Christie's Online Magazine No.267

From: Christie's - Saturday May 15, 2021 10:11 am

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20th and 21st Century sales surpass $691m, Milton Avery, Jewels for brides, The Collection of Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason, and more |

Picasso and Basquiat take 20th and 21st Century sales past $691 million, with 15 artist records set

Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason, and the ‘antidote’ they found in collecting other artists’ works

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Editor’s picks

Irish Lass from 1913 is one of many striking portraits of girls and boys painted by the American artist Robert Henri on his regular visits to Ireland. ‘If one has a love of children as human beings, and realises the greatness that is in them,’ he wrote, ‘no better subjects for painting can be found’

Estimate: $200,000-300,000
18 May, New York

Named after Hollywood star-turned-princess Grace Kelly, the trapezoid Kelly handbag is an Hermès classic. This Mini Kelly Picnic bag from 2019 is a playful variation on the theme, with basketwork suggestive of a hamper full of goodies, and leather in a signature summer shade, Bleu du Nord

Estimate: HK$200,000-300,000
21 May, Hong Kong

Fernando Botero is famous for the substantial, rounded forms of the figures in his paintings and sculptures. His 1966 work Viaje místico (‘mystic journey’) depicts a red-robed clergyman setting out through a landscape that is similarly voluptuous, with its curved hills, pillowy clouds and chubby buildings

Estimate: $400,000-600,000
19 May, New York

Swiss watch brand Ulysse Nardin specialises in nautical timepieces, and its Maxi Marine Diver watch has a suitably seaworthy look. With pink gold gleaming against a dark background, it is trimmed like a luxury yacht, and the sub-dials on either side of the silvered face are reminiscent of portholes

Estimate: CHF3,000-5,000
until 18 May, Online

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Femme assise près d'une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse), 1932. Oil on canvas. 57½ x 44⅞ in (146 x 114 cm). Sold for $103,410,000 in 20th Century Evening Sale on 13 May 2021 at Christie’s in New York. © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2021 // Milton Avery (1885-1965), Woman on the Rocks, 1948 (detail). Watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper. 22⅜ x 30⅜ in (56.8 x 77 cm). Estimate: $80,000-120,000. Offered in American Art on 18 May 2021 at Christie’s in New York // Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason in their Venice Studio, 1958. Photography by Tinto Brass

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