Christie's Online Magazine No.189

From: Christie's - Saturday Sep 14, 2019 10:42 am

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This portrait of Princess Sophia of Hanover was painted by Gerrit van Honthorst, a court artist to her parents — Frederick V, the Winter King of Bohemia, and Queen Elizabeth — while the family were living in exile

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

Andreas Gursky manipulated this image to create his own version of the Dubai World project, an archipelago of man-made islands shaped like a map of the Earth in the Persian Gulf

Estimate: CNY2,200,000-3,500,000
21 September, Shanghai

Ed Ruscha created some of the most important artist’s books in history. This small library includes 17 of them (first or only editions, of which six are signed and numbered) as well as four exhibition catalogues

Estimate: $20,000-30,000
27 September, New York

This photograph of Abraham Lincoln is from 1864, the year he won his second term as President. It was taken by Mathew Brady, one of America’s earliest photographers

Estimate: $5,000-7,000
2 October, New York

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Shanghai
Join us to view three special sales that celebrate Shanghai’s status as an international art hub, 19-21 September

New York
Enjoy the trove of superb Ed Ruscha works amassed by architect Fred Clarke and his wife Laura Weir Clarke, 21-26 September

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Robert Buford with Kenneth Noland, Untitled, 1958-1959 and, in the background, Thomas Houseago, Star Mask, 2009 (detail). Photo: Peter Hoffman. Artworks: © Thomas Houseago; © Estate of Kenneth Noland/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2019 // Helmut Newton in Paris, 1972. Photo: © David Hurn/Magnum Photos // Alfredo Volpi. Photo: Instituto Volpi // Fidel Castro, 1964. Photo: © Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos // Liu Kuo-Sung (b. 1932), Roof of the World Series No. 5, 2013 (detail). Estimate: HK1,600,000-2,200,000. Offered in Chinese Contemporary Ink on 25 November 2019 at Christie’s in Hong Kong

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