Christie's Online Magazine No.193

From: Christie's - Saturday Oct 12, 2019 10:26 am

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The story of John Nash, his ‘beautiful mind’ and the Nobel Prize he nearly didn’t win

‘After Ali, everyone wanted to do it’: how Warhol played the fame game with sports stars

The Pre-Raphaelite beauty, two artists and a love triangle that changed the course of British art

Meet the radical printmakers who enjoy taking great artists ‘out of their comfort zone’

Lights, colour, action: the international soccer match that inspired a de Staël masterpiece

‘We looked for objects to delight our souls’: inside The Collection of James and Marilynn Alsdorf

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Editor’s picks

In 2012, dendrochronology dated the Baltic oak panel on which Christ Crowned with Thorns was painted to around 1470 — consistent with its attribution to the workshop of Netherlandish painter Dieric Bouts

Estimate: $120,000-180,000
29 October, New York

David Hockney made this lithograph, Afternoon Swimming, in 1979. ‘Every day we would have lunch by the swimming pool, every lunch I would have a swim,’ he later recalled. ‘It’s a wonderful subject, water.’

Estimate: $70,000-100,000
22-23 October, New York

Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) designed this chair for the apartment Casa M-1 in Turin. It belonged to Cesare Minola and his wife Ada, an artist, designer and gallerist of Lucio Fontana

Estimate: £200,000-300,000
16 October, London

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) issued an edict stating that only three artists were allowed to make his portraits in bronze, paint or on carved gems. This Roman marble head was made five centuries after his death

Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000
28 October, London

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Plan your visit to Christie’s

London
View the collection of The Royal House of Savoy, which spans more than 2,000 years of art, 11-14 October

Paris
Enjoy works by Matisse, Miró, Renoir, Rodin and other greats in the preview to our Art Moderne auction, 12-18 October

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© John Nash family // Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Muhammad Ali, 1977 (detail). Estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 13 November at Christie’s in New York. © 2019 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York // Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Proserpine, 1878. Estimate: $3,000,000-5,000,000. Offered in European Art Part I on 28 October 2019 at Christie’s in New York // Artwork: © Vik Muniz/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2019 // Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955), Parc des Princes (Les grand footballeurs), 1952. Estimate: €18,000,000-25,000,000. Offered in Paris Avant-Garde on October 17 2019 at Christie’s in Paris // James and Marilynn Alsdorf, pictured in Miami in 1950. Photograph courtesy of the consignor

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