Christie's Online Magazine No.270

From: Christie's - Saturday Jun 05, 2021 09:29 am

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Editor’s picks

The French actress Sarah Bernhardt was the biggest star of her day. In a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she was admired by everyone from Victor Hugo to Sigmund Freud. This portrait, by the Belgian painter Henri Joseph Thomas, is a brilliant evocation of her mystique

Estimate: €7,000-10,000
16 June, Paris

The Cartier Crash watch is said to have been invented as a result of an accident. The story goes that a man brought his watch to the Cartier shop in London to have it repaired after it had been damaged in a car crash, thus inspiring the boldly eccentric, asymmetrical design

Estimate: $40,000-60,000
8-22 June, Online

Roderic O’Conor was Irish by birth but spent much of his life in France, where he was influenced by the Impressionists and by his friend Paul Gauguin. The Bay with Red Orchard is a delicately atmospheric painting from around 1913, when O’Conor was living in the Mediterranean port of Cassis

Estimate: £30,000-50,000
8 June, London

Tiffany & Co. has allowed only a handful of people to put their names to their designs; Jean Schlumberger is one of that select band. His elegant fish brooch, set with diamonds and cabochon rubies, is made of yellow gold and platinum, with blue enamel for the fins and tails

Estimate: $30,000-50,000
8 June, New York

Roger Federer plays during The Championships, Wimbledon, in 2009. Photo: Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images // Vasilii Shukhaev and Alexandre Iacovleff, Port-Cros. Photo: courtesy of a private collection. Top left, Vasilii Shukhaev, Les Forêts (Cassis sur Mer), 1928 (detail). Oil on canvas. 19⅝ x 24⅛ in (49.8 x 61.2 cm). Estimate: £60,000-80,000. Bottom right, Vasilii Shukhaev, Les Ponts (Collioure), 1927 (detail). Oil on canvas. 21¼ x 31⅝ in (53.7 x 80.4 cm). Estimate: £50,000-70,000. Both offered in Russian Art on 7 June 2021 at Christie’s in London

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Christie's Online Magazine No.270