Christie's Online Magazine No.259

From: Christie's - Saturday Mar 20, 2021 11:37 am

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Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, How the Fords collected, A Persian treasure, Tintoretto’s daughter, Matisse, Art sales redefined, and more |

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Art sales reimagined: how our new 20th & 21st Century Art department is shaking things up

The story of Persia’s fashion-obsessed ruler Fath ’Ali Shah — and a few of his 250 sons

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‘Style and collecting on a grand scale’: inside the private world of one of America’s great dynasties

Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: one of the most important ‘London’ paintings offered in a generation

From the archive: the art of Henri Matisse, from his love of textiles to his mastery of colour

The only image categorically attributed to Tintoretto’s daughter, his beloved Marietta

Editor’s picks

Cup and Saucer II is unmistakably the work of Roy Lichtenstein, but it’s a painted bronze rather than a canvas. A series of such bronzes, made between 1976 and 1977, feature mirrors, lamps, a goldfish bowl and other domestic objects, reflecting his focus on still life in the 1970s

Estimate: £450,000-650,000
23 March, London

Louis Anquetin’s 1887 work L’Avenue de Clichy, Paris is quite distinct from the art of the Impressionists. Inspired by medieval stained glass and Japanese woodcuts, Anquetin developed a style known as Cloisonnism, with flat areas of colour enclosed by black outlines, creating his own lucid, modern vision of the city

Estimate: £250,000-350,000
24 March, London

This pendant necklace is by Graff, the jewellery house that was founded in London six decades ago and now has 50 stores around the world. Made of white gold inlaid with 107 round diamonds and 315 round sapphires, it evokes the power of the ocean with an intricate and eye-catching wave motif

Estimate: HK$240,000-340,000
until 25 March, Online

Eugène Delacroix is known for vast history paintings, so it is intriguing to see his intimate ink, watercolour and gouache drawing for a lithograph to illustrate Goethe’s Faust. It depicts the scene in which the demon Mephistopheles appears to Faust and offers him the gift of youth in exchange for his soul

Estimate: €50,000-70,000
24 March, Paris

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Henri Matisse in his studio, Nice, August 1949. Photo: © Robert Capa © International Center of Photography / Magnum Photos. Artworks: © Succession H. Matisse / DACS 2021