Christie's Online Magazine No.238

From: Christie's - Saturday Oct 10, 2020 10:19 am

Christie’s

Art stories to feed the mind and soul

Cézanne, Twombly and a T. rex called STAN send new-look 20th Century Week soaring to $387m

How an adviser to Reagan and Obama charted the rise of Dutch Golden Age landscapes

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Peter Doig’s Boiler House — a masterly canvas from the artist’s celebrated series, Concrete Cabins

The mystery of Paul Doll: why did the stockbroker and his sublime collection disappear?

‘Surreal, at times erotic and occasionally horrific’ — the anti-portraits amassed by W.M. Hunt

Family matters: artists inspired by daughters and sons, mothers and fathers, husbands and wives

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Editor’s picks

This gold-ground porcelain teapot, with its distinctive dolphin spout, was almost certainly owned by Marie Antoinette, having been purchased by her or Louis XVI in January 1779. Of the 89 teapots originally produced in this form, only 12 are now accounted for, eight of them in museums

Estimate: $30,000-50,000
22 October, New York

Inspired by a gleefully salacious Robert Browning poem of the same name, John Collier’s painting The Laboratory depicts a would-be murderess as she watches an alchemist prepare a poison that will kill her husband’s lover. Her throat is bare: she has laid out her jewels on the table as the old man’s fee

Estimate: $150,000-250,000
15 October, New York

In an image based on a still from the movie A Night in Casablanca, the Marx Brothers are honoured alongside such luminaries as Albert Einstein, Franz Kafka and Sarah Bernhardt in Andy Warhol’s 1980 series Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century. It was the first of several collaborations with the New York gallerist Ronald Feldman

Estimate: $30,000-50,000
20-21 October, New York

Produced by editor Georg Braun of Cologne, together with Flemish engraver and mapmaker Frans Hogenberg, Cities of the World was a 16th-century bestseller, and a true original. The world’s first comprehensive atlas of town plans and bird’s-eye views, it required the skills of more than 100 artists

Estimate: $30,000-50,000
until 16 October, Online

Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne (Delft 1589-1662 the Hague), A winter landscape with skaters before a village. Estimate: $180,000-220,000. Offered in The Martin Feldstein Collection: Dutch Art in the Golden Age on 15 October 2020 at Christie’s in New York // Peter Doig (b. 1959), Boiler House, 1993. Oil on canvas. Estimate on request. Offered in Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 22 October 2020 at Christie’s in London // Weegee (1899–1968), Hexagonal Andy Warhol, c. 1960. Estimate: $5,000-7,000. Offered in The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, 5-14 October 2020, Online // Ludovic Nkoth, Sunday, 2020 (detail). Courtesy of the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin

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