Christie's Online Magazine No.204

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Lucian Freud’s postcards to his first girlfriend reveal a voracious spirit on the cusp of adulthood

Sex and death in 1918 Berlin: a rare survivor from an important series by George Grosz

A Futurist in London, and how he dazzled and dismayed with his radical visions of modern life

10 things to know about Tschabalala Self, the young star reinventing figurative art

Why Van Eyck: An Optical Illusion is most definitely a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ exhibition

Has there ever been a more powerful advocate for American art than Daniel Terra?

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Editor’s picks

William Roberts (1895-1980) called himself an ‘English Cubist’. He was also an official war artist. The Wiring Party, from circa 1919, depicts the dangerous missions undertaken to build and repair barbed wire defences in no-man’s-land

Estimate: £100,000-150,000
21 January, London

Daniel Reynolds is a London-based sculptor and ceramicist whose work has recently been exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. These 12 onion-form vases in porcelain reflect his interest in ample forms, simple colours and organic materials

Estimate: £2,000-3,000
22-29 January, Online

‘Life is at its most uninhibited here,’ said Joan Eardley of the slums of Glasgow. Boy with a Fringe: Sandy, 1953, is an example of her uncompromising realism. Ten years later Eardley died of breast cancer, aged just 42

Estimate: £30,000-50,000
23 January, London

The scene on this bottle vase, dating to circa 1738, was one of four designs created by Cornelis Pronk for the Dutch East India Company. Known as ‘The Doctors Visiting the Emperor’, its great detail — including the figures right and centre each holding a fish — would have made it expensive to produce

Estimate: $3,000-5,000
23 January, New York

George Grey Barnard’s interest in Abraham Lincoln stemmed from a commission to create an 11ft statue of the 16th president for Lytle Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1917. A similar, unbearded work to this marble bust is held by The Met

Estimate: $5,000-8,000
24 January, New York

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Auction calendar

Lucian Freud, Lansdowne Terrace, Bloomsbury, c. 1940. Private Collection. © The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images // George Grosz (1893-1959), Gefährliche Straße, painted in July 1918. Estimate: £4,500,000-6,500,000. Offered in the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 5 February 2020 at Christie’s in London // Gino Severini photographed at the Marlborough Gallery, London, 1913. Photo: Ullstein Bild / Getty Images. Artwork: © Gino Severini, DACS 2020 // From left: Tschabalala Self, Love to Saartjie, 2015. Estimate: £50,000-70,000; Colored 1, 2015. Estimate: £25,000-35,000; Spare Moment, 2015. Estimate: £80,000-120,000. All offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 12 February 2020 at Christie’s in London // (Detail) Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441), The Annunciation, circa 1434-1436. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection; Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441), Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon, circa 1428−1430. Muzeul National Brukenthal, Sibiu (Romania) // Daniel J. Terra, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, circa 1980, with Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky, 1861. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.27

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