Christie's Online Magazine No.253

From: Christie's - Saturday Feb 06, 2021 11:39 am

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A Van Gogh portrait, Artists and the ocean, Tribute to Richard Feigen, The English antiques trade, Growing up with Philip Guston, Meteorites and dodos, and more |

Making waves: works that chart artists’ relationships with the sea, from the Middle Ages to today

From figuration to abstraction and back again: memories of Philip Guston, by his daughter

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‘I am a collector in dealer’s clothes’: our 2019 encounter with the late Richard Feigen

How one of Van Gogh’s greatest ever drawings, La Mousmé, released his ‘clarity of touch’

When Brighton rocked — how a humble English seaside town became a mecca for antiques

Our head of Natural History and Science on meteorites, enigma machines and dodos

More stories

Editor’s picks

These ‘Violet’ earrings are by JAR — jeweller Joel Arthur Rosenthal, who left his native New York for Paris in 1977 to set up shop in the Place Vendôme. Strikingly naturalistic with their organic petal shapes and vivid colour, they are made of white gold and aluminium

Estimate: $2,000-3,000
until 10 February, Online

Alberto Magnelli became famous as an exponent of Concrete art, a form of abstraction that emphatically resisted representation — which makes this still life from 1912 all the more fascinating. Although he would later abandon the depiction of objects, the artist conveys their simple beauty and immediacy with exceptional skill

Estimate: €30,000-50,000
until 10 February, Online

Made in Switzerland, this walnut-wood bench is a powerful yet playful piece. A pair of standing bears, with roaring red-painted mouths and glass eyes, hold up the seat, while another two decorate the backrest. A carved tree trunk, boughs and pine cones complete the woodland look

Estimate: £6,000-8,000
until 25 February, Online

This terracotta sculpture from Veracruz in Mexico, dating from around 550-950 AD, depicts a person of considerable importance. The wide stance gives the figure an imposing air, and the wide belt, ring-shaped headdress, tubular ear ornaments and thickly coiled necklace all indicate high status

Estimate: €15,000-20,000
9 February, Paris

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, exhibited 1842. Photo: © Tate // Guston in his Woodstock studio several months before Philip Guston: Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, 1970. Photograph by Frank R. Lloyd / Philip Guston, The Studio, 1969. Private Collection. © The Estate of Philip Guston. From the book Philip Guston by Musa Mayer, published by Laurence King, 2020 // Richard Feigen at his home in New York in 2019. Photograph by Daniel Dorsa // Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), La Mousmé, 1888. Chester Dale Collection. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington // Antique shops, Meeting House Lane, The Lanes, Brighton. Photo: Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove

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