Christie's Online Magazine No.266

From: Christie's - Saturday May 08, 2021 10:25 am

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Female figurative artists, wine from space, radical sculptors, Patek Philippe’s World Time, and more |

‘Easy to swallow, hard to digest’: six female artists questioning the world through the human form

London, Paris, New York…Klondike: the Patek magic that gave us all the time in the world

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Sculptors breaking boundaries: from Duchamp to Bourgeois, Fischer to Kippenberger

Out of this world: the bottle of Petrus that orbited Earth for 14 months — and tastes sensational

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Editor’s picks

Kees van Dongen produced 77 watercolours to illustrate a 1947 edition of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu. This portrait of the dandy Robert de Saint-Loup in the fictional beach resort of Balbec is one of a number of works in the set that the artist presented to the Proust family

Estimate: $20,000-30,000
14 May, New York

Dreaming with Birds is a 2004 bronze by Kiki Smith, who uses drawing, printmaking, tapestry, film and sculpture to explore ‘embodiment and the natural world’. Here she depicts a sleeping woman being used as a perch by two giant birds that seem to be the product of her anxious dream

Estimate: $30,000-50,000
14 May, New York

In the playful form of an acrobatic dolphin whose tail flips round and almost touches its nose, this Alexandre Reza brooch is made of white, rose and yellow gold. The sparkle of the sea on its flanks comes from circular-cut diamonds and sapphires, and there’s a coloured diamond for its eye

Estimate: CHF3,200-5,400
until 10 May, Online

This Wedgwood vase from around 1925 is a prime example of the ‘Fairyland Lustre’ style favoured by the company between 1916 and 1941. It is characterised by the use of shimmering metallic glazes and lavish gilding to create magical narrative scenes — such as this version of the Chinese folk tale of the Dragon King

Estimate: £15,000-20,000
19 May, London

Cindy Sherman (b. 1954), Untitled #150, 1985. Chromogenic colour print. 49½ x 66¾ in (125.7 x 168.5 cm). Estimate: $600,000-800,000. Offered in the 21st Century Evening Sale on 11 May 2021 at Christie’s in New York // Urs Fischer (b. 1973), Things, 2017. Milled aluminium, steel, power magnets and two-component epoxy adhesive. 126 x 204⅜ x 118½ in (320 x 519 x 301 cm). Estimate: $3,000,000-6,000,000. Offered in the 21st Century Evening Sale on 11 May 2021 at Christie’s in New York. © Urs Fischer. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Stefan Altenburger // Photo: NASA

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