Christie's Online Magazine No.274

From: Christie's - Saturday Jul 03, 2021 09:30 am

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20th/21st Century Evening Sales top £153m, Dutch landscape artists, Jack Butler Yeats, Edward Burne-Jones, Theatre paintings, a Bronze Age horn |

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20th/21st Century: London to Paris sale series tops £153m, led by Picasso’s L’Etreinte at £14m

From Jan Josefsz. van Goyen to Meindert Hobbema: 10 Dutch landscape artists to collect

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Scene-stealers — how artists captured the golden age of theatre in 18th-century London

‘One of Ireland’s finest modern painters’: revered by Samuel Beckett, collected by James Joyce

‘It caused a sensation’: the only one of Burne-Jones’s Briar Rose paintings left in private hands

‘You have to circulate air, as with a didgeridoo’ — how to play this 3,000-year-old Bronze Age horn

Editor’s picks

View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi, dating from 1745-47, is an early masterpiece by Bernardo Bellotto. Bustling with life and packed with detail — captured in our short film — it displays the ambition of an artist in his twenties who went on to work at royal courts across Europe

Estimate: £12,000,000-18,000,000
8 July, London

Cast in the early 1900s, this gilt-bronze statue by Jean-Léon Gérôme represents the city of Corinth. Seated on a Corinthian capital, the female figure embodies both the allure and the unattainability of the ancient trading centre. As an inscription in Latin on the base says, ‘Not everyone can go to Corinth’

Estimate: £150,000-250,000
8 July, London

The radical artist Piero Gilardi has long been a champion of the environment. He first produced his ‘nature carpets’ in the mid-1960s — and Fallen Fruit, from 1991, is in the same idiom. These mats of realistic-looking plant life, here including apples and broken boughs, are actually made of polyurethane

Estimate: £3,000-5,000
until 7 July, Online

Knight, Death and the Devil is one of Albrecht Dürer’s most famous works. Engraved in 1513, it presents an armoured horseman — probably alluding to the Christian Knight in the writings of Erasmus — showing no fear when faced with the corpse-like figure of Death and a hideous, pike-wielding Devil

Estimate: £70,000-100,000
6 July, London

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Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957), Among Horses, 1947 (detail). Oil on canvas. 20 x 27 in (50.8 x 68.6 cm). Estimate: £400,000-600,000. Offered in The B.J. Eastwood Collection: Important Sporting and Irish Pictures on 9 July 2021 at Christie’s in London. Artwork: © Estate of Jack B Yeats. All rights reserved, DACS 2021