Christie's Online Magazine No.208

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Editor’s picks

In Chinese culture the crane embodies longevity and peace. These cloisonné enamel birds, dating to the late 19th/early 20th century, stand 42 inches (106.5 cm) high. Each holds a prunus branch and a lotus leaf, symbolising purity, in its beak

Estimate £2,000-3,000
13-20 February, Online

Cartier produced this unusual 18k gold reversible watch in the 1980s. It combines the pivoting case feature found on a Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso with Cartier’s own signature ‘Tank’ style, and comes with a rare Cartier Certificate of Authenticity

Estimate: $8,000-12,000
25 February-10 March, Online

Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) studied medicine before deciding at the age of 21 to become a painter. He would later become known as the ‘Grandfather of Op Art’. CTA 102, produced in 1966, is his first major print work based on the play of optical illusion and space

Estimate: $4,000-6,000
28 February-6 March, Online

The source of Richard Hamilton’s 1967 screenprint of Bing Crosby is a movie still from White Christmas, which he found in a Paramount Pictures press pack. Other versions of the print with different colour schemes are in the collections of Tate, MoMA and the Met

Estimate: $25,000-35,000
28 February-6 March, Online

Jasper Johns’ Flag (Moratorium) was published in 1969 by the Committee Against the War in Vietnam. The white dot in the centre might represent a bullet hole — focusing on it for 60 seconds, and then looking away at a blank wall, conjures an illusion of the flag in red, white and blue

Estimate: $18,000-25,000
4 March, New York

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Kiran Nadar at home in New Delhi with Raja Ravi Varma, Radha in the Moonlight, 1890. Photograph by Kalpesh Lathigra // Alma Thomas (1891-1978), Flash of Spring, painted in 1968. Estimate: $450,000-650,000; Derek Fordjour (b. 1974), No. 93, 2018. Estimate: $40,000-60,000. Both offered in Post-War to Present on 5 March at Christie’s in New York // Robert Indiana (1928-2018), AMOR, conceived in 1998 and executed in 2006. Estimate: $650,000-850,000. Offered in Post-War to Prresent on 5 March at Christie’s in New York // Werner Berges (1941-2017), Fahne (Flag), 1971 (detail). Estimate: $2,000-3,000. Offered in Domberger: 65 years of Screen Printing, 28 February – 6 March, online // Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Jon Gould and Andy Warhol, executed circa 1982. Photograph: © 2020 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by DACS, London

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