Christie's Online Magazine No.190

From: Christie's - Saturday Sep 21, 2019 10:33 am

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Powerful, contradictory, moving: the critic’s verdict on a group of Richter paintings from the 1980s

‘Just Marilyn, me and the camera’: the inside story of the star’s most intimate photo shoot

Don’t let your children see this — a scaled-down ‘toy’ Ferrari with a top speed of 55 mph

Body of work: an important early Gormley, and the curator’s take on his new London show

At home with Lee Bouvier Radziwill — two friends recall her impeccable style and taste

Perfection versus chaos — journeys into material and form with sculptor Jonathan Prince

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Editor’s picks

In the mid-1960s, Color Field artist Kenneth Noland helped to develop a stain technique that allowed the paint to seep into the unprimed canvas. As a result Untitled (1965) appears as fresh as the day it was painted

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

Painted in 1952, Nicolas de Staël’s Nature Morte au Fond Jaune (Still Life with Yellow Background) exemplifies his career-long quest to synthesize abstraction and figuration. It was formerly in the collection of E.J. Power, a pioneering British collector of contemporary art

Estimate: £700,000-1,000,000
1 October, London

In 1941, From the Radio Tower, Berlin, 1928 by László Moholy-Nagy was chosen by co-curators Beaumont Newhall and Ansel Adams for the inaugural exhibition of MoMA’s Department of Photographs

Estimate: $200,000-300,000
2 October, New York

On display for many years in the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, Anselm Kiefer’s Le Dormeur du val (The Sleeper in the Valley) is one of two works by the artist being sold to benefit the University of Ghent’s Vandenhove Centre for Architecture and Art

Estimate: £1,000,000-1,500,000
4 October, London

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Adrian Searle with Gerhard Richter’s Abstraktes Bild, painted in 1984. Estimate: £6,500,000-9,500,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 4 October at Christie’s in London. Artwork: © Gerhard Richter 2019 (0212) // Douglas Kirkland, Marilyn (Hugging Pillow), 1961 (detail). Offered in The Exceptional Sale on 29 October at Christie’s New York // Antony Gormley, Growth, 1987. Estimate: £500,000-700,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 4 October 2019 at Christie’s in London; portrait of Antony Gormley, courtesy Stephen White