Christie's Online Magazine No.277

From: Christie's - Saturday Sep 18, 2021 03:08 pm

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C.Z. Guest, Books that made millions, Tang dynasty silver, Modern art in Paris, British Victoriana, Rabindranath Tagore, and more |

Adored by Capote, painted by Dalí and Rivera — how C.Z. Guest embodied American style

From Audubon to Kerouac, the Bard to Bach: 10 top books and manuscripts sold at Christie’s

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The 17th-century Paris home where Kiefer, Barceló, Noland and Penck have pride of place

Rabindranath Tagore: why the Nobel Prize-winning poet chose a new path at 60 — as a painter

‘Exotic and extraordinary’: an ‘animals’ bowl and a ‘rhinoceros’ dish crafted a millennium ago

‘They believed in their cause’: the pioneering couple who found beauty in unloved Victoriana

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Editor’s picks

Bulls are a constant presence in the art of Pablo Picasso, by turns evoking courage, savagery, nobility and lust. The Spanish artist’s obsession with the animal — often used as an emblem of his homeland — is given vigorous expression in this ceramic pitcher, which presents the bull from all sides

Estimate: £60,000-80,000
until 22 September, Online

‘I paint because I derive pleasure from painting,’ wrote the artist Narayan Shridhar Bendre, ‘and I try to give pleasure to others.’ With its delicate Pointillist style, warm tones and poised sense of harmony, Untitled (Three Women), dating from 1972, is a serene embodiment of that philosophy

Estimate: $80,000-120,000
22 September, New York

Contemporary art meets horological expertise in this Cindy Sherman ‘Fortune Teller’ watch. The artist teamed up with Barneys New York in 1993 to create the limited-edition timepiece, made by S.M. Grotell and Florian Favre and sold to benefit AIDS research

Estimate: $1,500-2,000
until 23 September, Online

This sculpture of a carp was made in 19th-century Japan. The carp is a powerful symbol in Japanese culture, representing the divinity of the emperor, and great ingenuity has been lavished on this piece, jointed so that the body bends and the fins move

Estimate: $30,000-40,000
21 September, New York

C.Z. Guest perches on the edge of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach, Florida, 1955. Photo: Slim Aarons/Getty Images // Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945), für Paul Celan, 2006. Oil, emulsion, acrylic, branches, metal, wood, and chalk on canvas mounted on board. 110½ x 224⅜ x 19⅝ in. Estimate: €700,000-1,000,000. Miquel Barceló (b. 1957), Boc Encapironat, 2006. Bronze with dark patina. 77⅛ x 17¾ x 59 in. Estimate: €150,000-200,000. Both offered in Droit de regard. Collection Pierre Rochelois on 27 September 2021 at Christie’s in Paris // Rabindranath Tagore, c. 1917. Photo: Ian Dagnall Computing / Alamy Stock Photo

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