Christie's Online Magazine No.211

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The Dinner Party — a fictional gathering of 10 women artists who changed history

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Editor’s picks

Florence Ada Fuller (1867-1946) was born in South Africa and went on to live in Australia, England and India. It’s thought she painted The Road to Simonstown from Muizenberg between 1892 and 1894, while convalescing after a long illness. In the foreground is the cottage of Cecil Rhodes, then Prime Minister of the Cape Colony

Estimate: £8,000-10,000
12-19 March, Online

When The New York Public Library held an exhibition of Mary Cassatt’s prints in 2013, it described her approach to printmaking as ‘audacious’. Feeding the Ducks, circa 1895, typifies her interest in women and children as subjects. It’s thought that only 13 impressions of this print exist

Estimate: £15,000-£20,000
18 March, London

The Indian Modernist Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990) has been the subject of solo retrospectives at Tate Liverpool and The Met. In her diaries she wrote of her struggle to realise ‘the maximum of the minimum’. Untitled, a work in pencil, watercolour and collage on paper, dates from the late 1960s

Estimate: $10,000-15,000
18 March, New York

This ‘Fungo’ lamp was designed by Gabriella Crespi circa 1973. The Milanese designer moved to Rome in the 1960s, where she was feted by the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Hubert de Givenchy and Gianni Versace. In 1987, however, she abandoned her exotic social life to spend two decades living in the Himalayas

Estimate: £2,000-4,000
19 March, London

Antonietta Brandeis (1848-1926) studied in Prague before moving to Venice and Florence. She is celebrated for her luminous architectural scenes of Italian cities, which included Verona, Rome and Turin. This small oil painting is titled A Street Scene with Children Under an Archway

Estimate: £3,000-5,000
19 March, London

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The Dinner Party illustration by Sabrina Percy // Charlotte Perriand in 1974. Photo: Pernette Perriand-Barsac / Adagp Images. © Adagp, Paris, 2020. Charlotte Perriand 1903-1999, Bibliothèque à plots, commande spéciale, circa 1954. Sold for €361,500 on 25 May 2016 at Christie’s in Paris. Artwork: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2020 // Alma Luxembourg, Amalia Dayan and Daniella Luxembourg. Photo: Ana Cuba // Belinda Tate with Robert Seldon Duncanson’s Heart of the Andes, 1871. Photographed in the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan. Photo: David Kasnic // Detail of an artwork by Sara Shamma. Artwork: © Sara Shamma

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