Christie's Online Magazine No.244

From: Christie's - Saturday Nov 21, 2020 11:34 am

Christie’s

Art stories to feed the mind and soul

The couple who ‘just bought art they felt a connection with’ — Calder, Noguchi, Diebenkorn

Hidden away for 200 years — this work by the leading still life painter of the Golden Age

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Meet the Gallic sculptor inspired by the Ancien Régime — and the subversive spirit of May ’68

Matthew Wong’s ‘hallucinatory pilgrimages’: the poignant legacy of a life spent journeying

Fit for a Sun King: a cabinet by André-Charles Boulle that is one of only nine surviving of its kind

How the supercharged art of Takashi Murakami channels kawaii, manga, anime and ukiyo-e

Editor’s picks

At just over five feet high, with six rooms and a central staircase, this is a fine example of a doll’s house — and quite a bit larger than the average. But it came from somewhere a lot bigger, having previously been owned by the family of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire

Estimate: £1,000-2,000
until 25 November, Online

An early work by Yayoi Kusama, Stars (1953) is a forerunner of the polka-dot sculptures, paintings and installations that would make her world-famous. ‘Our Earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos,’ she once said. ‘Polka dots are a way to infinity’

Estimate: €60,000-80,000
until 26 November, Online

The lustrous cherries on this Sèvres porcelain plate look good enough, and real enough, to pluck up and eat. That level of artistry suggests a VIP client, and indeed this was part of a set created in 1825 for Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Siciles, Duchess de Berry

Estimate: €4,000-6,000
24 November, Paris

With a caricaturist’s eye for the absurd, Thomas Rowlandson captures the essence of a strutting gent in The Dandy — as well as the reactions of the women, children and domestic fowl nearby — all conveyed with brevity and wit in pen and ink, pencil and watercolour

Estimate: £800-1,200
24 November-8 December, Online

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Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), Man, 1945. Wood. Estimate: $3,000,000-5,000,000. Offered in 20th Century: Hong Kong to New York. Artwork: © The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum/ARS, New York and DACS, London 2020 // Matthew Wong (1984-2019), The Journey Home, 2017 (detail). Oil on wooden panel (triptych). Estimate: HK$700,000-1,500,000. Offered in Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 2 December 2020 at Christie’s in Hong Kong // Takashi Murakami and his dog, Pom, 2018. Photograph by Tomohiko Tagawa