Christie's Online Magazine No.212

From: Christie's - Saturday Mar 14, 2020 12:52 pm

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The restless generation: the photographers who grappled with Japan’s post-war legacy

Artemisia Gentileschi and the theatre of revenge — the harrowing truth behind her art

Three recently discovered portraits by the French artist who taught Louis XIII to draw

From Royal and Tribal to Village and Town: a guide to Oriental rugs and carpets

California drinkin’ — the West Coast wines every serious collector wants in their cellar

What this ‘grand tradition’ interior designer would take home from our Collector sale

Editor’s picks

Jane Avril was a dancer at the Moulin Rouge whose unique style was likened to an ‘orchid in a frenzy’. It earned her the nickname La Mélinite, which was a type of explosive. Her friend Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created many famous images of her, including this lithograph from 1899, two years before his death

Estimate: £40,000-60,000
18 March, London

Rameshwar Broota confronted a personal sense of despair through humour and satire. In his own words, The Trial (1978) ‘depicts a poor person who is trained like an athlete performing tricks, but there is nobody to see him... That is how artists keep performing... they don’t get any recognition’

Estimate: $100,000-150,000
18 March, New York

The critic Richard Bartholomew described Indian modernist V.S. Gaitonde (1924-2001) as ‘a quiet man and a painter of the quiet reaches of the imagination’. Untitled was executed in 1983, and is a brilliant example of the artist’s precise handling of light, shadow, form and space

Estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000
18 March, New York

Winston Churchill is said to have been an aficionado of Dunhill’s aquarium lighters. Each and every one of them was uniquely hand-made, carved (using dental tools), painted and assembled by one man — Ben Shillingford. No one could match Shillingford’s artistry, and production ceased when he retired at the end of the 1950s

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

François Boucher used his Study of Crocodile among Reeds for his 1739 work Crocodile Hunt, one of a series of nine exotic hunt scenes commissioned from various artists by Louis XV for Versailles. The paintings, also featuring leopard, bear, tiger and ostrich, now hang in the Museum of Picardy in Amiens

Estimate: €10,000-15,000
25 March, Paris

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Eikoh Hosoe (b. 1933), Man and Woman #12, 1960. Estimate: $6,000-8,000. Offered in Photographs on 31 March 2020 at Christie’s in New York // (Detail) Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, about 1613-14. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence © Gabinetto fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi