Christie's Online Magazine No.196

From: Christie's - Saturday Nov 02, 2019 11:37 am

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Not just a pretty face: why this watch is primed to take its place among the all-time top 10

Living next door to de Kooning: the documentary, the friendship, the early drawings

Kim Whan-Ki: the pioneer of Korean abstract painting whose art proved to be his downfall

Sanyu’s Five Nudes: a ‘true peak’ in the career of the artist they called ‘the Chinese Matisse’

The Wyeth dynasty: three generations of artists who set the standard for American realism

‘He looked, listened, and did the opposite of what he’d learnt’: Picasso and his printmakers

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Editor’s picks

This rare and complete egg was laid by an elephant bird — the largest bird to ever walk the Earth, which became extinct about 400 years ago. Its biggest eggs would have weighed around 10kg, with a volume 160 times larger than a chicken egg

Estimate: £30,000-50,000
31 October-7 November, online

Although Matisse’s cut-outs are associated with the last years of his career, he first experimented with the medium in 1919. Losange dates from 1946-47, five years after an operation for abdominal cancer that left him struggling with the physical demands of painting

Estimate: $500,000-800,000
12 November, New York

This late-18th-century German cherrywood cabinet — which until recently was believed to have been destroyed during the Second World War — opens to reveal 48 wax ‘genre’ figures, including ‘the compassionate mother’ and ‘the frugal peasant’

Estimate: £40,000-60,000
13 November, London

Six years ago Christie’s sold a 2013 portrait of Leonardo DiCaprio by Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965) for more than $1 million, with the proceeds benefiting his wildlife charity. This Leonardo, also by Peyton, was painted in 1998, a year after DiCaprio starred in Titanic

Estimate: $350,000-550,000
14 November, New York

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Plan your visit to Christie’s

New York
See a collection of works of art inspired by wildlife and nature at the preview of La Ménagerie, 2-10 November

London
What is the future of digital art and how can it be collected? Find out on Christie’s Digital Art course, 21-22 November

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Willem de Kooning, East Hampton, 1953 (detail). Photo: Tony Vaccaro / Getty Images // Kim Whan-Ki in his New York studio in 1972. Photo and artworks: © Whan-Ki Foundation-Whan-Ki Museum // Sanyu (1895-1966), Five Nudes, 1950s. Estimate: HKD 250-550 million. Offered on 23 November in 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in Hong Kong // Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945), On the Wings of the Evening, 1912 (detail). Estimate: $120,000-180,000. Offered in American Art on 20 November 2019 at Christie’s in New York // Picasso inspecting an impression of La Minotauromachie with the art dealer and publisher Henri Matarasso, La Californie, Cannes 1961. Photo: Edward Quinn. © edwardquinn.com. Artworks: © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2019

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