Christie's Online Magazine No.273

From: Christie's - Saturday Jun 26, 2021 09:44 am

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Collecting Lynn Chadwick, Rising stars, A Celebration of Pride, The Francis Gross Collection, Michael Kagan, FEWOCiOUS, and more |

The WWII pilot whose ‘balance and timing’ would help make him a titan of post-war sculpture

‘I needed a way out’: how teen trans artist FEWOCiOUS found affirmation and salvation in art

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How to get ahead in advertising: the media mogul who adored Dubuffet, Magritte and Schiele

Gallery deals, solo shows, critical acclaim and prizes: eight women artists stirring up the art world

Studio visit: astronaut painter Michael Kagan on his new surf-based work for AIDS research

A celebration of Pride Month — 70 years of queer history in art, from Arbus to Haring to Warhol

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Editor’s picks

Elizabeth Peyton has said: ‘Making art is making something live forever.’ Having previously immortalised countless friends, public figures, pop stars and cultural icons in her portraits, she turned her attention to a fellow artist in her 2015 painting Julie (Julie Mehretu) and produced a work that radiates charisma

Estimate: £400,000-600,000
30 June, London

Happy New York #4 (NYC 12), from 1982, is a vivid example of the work of Gloria Klein. The New York-based artist’s canvases — created according to a self-devised system of geometry and colour — are a bold statement of her independence from the male-dominated art world of the 1970s and 1980s

Estimate: On request
until 30 June, New York

The influence of Albrecht Dürer is apparent in these 19th-century ormolu ink wells. In his famous 1515 woodcut of a rhinoceros, Dürer made its hide look like armour plating and added an extra horn above the shoulders — both of which details appear in this handsome pair

Estimate: $12,000-18,000
until 1 July, Online

Daniel Arsham is known for his ‘corroded’ sculptures of toys, household objects, racing cars and classical statuary. In his 2019 work Crystal Relic 001, however, he presents a pristine replica in cast resin of a New York Yankees baseball cap, with every detail of fabric and stitching precisely reproduced

Estimate: HK$10,000-15,000
until 30 June, Online

Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003), High Wind II, 1988. Bronze. 73⅜ x 36 x 36¼ in (186.5 x 91.5 x 92 cm). Estimate: £800,000-1,200,000. Offered in 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 30 June 2021 at Christie’s in London // Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985), Le chien mangeur de cheveux, 1943. Oil on canvas. 19⅝ x 26⅛ in (50 x 66.5 cm). Estimate: €500,000-700,000. Offered in 20th/21st Century: Collection Francis Gross on 30 June 2021 at Christie’s in Paris // Chantal Joffe (b. 1969), Untitled, 1996. Oil and gesso on board. 11½ x 8½ in (29.2 x 21.6 cm). Estimate: £4,000-6,000. Offered in First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online, 24 June-7 July 2021, Online / Eleanor Swordy (b. 1987), Contact, 2021. Pastel on paper. 14 x 11 in (35.6 x 27.9 cm). Estimate: £3,000-5,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 2 July 2021 at Christie’s in London / Jenna Gribbon (b. 1978), Beach Glory, 2020. Oil on vellum. 12 x 9 in (30.5 x 22.9 cm). Estimate: £4,000-6,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 2 July 2021 at Christie’s in London / Frances Stark (b. 1967), Image Proof, 2007. Mixed media on wood. Overall: 93 x 72 x 1¾ in (236.2 x 182.9 x 4.5 cm). Estimate: £10,000-15,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 2 July 2021 at Christie’s in London / Ewa Juszkiewicz (b.1984), Bez tytułu (wg Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggia) — Untitled (by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio), 2015. Oil on canvas. 45⅞ x 35⅝ in (116.5 x 90.5 cm). Estimate: £25,000-35,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 2 July 2021 at Christie’s in London // The ‘Progress’ Pride flag designed by artist Daniel Quasar, 2018. Photo: Jeffrey Whyte / Alamy Stock Photo

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