Christie's Online Magazine No.230

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Art stories to feed the mind and soul

From Degas and Cassatt to Man Ray and Lee Miller: art history’s great mentor/mentee pairings

Sell-out shows, new auction records, obliterated estimates — five artists to invest in right now

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Why this legendary vintner is to lovers of Burgundy what Dom Pérignon is to Champagne

‘It’s about using your privilege and your power’: Marc Quinn on making art for change

‘I’m a completist when it comes to collecting’ — Guy Berryman of Coldplay talks ‘tool’ watches

Rosalba Carriera was adored by kings and poets — so why did her career end in tragedy?

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Editor’s picks

The cat was sacred to the goddess Bastet, a fearsome protector of the pharaoh, in ancient Egypt. This bronze head, which stands just under 11 cm high, dates to c. 664-332 BC. The scarab that sits between its ears is a symbol of regeneration

Estimate: £20,000-30,000
until 27 July, Online

One of the Newlyn School painters, Harold Harvey consistently depicted his native county of Cornwall as an arcadia. Over time, however, playfulness was replaced by a certain solemnity. Painted in his mid-50s, Two Young Girls with a Butterfly shows a pair of children kneeling to examine the most ephemeral of Earth’s creatures

Estimate: £25,000-35,000
until 29 July, Online

This Flemish ebony and ivory cabinet-on-stand was made in the third quarter of the 18th century to display a collection of jewel-like coloured 17th-century pietra dura panels. The central panel depicts Orpheus charming the animals with music. The smaller panels include images of a unicorn, a camel, a stag and a billy goat

Estimate: £80,000-120,000
23 July, London

Alex Katz made his first ‘cutout’ in 1959. Sixty years later, he produced another of these paintings-cum-sculptures, Coca-Cola Girl (Cutout), in which a blonde female is portrayed on a shaped piece of aluminium. Inspired by the pin-ups of old Coca-Cola advertising, she is, says Katz, a vision of ‘unlimited happiness’

Estimate: $30,000-50,000
until 30 July, Online

Lee Miller and Man Ray in Miller’s studio, rue Victor Considérant, in Paris in 1931. Photographed by Theodore Miller. © Lee Miller Archives, England, 2020. All rights reserved www.leemiller.co.uk // Maria Farrar (b. 1988), Birthday, 2016 (detail). Estimate: £6,000-8,000. Offered in First Open: Post-War & Contemporary Art Online, 14-28 July 2020, Online // The late Henri Jayer at his Echézeaux vineyard, Vosne-Romanée, in 1996. Photo: © Cephas / Mick Rock // Marc Quinn photographed at his studio. Photo: Dan Dennison. Artwork: © Marc Quinn // Guy Berryman of Coldplay. Photo: Amy Shore // Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757), Portrait of a young lady, bust-length, turned to the right (An allegory of Spring). Estimate: £40,000-60,000, Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757), Portrait of a lady, bust-length, looking to the right, holding grapes (An allegory of Autumn). Estimate: £40,000-60,000. Offered in Old Master & British Drawings & Watercolours, 6-27 July 2020, Online

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