Christie's Online Magazine No.283

From: Christie's - Saturday Oct 30, 2021 03:12 pm

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Marie Antoinette’s bracelets, Beeple gets real, Revolutionary Monet, The Pictures Generation, Royal Oak watches, Radical women artists, and more |

Why Marie Antoinette traded in her lesser jewels, and borrowed a fortune, to own these bracelets

Beeple gets real: the man behind that NFT talks to Christie’s about making his first physical artwork

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The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak — does it have the best back story of all Swiss watches?

Mothers of reinvention: Lee Bontecou and the women who created a new art vocabulary

‘Monet at his most revolutionary, most inventive — and most sensual’: Le bassin d’Argenteuil

The Pictures Generation: how post-Pop artists have responded to a world saturated with images

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Editor’s picks

The 1967 work Ripe is one of Ed Ruscha’s most vividly dramatic word paintings. The artist makes meticulously applied oil paint look like spilt pomegranate juice. Gleaming against its yellow background and packed with jewel-like seeds, the word looks three-dimensional, seeming to stand out from the canvas

Estimate: $18,000,000-22,000,000
11 November, New York

This is a unique ‘vertical’ collection of 107 bottles of Château d’Yquem, each from a different year between 1900 and 2016. Among the many treasures — all of which have been stored in a temperature-controlled French cellar — is the 1921, a legendary vintage now celebrating its centenary

Estimate: CHF200,000-300,000
7 November, Geneva

Sold to benefit the New York City AIDS Memorial park, Landscape is a 2021 work by Nicolas Party. The Swiss artist used his preferred medium of pastel on linen to create an otherworldly vision of lollipop-like trees reflected in a mirror-smooth lake. The effect is both eerie and strangely inviting

Estimate: $300,000-500,000
9 November, New York

This Bell & Ross watch is a unique creation for the biennial Only Watch charity auction. The company, specialising in Swiss-made aviation timepieces, has machined the case from three blocks of sapphire, and the skull dial from six blocks metalised in a colour used in aeronautical instrument panels

Estimate: CHF90,000-110,000
6 November, Geneva

Martin Meytens, Archduchess Marie Antoinette Habsburg-Lotharingen, 1767-68 (detail). Oil on canvas. Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria. Photo: Bridgeman Images // Beeple (b. 1981), HUMAN ONE, 2021. Kinetic video sculpture — four video screens (16k resolution), polished aluminum metal, mahogany wood frame, dual media servers; endless video with corresponding dynamic NFT. 87 x 48 x 48 in (220.1 x 121.9 x 121.9 cm). Estimate on request. Offered in the 21st Century Evening Sale on 9 November 2021 at Christie’s in New York // Lee Bontecou (b. 1931), Untitled, 1959-1960. Welded steel, canvas, fabric, velvet and wire. 42½ x 41½ x 8 in (108 x 105.4 x 20.3 cm). Estimate: $2,000,000-4,000,000. Offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 11 November 2021 at Christie’s in New York // Richard Prince (b. 1949), Untitled (Cowboy), 1997. Ektacolor print. 49¾ x 76 in (126.4 x 193 cm). Estimate: $1,500,000-2,500,000. Offered in the 21st Century Evening Sale on 9 November 2021 at Christie’s in New York

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