Christie's Online Magazine No.221

From: Christie's - Saturday May 16, 2020 10:38 am

Christie’s

Art stories to feed the mind and soul — plus news on our updated calendar of online auctions and private sales

Picasso’s Les femmes d’Alger to launch Christie’s cutting-edge new auction platform, ONE

Ten sumptuous Impressionist paintings that made art-market history at Christie’s

What artists are doing now — four rising stars talk art and inspiration under lockdown

Sexuality, Surrealism… and how many self-portraits? A cryptic Leonor Fini masterpiece

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Editor’s picks

Painted cabinets such as this 17th-century example from Antwerp would have been displayed with their doors left open, revealing the decoration within. These small oil paintings are attributed to Hendrick van Balen I, who counted Anthony van Dyck among his pupils. The figures depicted include Cupid, Venus, Narcissus and Neptune

Estimate: £20,000-30,000
until 1 June, Online

Wassily Kandinsky was already 30 years old and a practising lawyer when he took up painting. Schwabing — Das weisse haus was painted five years later, in 1901, and shows his early fascination with colour and a desire to infuse his work with spiritual resonance. It’s a small painting: just under 13 inches — or 33 cm — wide

Estimate: $250,000-350,000
until 28 May, Online

This rare first edition of Paolo Mascagni’s Anatomia universa XLIV. 1823-1832 describes the human body with ‘an almost incredible attention to detail’ (Garrison-Morton). The Italian physician and teacher is also celebrated for having published the first definitive description of the lymphatic system in man

Estimate: £7,000-10,000
until 4 June, Online

The young Edouard Manet spent many hours copying Old Masters at the Louvre, as well as taking trips to Spain, Holland and Italy to further his painting education. He made this copy of Filippino Lippi’s Self-Portrait on a visit to Florence in 1853, when he was 21. Few of Manet’s artworks from this period survive

Estimate: €100,000-150,000
until 29 May, Online

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Les femmes d’Alger (Version ‘F’), 1955. Oil on canvas. 21 x 25 in (54 x 65 cm). Offered in ONE at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2020 // Mary Cassatt, In the Box, c. 1879 (detail). Oil on canvas. 43.7 x 62.2 cm. Private Collection // Mequitta Ahuja in her Baltimore studio. Artwork: © Mequitta Ahuja. British-based Russian artist Yelena Popova with her work, Untitled, in the background. Artwork: © Yelena Popova // Leonor Fini, Rasch, Rasch, Rasch, meine Puppen Warten, 1975 (detail). Oil on canvas. 45 x 57⅜ in (114 x 145.7 cm). Offered for private sale at Christie’s. Artwork: © Leonor Fini, DACS 2020

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