Christie's Online Magazine No.278

From: Christie's - Saturday Sep 25, 2021 03:05 pm

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Radiohead’s cover art, Warhol’s prints, Gustave Caillebotte, The Herbert Kasper collection, Rare whisky, Trailblazing women artists, and more |

‘I want to be a machine’: how Warhol flipped the idea that a painting had to be done by hand

Radiohead’s cover art — Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood on an enduring creative partnership

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From Fratt to Frankenthaler — eight trailblazing women artists with prices soaring at auction

Herbert Kasper: the revered fashion designer whose eye for art was as sharp as his tailoring

‘He was a rule-breaker’: how Gustave Caillebotte captured Haussmann’s modern Paris

Whisky galore: Raven Smith delves into Christie’s private sales of sought-after single malts

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Editor’s picks

Wayne Thiebaud is known for his candy-coloured paintings of cakes, pies and ice creams. A step away from these nostalgic, proto-Pop images of diner classics is his 2003 work Tomato Bowl: it recalls 17th-century Dutch still lifes, but retains a confectioner’s palette and a deep sense of serenity

Estimate: $600,000-800,000
1 October, New York

Gerard Houckgeest’s Interior of the New Church in Delft was dramatically innovative when it was painted, in 1650. The artist used two-point perspective to convey the great height of the building while focusing on one of its famous treasures: the tomb of William the Silent by sculptor and architect Hendrik de Keyser

Estimate: €20,000-30,000
until 6 October, Online

A landmark in the history of Op Art, Bridget Riley’s vivid Firebird was the first of her prints to use colour. It was produced in 1971, the year when the art critic Robert Melville wrote, ‘No painter, alive or dead, has ever made us more conscious of our eyes than Bridget Riley’

Estimate: £7,000-10,000
until 28 September, Online

This oak reclining armchair is built for comfort. A product of the Arts and Crafts movement of the second half of the 19th century, it has an adjustable back — held in place by a movable pole — so it can go from upright to snooze position in moments

Estimate: £1,500-2,500
30 September, London

Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga (on left) at the Factory, New York, 1964. Photo: Ugo Mulas. © Ugo Mulas Heirs. All rights reserved. Artwork: © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by DACS, London // Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), Little Rain, 1989. Diptych — oil on canvas. 13 x 18⅞ in (33 x 47.9 cm). Estimate: $300,000-500,000 / Grace Hartigan (1922-2008), Iron On Art, 1978. Oil on canvas. 73⅛ x 79 in (185.7 x 200.7 cm). Estimate: $80,000-120,000 / Alice Neel (1900-1984), Circus, 1932. Oil on canvas. 25⅛ x 20¼ in (63.8 x 51.4 cm). Estimate: $150,000-200,000 / Elaine de Kooning (1919-1989), Echo Wall (Cave #68), 1986/1988. Acrylic on canvas. 84 x 66 in (213.4 x 167.6 cm). Estimate: $100,000-150,000 / Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), Warming the Wires, 1976. Acrylic on canvas. 84 x 114 in (213.4 x 289.6 cm). Estimate: $1,500,000-2,000,000 / Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929), Pumpkins, 1987. Acrylic on canvas. 15 x 17⅞ in (38.1 x 45.4 cm). Estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000. All offered in Post-War to Present on 1 October 2021 at Christie’s in New York // Kasper with models at Lincoln Centre wearing looks from his Fall 1972 collection. Photo: Pierre Scherman / Courtesy of Fairchild Archive // Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), Jeune homme à sa fenêtre, 1876. Oil on canvas. 45⅝ x 31⅞ in. (116 x 81 cm). Price on request. Offered in The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism at Christie's New York and Online, November and December 2021 / Gustave Caillebotte and his dog, Paris, 1892. Photo: Martial Caillebotte

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