Christie's Online Magazine No.282

From: Christie's - Saturday Oct 23, 2021 03:03 pm

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A Rolex in the deep, American Impressionists, Six Ottoman sultans, A selection of Picassos, Covetable carpets, Hong Kong auctioneers, and more |

Naples, 1953: the father and son explorers who took this Rolex 3,150 metres beneath the waves

From Bayezid the Thunderbolt to Selim the Grim: up close with six ruthless Ottoman sultans

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‘The soft breath of summer can almost be felt’: Hassam, Frieseke and their debt to Impressionism

Pablo Picasso in eight chapters: his journey from the Blue Period via Cubism to the Late Paintings

Coveted by tsars and tycoons, connoisseurs and kings — 10 fabled carpets sold at Christie’s

Gift of the gavel: meet our brilliant team of women auctioneers in Hong Kong

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Editor’s picks

This Brigitte Bardot chair was, bizarrely, part of a Nativity scene at Paris’s Orly airport in 1967. A joint project by the artist César and designer Roger Tallon, it also included chairs depicting Charles de Gaulle, Salvador Dalí and others, facing a TV set with a baby on screen

Estimate: €30,000-50,000
2 November, Paris

Richard Mille worked with the golfer Bubba Watson on this 2014 titanium and ceramic watch. The g-force generated by a golf swing that can propel a ball at nearly 200mph is immense, so the watch had to be made as light as possible; it weighs just 4.3 grams

Estimate: $300,000-500,000
until 27 October, Online

This watercolour of a great Indian fruit bat (also known as a flying fox) dates from the late 18th or early 19th century. It is a fine example of the so-called Company School paintings, produced by Indian artists to suit the European tastes of patrons from the East India Company

Estimate: £20,000-30,000
28 October, London

Veterans of office computing will get an instant nostalgia hit from the Macintosh Classic II, a design icon of the early 1990s. Others might be taken aback by how chunky cutting-edge kit used to be. This one is a real rarity, being signed by Apple’s two Steves: Jobs and Wozniak

Estimate: £20,000-30,000
until 26 October, Online

Professor Auguste Piccard and his son Jacques on board the bathyscaphe Trieste. Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images / Rolex Deep Sea Special No. 1, Movement no. 419251, circa 1953. Estimate: CHF2,000,000-4,000,000. Offered in Rare Watches on 8 November 2021 at Christie’s in Geneva // Childe Hassam (1859-1935), Le Crépuscule, 1888-1893. Oil on canvas. 49½ x 76 in (125.7 x 193 cm). Estimate: $1,500,000-2,500,000. Offered in The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism, Evening Sale on 11 November 2021 at Christie's in New York // Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Le repas de l’acrobate, 1905. Gouache, watercolour and pen and India ink on card. 12½ x 9⅛ in (31.6 x 23.3 cm). Estimate: $5,000,000-7,000,000 / Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Mousquetaire à la pipe II, 1968. Oil and Ripolin on canvas. 57½ x 38 in (146 x 96.5 cm). Estimate on request. Both offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 11 November 2021 at Christie’s in New York. Artworks: © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2021

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