Christie's Online Magazine No.281

From: Christie's - Saturday Oct 16, 2021 03:07 pm

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London 20/21 sale tops £64 million, Three Van Goghs, A Monet garden, St Ives artists, Iraqi art, Alain Bouret Collection, and more |

Basquiat, Anderson, Hockney push London 20th/21st Century Evening Sale past £64 million

‘I perhaps owe it to flowers that I became a painter’: how Monet found inspiration in the garden

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Five years in Baghdad: the American couple who became patrons of the Iraqi art scene

‘A long way from the Left Bank’: why 1950s British artists went to St Ives to drink, argue and paint

Van Gogh — three works from three consecutive years that tell the story of his mature period

The collection of Alain Bouret: from Picasso, Dubuffet and de Staël to Bury, Förg and Hartung

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Editor’s picks

Edouard Manet’s portrait of his niece Julie dates from 1882, the same year he painted his late masterpiece, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. Julie was the child of his brother Eugène and the artist Berthe Morisot, and her diaries would later be published as Growing Up with the Impressionists

Estimate: €4,000,000-6,000,000
21 October, Paris

The relationship between humans and animals fascinated Elisabeth Frink. Horses and hounds often appear in her work — as do wild animals, from badgers to baboons. Her 1981 sculpture Barking Dog may have been inspired by the Hungarian Vizsla gun dogs her husband kept at their home in Dorset

Estimate: £100,000-150,000
21 October, London

The Bridge at Aix-en-Provence, from 1948, is one of Winston Churchill’s most accomplished paintings, depicting a scene that was also the subject of two works by Cézanne. In 1955, Churchill presented it to his friend Willy Sax, director of the family-run Swiss company that made his favourite oil paints

Estimate: £1,500,000-2,500,000
20 October, London

Julia Warhola collaborated with her Pop artist son in 1957 to produce the book Holy Cats by Andy Warhol’s Mother. Dedicated to their late pet Hester, it consists of 21 offset lithographs featuring cats and angels in a feline heaven, with text in Warhola’s jaunty calligraphic style

Estimate: $3,000-5,000
21 October, New York

Claude Monet (1840-1926), Au Jardin, la famille de l’artiste, 1875. Oil on canvas. 23¾ x 31½ in (60.5 x 80 cm). Estimate: $12,000,000-18,000,000. Offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 11 November 2021 at Christie's in New York // Orin and Rita Parker at Ctesiphon. Photo: Latif el Ani Collection, courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation / Dia Al-Azzawi (b. 1939), Man and Woman, 1964. Oil on canvas. 26 x 21½ in (66 x 54.6 cm). Estimate: £40,000-60,000 / Faeq Hassan (1914-1992), Portrait of Rita Parker, 1965. Oil on canvas. 30 x 25 in (76.2 x 63.5 cm). Estimate: £5,000-7,000 / Hafidh Al-Droubi (1914-1991), Kadhimain Alley, 1963. Oil on canvas. 32 x 14 in (81.3 x 35.5 cm). Estimate: £12,000-18,000. All offered in Middle Eastern 20th and 21st Century Art, 20 October-3 November 2021 at Christie’s Online // Crypt Group artists, St Ives, 1940s. Unknown photographer. Tate // Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Meule de blé, June 1888. Gouache, watercolour, pen and brush and black ink over pencil on paper. 19 x 23¾ in (48.5 x 60.4 cm). Estimate: $20,000,000-30,000,000. Offered in The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism on 11 November 2021 at Christie’s in New York // Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985), Cycliste, 1944. Gouache and ink on paper. 8⅞ x 6¾ in (22.5 x 17 cm). Estimate: €70,000-100,000 / Pol Bury (1922-2005), 41 boules noires sur un fond noir, 2004. Painted cork balls on painted panel and electrical motor. 48 x 31½ x 3⅞ in (122 x 80 x 10 cm). Estimate: €30,000-50,000 / Pol Bury (1922-2005), 42 boules rouges sur un fond rouge, 2004. Painted cork balls on painted board and electric motor. 48 x 31½ x 3⅞ in (122 x 80 x 10 cm). Estimate: €30,000-50,000 / Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955), Paysage, 1952. Oil on board. 11 x 13 in (28 x 33 cm). Estimate: €250,000-350,000 / Hans Hartung (1904-1989), T 1964 - e 46, 1964. Acrylic on canvas. 23⅝ x 31⅞ in (60 x 81 cm). Estimate: €70,000-100,000. All offered in Collection Alain Bouret on 21 October 2021 at Christie’s in Paris

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