Christie's Online Magazine No.195

From: Christie's - Saturday Oct 26, 2019 10:36 am

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Works by Thiebaud, Diebenkorn and Wyeth from the collection of Walt Disney’s eldest daughter

Crowning glories: 10 vintage Rolex watches every serious collector needs to own

A collecting voyage spanning Captain Cook, the China Trade and Gauguin in Tahiti

Why this Chinese bell chimed with one of the 20th century’s greatest collectors

Marching boldly into a brave new world: Umberto Boccioni’s Futurist masterpiece

Andrew Graham-Dixon unravels the mystery of American Gothic — ‘the USA’s Mona Lisa’

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Editor’s picks

The Soul of the Rose by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) belongs to a series of single-figure images the artist rendered in the early 1900s, all featuring dark- or red-haired models

Estimate: $3,000,000-5,000,000
28 October, New York

This is John Webber’s slightly smaller version of Portrait of Captain James Cook, which he painted at the Cape of Good Hope in late 1776. The original hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London

Estimate: £100,000-150,000
29 October, London

Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof (b. 1957) is known as ‘America’s Fabergé’. This extraordinary clock, based on the Delacorte Clock in the Central Park Zoo in New York, is one of his most ambitious and costly commissions

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

This previously unknown Mbeté reliquary figure from Gabon has a hollowed torso which served as a receptacle for the relics of important ancestors. It was formerly owned by Charles Ratton and Pierre Matisse

Estimate: €250,000-400,000
30 October, Paris

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Wayne Thiebaud, Mickey Mouse, 1988. Estimate: $400,000-600,000. Offered in the Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Sale on 14 November at Christie’s New York. Artwork © Wayne Thiebaud/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2019 // Grant Wood (1891-1942), American Gothic, 1930 (detail). The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA / Friends of American Art Collection / Bridgeman Images