Christie's Online Magazine No.201

From: Christie's - Saturday Dec 07, 2019 11:47 am

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The story of the teenager whose Shakespeare forgeries caused an 18th-century literary scandal

The runners and riders of British sporting art, from George Stubbs to Sir Alfred Munnings

George Nakashima: the designer whose hand-made furniture expressed the ‘soul of the tree’

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Editor’s picks

Carlo Bugatti (1856-1940) was the father of sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti and car maker Ettore Bugatti. This armchair was exhibited at the first International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Arts in 1902, where Bugatti was awarded the Diploma of Honour

Estimate: €70,000-100,000
10-11 December, Paris

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) wrote these six letters in Italian to the Tuscan nobleman Bartolomeo Cini from 1843 onwards, some 25 years after the publication of her novel Frankenstein

Estimate: £10,000-15,000
11 December, London

The Dutch artist Henriette Ronner-Knip (1821-1909) specialised in painting cats and dogs in bourgeois settings. Her subjects included the lapdogs of Marie Henriette of Austria and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Estimate: £10,000-15,000
12 December, London

In the late 1870s John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) painted a number of pictures of Whitby, a fishing port in the north of England. Views such as Whitby at Night have been compared to descriptions of the town in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Estimate: £250,000-350,000
12 December, London

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Ansel Adams, California, USA, 25 March 1983. Photo: Barbara Alper/Getty Images // Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013), Untitled Fashion Study, c. 1975. Estimate: $1,000-1,500. Offered in Fashion Photo, 2-11 December 2019, Online // Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1878-1959), A Start at Newmarket, painted circa 1937 (detail). Estimate: £400,000-600,000. Offered in IN THE FIELD — An Important Private Collection of Sporting Art on 12 December 2019 at Christie’s in London. © Estate of Sir Alfred Munnings, Dedham, Essex. All rights reserved, DACS 2019 // George Nakashima. Photo: Randy Duchaine / Alamy Stock Photo

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