Christie's Online Magazine No.250

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Art stories to feed the mind and soul

‘Masterpieces of grace, poetry and humour’ — the drawings of Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Might-see exhibitions? From Botticelli to Bacon, what to book when Europe’s museums reopen

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From the archive: why did Carlo Mollino keep a sumptuous secret apartment that he never slept in?

‘I am a woman painting, and you can’t stop me’: self-portraits by women who broke the rules

A Teotihuacán mask’s journey from 7th-century Mexico to the home of gallerist Pierre Matisse

At home with André Fu: the Hong Kong-based designer on his cherished art and objects

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Editor’s picks

This Rembrandt self-portrait, created around 1634 when he was 28, ignores extraneous details to focus on the young man’s head and face. The fact that the etching is little bigger than a postage stamp makes its detailed and penetrating depiction of the artist all the more remarkable

Estimate: £15,000-25,000
19-28 January, Online

Each of these Chanel earrings, mounted in gilt metal, features a silhouetted female figure in black enamel, her elegant pose mirroring that of her opposite number. But it’s not just any female figure: the image represents the fashion house’s illustrious founder, Coco Chanel

Estimate: $300-500
until 29 January, Online

Possibly the work of the potter George Adlum, or perhaps a gift to him from his son William, also a potter, this English delftware model of a dog dates from around 1720. As the slot in its back indicates, it was intended to be used as a money box

Estimate: $15,000-20,000
21 January, New York

In 1969, the dancer and singer Zizi Jeanmaire attended the Paris premiere of the film Battle of Britain in this Yves Saint Laurent cocktail dress. It later had a starring role of its own, appearing in the designer’s 1983 retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Estimate: €2,000-3,000
until 26 January, Online

Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection © Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, Niney et Marca Architectes, Agence Pierre-Antoine Gatier. Photo: Patrick Tourneboeuf / Oslo’s new Munch Museum. Photo: @Munchmuseet / Humboldt Forum, Berlin. Photo: © SHF / Christoph Musiol // Casa Mollino, Turin. Photographs by Alberto Zanetti // Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609-1660), Self-Portrait, c. 1630. Oil on canvas. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington // André Fu. Photograph by Amanda Kho. Artworks, from left: Claude Lalanne, Banquette Gingko, 2006 (detail) and Claude Lalanne, Crocoseat, 2007, both © Claude Lalanne, DACS 2021; Ai Weiwei, Untitled (Solid Divine Proportion), 2010. © Ai Weiwei; Su Xiaobai, Satisfactory No. 1, 2015. © Su Xiaobai; Antony Gormley, DOMAIN LX, 2006, © the artist

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Christie's Online Magazine No.250