Christie's Online Magazine No.255

From: Christie's - Saturday Feb 20, 2021 12:00 pm

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Churchill’s only wartime painting, Christie’s first purely digital artwork, Aboudia, L.S. Lowry, Limewood sculptures, Instagram artists to follow, and more |

Why Winston Churchill gave the only painting he made during the war to Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘It’s possible to grow up on the street and become someone’: meet Ivory Coast artist Aboudia

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5,000 pictures in one — this monumental collage is Christie’s first ever purely digital artwork

From the archive: a tour of the spectacular limewood sculptures of the northern Renaissance

The art of Instagram: our refreshed guide to the most compelling artists posting today

And one you may have missed… the rent collector who became Britain’s most famous Modernist

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Editor’s picks

Famed for keeping cheetahs as pets and wearing live snakes as jewellery, Marchesa Luisa Casati was a muse to many artists. This photograph by Man Ray shows her at a ball in Paris in 1935, dressed as the Empress of Austria, with her painted horses Flick and Flock

Estimate: €10,000-15,000
2 March, Paris

In Outward Bound, 1944, by the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats, a man sails out to sea at sunrise and looks back towards land. Is he a fisherman or, as the bundle on his back suggests, one of the many emigrants who left Ireland in search of a new life abroad?

Estimate: £80,000-120,000
2 March, London

The placement of each stacked element at a slight angle to the one below gives Barbara Hepworth’s Square Forms (Two Sequences) a brilliantly subtle sense of movement. Its design may have been influenced by the double-helix model of DNA, discovered in 1962, the year before the work was conceived

Estimate: £300,000-500,000
1 March, London

This white jade brush washer, a shallow dish used for cleaning the ink from calligraphy brushes, is from the Qianlong period (1736-1795). Decorated with twin fish representing marital felicity, the dish, when full, embodies the Chinese blessing: ‘May you be as harmonious as fish and water’

Estimate: $60,000-80,000
18 March, New York

Churchill and Roosevelt at the Villa Taylor in Marrakech on 24 January 1943. Photo by Time Life Pictures/National Archives/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images // The Altarpiece of the Holy Blood by Tilman Riemenschneider, at Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Photograph by Achim Bunz // Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976), Street Scene, 1957 (detail). Estimate: £300,000-500,000. Offered in Modern British Art Evening Sale on 1 March 2021 at Christie's in London. Artwork: © The Estate of L.S. Lowry. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2021

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