Christie's Online Magazine No.225

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Art stories to feed the mind and soul

Collecting Cartier clocks — our guide to some of the most beautiful timepieces ever made

From the archive: the tailor who dressed Picasso, Miró and Zao Wou-Ki in return for art

Why the prints of Hokusai, Utamaro and Hiroshige place them in the pantheon of greats

‘It’s a really exciting discovery’ — how this ewer from medieval Egypt was brought back to life

Gin? Toothpaste? An ultrasonic cleaner? Our tips for keeping your jewellery in sparkling form

Private eye #4: our specialists on Warhol, Amelia Peláez, Chinese armchairs and a Greubel Forsey

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Editor’s picks

During the 1870s John Atkinson Grimshaw established himself as a pre-eminent painter of night-time scenes, capturing the effects of moonlight on clouds and trees in works such as Thro’ the Wood. Whistler, a friend of the artist, later declared, ‘I considered myself the inventor of nocturnes, until I saw Grimmy’s moonlight pictures’

Estimate: $70,000-100,000
until 17 June, Online

This limited-edition ‘On a Summer Day’ Constance 24 with palladium hardware was created by Hermès in 2017 in collaboration with the artist Nigel Peake. The geometric patterns reflect Peake’s training as an architect, although he is equally inspired by nature. ‘Nearly everything I see has an effect upon me,’ he explains

Estimate: £8,000-10,000
until 25 June, Online

This first edition of John James Audubon’s The Quadrupeds of North America resulted from a 1,000-mile journey made across the Rockies to the Great Plains. ‘I cannot tell how long I will be absent,’ the 58-year-old artist wrote in 1843, two months before he departed, ‘but look to return loaded up with knowledge and abundant specimens’

Estimate: $120,000-180,000
until 18 June, Online

Lionello Spada (1576-1622) was so influenced by his contemporary, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, that he earned the nickname scimmia del Caravaggio — ‘Caravaggio’s ape’. He took St Jerome as his subject on several occasions. The books that surround Jerome allude to his translation of the Old and New Testaments into Latin

Estimate: $80,000-120,000
until 19 June, Online

Michel Sapone and Pablo Picasso, Villa La Californie, Cannes, 1956 (detail). © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2020. Photograph: André Villers © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2020 // Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake (Ohashi Atake no yudachi) (detail). Estimate: £20,000-30,000. Offered in From Artist to Woodblock: Japanese Prints, 11-18 June 2020, Online // Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Four Marilyns (Reversal Series), 1979-86. View Post-War & Contemporary Art currently offered for private sale at Christie’s // Amelia Peláez (1896-1968), Untitled, 1950. Price on request. View Latin American Art currently offered for private sale at Christie’s

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