Christie's Online Magazine No.198

From: Christie's - Saturday Nov 16, 2019 11:49 am

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Who painted this portrait of a 13-year-old Mozart, and what is the music he’s playing?

A primeval celebration of sunrise by the artist and mystic who worked with Stravinsky

Why ‘art is in mourning’ for ‘El Maestro’: the life and work of Mexico’s Francisco Toledo

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Editor’s picks

Norman Rockwell’s Red Head illustrated a story of the same name in the November 1940 issue of American Magazine. It captures the moment a 15-month-old orphan is first held by his adoptive mother, who has lost a baby of her own

Estimate: $600,000-800,000
20 November, New York

Demand for images of armed celestial beings was strong in Andean cities such as La Paz and Lima in the second half of the 17th century and throughout the 18th century. This angel brandishes a rifle, also known as an arquebus

Estimate: $10,000-15,000
20-21 November, New York

In the final decade of her career, dogs had an important place in Dame Elisabeth Frink’s practice, perhaps reflecting her own life surrounded by animals at Woolland House in Dorset

Estimate: £50,000-80,000
21 November, London

Yoshitomo Nara has requested that Can’t Wait ’til the Night Comes, his monumental 2012 masterpiece, appears in his upcoming survey exhibition which will debut at LACMA before travelling to Shanghai, Bilbao and Rotterdam

Estimate on request
23 November, Hong Kong

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London
Enjoy a curated selection of works from a remarkable range of artistic movements in our Important Russian Art sale, 22-24 November

Paris
View the very finest examples of furniture, sculpture and the decorative arts offered in The Exceptional Sale, 23-27 November

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Takashi Murakami (b. 1962) & Pharrell Williams (b. 1973), The Simple Things, 2008-2009. Estimate: HK$20,000,000-30,000,000. Offered in the HI-LITE Evening Sale on 23 November 2019 at Christie’s in Hong Kong. // School of Verona, attributed to Giambettino Cignaroli (1706-1770), Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Age of 13 in Verona, 1770 (detail). Estimate: €800,000-1,200,000. Offered in The Exceptional Sale on 27 November 2019 at Christie’s in Paris // Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), The Call of the Sun, 1919. Estimate: £1,500,000-2,000,000. Offered in Important Russian Art on 25 November 2019 at Christie’s in London // Francisco Toledo photograhed in 2017. Photo:Associated Press

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