Christie's Online Magazine No.257

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International Women’s Day, Magnificent wines and spirits, Joan Miró’s paintings, Contemporary Asian art, Collecting Camille Pissarro, Chinese archaic bronzes, and more |

International Women’s Day: meet the museum directors changing the way we look at art

Joan Miró: why André Breton described the Spanish artist as ‘the most Surrealist of us all’

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From the archive: Chinese archaic bronzes, and how to tell a he from a hu, a gong from a gu

Best cellars: the billionaire’s whiskey, Napoleonic rum, and other stories from our wine team

The ‘prophet’ who was the only artist to appear in all eight Impressionist exhibitions

And one you may have missed: our new collector’s guide to contemporary Asian art

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Editor’s picks

Despite being blind in one eye and myopic in the other, later losing his sight completely, Benodebehari Mukherjee became one of India’s most important modern artists. In Frying Fish, from around 1953, a calm but industrious cook and a prowling cat, both caught mid-movement, are depicted with masterful economy

Estimate: $30,000-50,000
17 March, New York

The playful creations of Italian jeweller Michele della Valle are often inspired by nature, with many of his designs including animals and flowers. This bunny brooch is made of blue topaz and round diamonds in a white gold setting, with a cabochon ruby for the eye

Estimate: $7,000-10,000
until 17 March, Online

This incredibly lifelike dandelion sculpture by Suzuki Shota is made of copper, brass, titanium and gold. It is not painted, but coloured using the traditional Japanese method of patination: the metals are bathed in daikon radish juice, and the resulting chemical reactions produce a variety of hues

Estimate: $8,000-12,000
16 March, New York

This is a magnificent example of a Guro mask from Ivory Coast, with intricately carved teeth, hair and decorative markings. Traditionally used in ceremonies including weddings and funerals, such masks are sometimes topped with horns or animal figures; this one features a tall, elegantly rendered standing bird

Estimate: €4,000-6,000
until 11 March, Online

Thelma Golden with Andy Robert, Greyhound II Harlem, 2017 (detail). Photo: Brad Ogbonna / Redux / eyevine. Artwork: Courtesy the artist, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles, and Greene Naftali, New York / Maria Balshaw at Tate Britain with Cerith Wyn Evans, Forms in Space… by Light (in Time), the 2017 Tate Britain Commission. Photo: Tom Jamieson / New York Times / eyevine. Artwork: © Cerith Wyn Evans / Kaywin Feldman, who in December 2018 became the first woman director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Photo: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington / Sheikha Al Mayassa is at the heart of Qatar’s nation-building programme. Photo: Harry Cory Wright/The Interior Archive // Joan Miro in his studio, 1979. Photo: Alain Dejean / Sygma via Getty Images. Artwork: © Successió Miró / ADAGP, Paris and DACS London 2021 // Camille Pissarro. Photo: Archives Larousse, Paris. Bridgeman Images // Hideaki Kawashima (b.1969), Go Ahead, 2001. Estimate: $4,000-6,000. Offered in Contemporary Art Asia, until 12 March 2021, Online

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