Christie's Online Magazine No.261

From: Christie's - Saturday Apr 03, 2021 10:29 am

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Coloured stones, Islamic calligraphy, Landmark medical texts, Street photography, Food meets art, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and more |

Breakthrough medical texts: including a letter of apology for a vaccine shortage — in 1801

From holy script to Huroufiyah: changes in Islamic calligraphy across a thousand years

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The hillside that became an installation: Hiroshi Sugimoto and the Enoura Observatory

When art meets food: how Italy’s most feted chef is inspired by the contemporary artists he collects

From the archive: discover the photographers who captured the spirit of post-war New York

And one you may have missed… Collecting coloured stones, from emeralds to rubies to diamonds

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Editor’s picks

Henri Cartier-Bresson took this poignant photograph of Marilyn Monroe in Reno, Nevada, during the famously troubled shooting of the 1961 film The Misfits. Directed by John Huston, co-starring Clark Gable and written for Monroe by her husband Arthur Miller, it was to be her final screen role

Estimate: $7,000-9,000
6 April, New York

The story of Tristan and Isolde inspired Salvador Dalí to design this garnet, diamond and gold brooch made by Alemany & Ertman around 1958. In the tragic legend, a knight and a princess fall for each other after unwittingly drinking a love potion — represented by the chalice between their two faces

Estimate: $12,000-18,000
13 April, New York

George Leslie Hunter was one of a group of four painters known as the Scottish Colourists. He was noted in particular for his treatment of light, and in Flowers in a Vase and Apple, the vivid dab of white on the skin of the red fruit is central to the effect of the painting

Estimate: £25,000-35,000
15 April, London

Dating from an era of elaborate decoration, this Victorian teapot stands out for its modern simplicity. It was designed by Christopher Dresser in 1880, in a style that would become popular 40 years later, and consists of a silver-plated sphere on four rod supports, with a straight wooden handle

Estimate: $5,000-8,000
until 7 April, Online

Edward Jenner performing the first vaccination against smallpox by Gaston Melingue, 1879. Academie de Medecine, Paris. Photo: © Archives Charmet / Bridgeman Images // Hiroshi Sugimoto and Enoura Observatory. Photographs by Robbie Lawrence // Massimo Bottura. Photograph by Thomas Chéné / Osteria Francescana, Modena. Photograph by Thomas Chéné. Artwork: Damien Hirst, Beautiful Sonic Disco of Love and Hate at the Gate of Hell Painting with Wicked Pools of Glorious Massimo Bottura Colour and Psychedelic Spin Painted Veal, Not Flame Grilled, 2007. Household gloss on canvas. 2,134 mm (84 in). © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2021 // Louis Faurer (1916-2001), Family, Times Square, 1950. Dye-transfer print, printed 1980. Estimate: $6,000-8,000. Offered in Photographs on 6 April 2021 at Christie’s in New York

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Christie's Online Magazine No.261