Christie's Online Magazine No.228

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Art stories to feed the mind and soul

‘Welcome to the new theatre’: the four conductors of ONE on making auctioneering history

From Cézanne to Cannes: the painters and places that put the French Riviera on the art map

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‘When I have put all I can into it and it really breathes, I stop’: Brice Marden’s Complements

Meet the dynamic New York gallerist championing forgotten artists — and thriving on it

How this painting emerged from Sanyu’s ‘golden period of creativity’ in mid-century Paris

Discover the artist described as ‘connecting the dots from Henri Matisse to David Hockney’

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Editor’s picks

Christie’s Magazine has been issued in a digital format for the first time. The July issue is dedicated to ‘The Female Century’. Click here to enjoy 260 pages of outstanding female artists, collectors, gallerists and curators who have helped shape today’s art world, together with July’s auction highlights

Free to Christie’s subscribers throughout July and August

The largest of all Dürer’s engravings, Saint Eustace has long been regarded as one of his finest. The greyhounds in the foreground prompted Giorgio Vasari’s effusive description of the scene as ‘amazing, particularly for the beauty of some dogs in various attitudes, which could not be more perfect’

Estimate: £80,000-120,000
until 15 July, Online

Born into a peasant family, Abram Arkhipov (1862-1930) learnt his artistic skills from travelling icon painters. Peasant Girl is typical of his canvases of dynamic women executed when exploring the provinces surrounding Moscow. The girl’s resplendent attire and the artist’s energetic brushstrokes underline her proud peasant identity

Estimate: £200,000-400,000
until 21 July, Online

The summer of 1891 was an unhappy one for Edvard Munch — but one wouldn’t guess that from Sommeraften i Åsgårdstrand, his painting of two children picking berries in a garden. This charming, early-evening vignette shows the influence of Impressionism and Divisionism, gained during the two previous years he’d spent in Paris

Estimate: $200,000-300,000
until 15 July, Online

Adrien Meyer. Photo: Brian W. Ferry // André Derain (1880-1954), Les Salins de Martigues, 1913 (detail). Estimate: £50,000-70,000. Offered in Joie de Vivre: Modern Art and the Riviera, 30 June to 17 July 2020, Online. Artwork: © André Derain / DACS 2020 // Brice Marden in his New York studio, 2006, with Complements, 2004-2007. Photo: Tony Cenicola / The New York Times / Redux / eyevine. Artwork: © Brice Marden / DACS 2020 // Hong Gyu Shin in his New York apartment with works by Teresa Burga, Carla Prina, Jackson Pollock and Marisol Escobar. Photo: Courtesy of Shin Gallery. Artworks: © Estate of Marisol / ARS, NY and DACS, London 2020. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation ARS, NY and DACS, London 2020 // Sanyu (Chang Yu, 1895-1966), Chrysanthèmes blanches dans un pot bleu et blanc (White Chrysanthemum in a Blue and White Jardiniere). Estimate: HK$60,000,000-80,000,000. Offered in Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 10 July 2020 at Christie’s in Hong Kong // Jonas Wood photographed at his studio with his artwork Vegas, 2017. Photo: Steven Perilloux. Artwork: © Jonas Wood

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