Christie's Online Magazine No.206

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Full steam ahead — how European artists came to embrace the age of the train

Zona Maco, great galleries and a growing collector base — why Mexico City is booming

‘My job is to hunt for works of art’: Our Head of Private Sales on finding the missing links

Where might Vermeer have gone had he never encountered the art of Pieter de Hooch?

‘Always leave them while you’re looking good’ — a tribute to one of Christie’s great characters

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Editor’s picks

Each year Architectural Digest nominates a designer to create a backstage oasis for presenters and winners at the Oscars. Roger Thomas made this armchair for the Academy Awards Green Room in 2010, placing it on a custom paint-splattered floor. The decoration on the upholstery is hand-drawn

Estimate: $2,000-3,000
4-13 February, Online

Grelots — spherical iron sleigh bells — were a regular leitmotif in the work of René Magritte. He painted Les fleurs de l’abîme in 1928. A decade later he said, ‘I’d prefer to believe that the iron bells hanging from our fine horses’ necks grew there like poisonous plants on the edge of precipices’

Estimate: £1,200,000-1,800,000
5 February, London

After joining Tiffany & Co. in 1967 at the age of 23, Angela Cummings became part of a celebrated quartet of designers alongside Elsa Peretti, Paloma Picasso and Jean Schlumberger. She carved a niche with nature-inspired designs using unusual combinations of materials, such as this multi-gem bangle bracelet

Estimate: $8,000-12,000
5-12 February, Online

The production of hay, together with apple-picking, was one of Camille Pissarro’s favourite scenes of communal rural labour. Bucolic images such as that presented in La récolte (1880), executed in gouache on silk, led the art critic Arsène Alexandre to identify him as a ‘historian of the fields’

Estimate: £250,000-350,000
6 February, London

The New York Times’ art critic John Russell befriended Picasso’s muse, Dora Maar — currently the subject of an exhibition at Tate Modern — in the 1950s. He wrote the preface to the catalogue of her 1958 show, held at the Leicester Galleries in London, and it is likely that Maar gifted Paysage to him

Estimate: £2,000-3,000
6 February, London

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Auction calendar

Thomas Houseago (b. 1972), Untitled, 2008. Estimate: £25,000-35,000. Offered in First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online, 7-18 February 2020, Online // Augustus Egg, The Travelling Companions, 1862. Photo: Bridgeman Images // Adrien Meyer photographed by Brian W. Ferry // Diego Rivera, The Great City of Tenochtitlan (detail). From the National Palace frescoes, Mexico City. Photo: G. Dagli Orti / De Agostini Picture Library / Bridgeman Images. Artwork: © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / DACS 2020 // Attributed to Pieter de Hooch, Self-portrait, circa 1648-1649 (detail). Photo: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam; Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684), Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room, 1658. Photo: Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019 // Meredith Etherington-Smith, photographed by Karl Lagerfeld. Photo: © Karl Lagerfeld

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