Christie's Online Magazine No.275

From: Christie's - Saturday Jul 10, 2021 09:32 am

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Books for summer, Collecting Symbolists, Gretchen Berggruen, The Fayez. S. Sarofim Collection, Big names at low estimates, Jane Hay |

Summer reading: from Goya to Hogarth, histories to love stories, 10 light(ish) books for the beach

Gretchen Berggruen: a tribute to the gallerist who was at the heart of the California art world

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Androgyny, occultism and dreams of the sublime: why the Symbolists are back in vogue

Big names at surprising prices: Warhol, Hockney, Condo and more at estimates from $10,000

From El Greco to O’Keeffe — the eclectic tastes of Fayez S. Sarofim unveiled in Houston

‘Art and antiques are in my DNA’: Jane Hay on what she’s learnt from 33 years at Christie’s

More stories

Editor’s picks

This is one of only five known copies of the Caxton Cicero in private hands. Published by William Caxton in 1481 on England’s first ever printing press, it is of huge literary and historic importance, being the earliest printed English translation of a work from classical antiquity

Estimate: £250,000-350,000
14 July, London

The many dachshund paintings David Hockney made in the 1990s, such as Boodge, weren’t easy to do. As he noted, ‘From September 1993, I painted and drew my dogs. This took a certain amount of planning, since dogs are generally not interested in Art… Food and love dominate their lives’

Estimate: $20,000-30,000
until 21 July, Online

John Atkinson Grimshaw received no encouragement from his family to be an artist — indeed, his mother is said to have thrown his paintings on the fire. But he studied the art of others, and his magically serene 1865 work Near Lake Windermere, Cumbria, shows the delicate influence of the Pre-Raphaelites

Estimate: £60,000-80,000
15 July, London

Timepieces set on the backs of bronze exotic animals were fashionable in Europe from the 18th century onwards. This French elephant clock has an enlivening sense of movement, from the rococo curlicues of the plinth — echoed in the curved elephant’s trunk — to the swaying robed figure on top

Estimate: £4,000-6,000
until 12 July, Online

This is our last edition before the summer break. We’ll be back with more stories soon

Gretchen Berggruen. Photo: Drew Alitzer // Winslow Homer, The Woodcutter, 1891 / John Singer Sargent, Madame Ramón Subercaseaux, c. 1880-81 (detail) / Lee Krasner, The Green Fuse, 1968 (detail). © 2021 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Childe Hassam, Celebration Day, 1918 (detail) / Coptic, Square with Female Bust, c. 800-1000 / El Greco, The Crucifixion, 1575-80 (detail). Three Centuries of American Art – Antiquities, European and American Masterpieces from The Fayez S. Sarofim Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 27 June-6 September 2021 // Andy Warhol, Beatle Boots (Negative), 1985-86. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas. 20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Estimate: $40,000-60,000 / George Condo (b. 1957), Untitled (Sculpted Painting), 1987. Wax crayon, oil, colored pencil, watercolor, ink and paper collage on canvas. 15 x 18 in (38.2 x 45.8 cm). Estimate: $20,000-30,000 / Kenny Scharf (b. 1958), Snake, 1992. Acrylic, oil and silkscreen ink on canvas board in artist's appointed frame. Canvas board: 5 x 7 in (12.7 x 17.7 cm). Frame: 8⅜ x 10⅜ in (21.2 x 26.3 cm). Estimate: $6,000-8,000. All offered in First Open | Post-War & Contemporary Art from 9-21 July 2021 at Christie’s Online // Jane Hay at Christie’s Education. Photograph by Liz Seabrook // David Hockney (b. 1937), Boodge, 1995. Signed and inscribed 'LOVE DAVID H' (upper edge); titled and inscribed 'Boodge For Richard' (lower edge). Oil on canvas. 8⅝ x 10⅝ in (22 x 27 cm). Estimate: $20,000-30,000. Offered in First Open | Post-War & Contemporary Art from 9-21 July 2021 at Christie’s Online

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