Christie's Online Magazine No.276

From: Christie's - Saturday Sep 11, 2021 03:05 pm

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9/11 Remembered, Jasper Conran’s castle, Impressionist masterpieces, Designer Gareth Pugh, Givenchy and Lalanne, A passion for prints, and more |

9/11 remembered: one artist’s quest to ‘mend life’ using paper and dust from the Twin Towers

‘A beady eye for the beautiful’ — British designer Jasper Conran on filling his Palladian ‘castle’

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‘Distinctively French’ — the Paris apartment where Givenchy and Les Lalanne collide

‘These are really the pages of her life story’: Lois B. Torf and her passionate pursuit of prints

Throughlines: fashion designer Gareth Pugh on how art history influences contemporary style

Assembled in less than a decade: the Cox Collection of ‘stellar’ Impressionist masterpieces

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Editor’s picks

Roy Lichtenstein’s 1963 lithograph Crying Girl is rich in associations. It looks like a comic strip, but also calls to mind Picasso’s portraits of weeping women. The close-up framing seems to trap the female subject — a pointed comment, perhaps, on women’s position in society

Estimate: $50,000-70,000
15 September, New York

Its main character is now box-office gold, but Beatrix Potter’s original manuscript for The Tale of Peter Rabbit was rejected by half a dozen publishers. Potter took matters into her own hands, and this 1901 edition is one of the first run of 250 copies to be privately printed by the author

Estimate: $20,000-30,000
14 September, New York

Attributed to Stephen Slaughter, this group portrait dates from the mid-1700s. There is great warmth and humanity in its depiction of William Russell of Basingstoke, his wife Mabel and their four daughters, capturing family resemblances as well as the individual characters of the parents and siblings

Estimate: £30,000-50,000
14 September, London

This 19th-century Chinese water dropper, used in the art of calligraphy, takes the form of the Daoist god of wealth, Liu Hai. He is said to have learned the secret of immortality from the three-legged money toad, who sits just behind Liu Hai’s head and forms the dropper’s handle

Estimate: $4,000-6,000
14-28 September, Online

Elena del Rivero (b. 1949), #44, 2014-2018. Selenium toned gelatin silver print collage, thread and vintage postcard of Goya’s Retrato del Marqués de San Adrian, Navarra Museum, Spain. 18¾ x 18⅝ in (47.6 x 47.3 cm). From The Archive of Dust 2001-2021 on view at Christie’s in New York, 9-12 September 2021. © 2021 Elena del Rivero // Exterior of New Wardour Castle. Photo: Tim Beddow // Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Figure Composée II, 1949. Lithograph, on Arches paper. Sheet: 25⅞ x 19⅝ in (657 x 499 mm). Estimate: $25,000-35,000. © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2021 / Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920), Black Suckers, from Seven Still Lifes and a Silver Landscape, 1971. Aquatint, on Rives BFK paper. Image: 17½ x 21¾ in (445 x 552 mm). Sheet: 22 x 29¾ in (559 x 756 mm). Estimate: $15,000-25,000. © Wayne Thiebaud/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2021 / Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn): one print, 1967. Screenprint in colours, on wove paper. Sheet: 36 x 36 in (914 x 914 mm). Estimate: $150,000-250,000. © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by DACS, London. All offered in A Graphic Dialogue: Prints from the Collection of Lois B. Torf on 15 September 2021 at Christie’s in New York // Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), Jeune homme à sa fenêtre, 1876. Oil on canvas. 45⅝ x 31⅞ in. (116 x 81 cm.). Estimate: On request / Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), L’Estaque aux toits rouges, 1883-1885. Oil on canvas. 25¾ x 32 in (65.5 x 81.4 cm). Estimate: $35,000,000-55,000,000 / Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Cabanes de bois parmi les oliviers et cyprès, 1889. Oil on canvas. 17⅞ x 23¾ in (45.5 x 60.3 cm). Estimate: On request. All offered in The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism at Christie's New York and Online, November and December 2021

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