 80,000-120,000
21 September, Shanghai

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Plan your visit to Christie’s

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Sign up for our six-week online course, Matisse to Magritte: Markets and Movements in Modern European Painting, starting 17 September

London
View objects from British and European royal families in our Visions of Collecting sale, 14-18 September

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Carl Andre (b. 1935), Copper-Steel Alloy Square, executed in 1969. Estimate: £1,200,000-1,800,000. Artwork: © Carl Andre/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2019 // Dan Flavin (1933-1996), The Diagonal of May 25, 1963, executed in 1963. Estimate: £500,000-700,000. Artwork: © Dan Flavin, DACS 2019. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 4 October at Christie’s in London // Haim Steinbach (b. 1944), delightfully reproduced, executed in 1986. Estimate: £18,000-25,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction on 5 October at Christie’s in London. Artwork: © 2019, Haim Steinbach. Photo: © Philippe D. Photography. // Barbara Kruger (b. 1945), Untitled (Do You Feel Comfortable Losing?), 2006. Estimate: £18,000-25,000. Offered in Prints & Multiples on 18 September 2019 at Christie’s in London // Banksy artwork, created in May 2008. Photo: Courtesy of Pest Control Office // Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, photographed in Paris in 1927. Photo: Boris Lipnitzki / Roger-Viollet / TopFoto

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