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Warhol and Basquiat’s ‘marriage’, Fabergé, Edward Hopper, Modern masters at $50k, Why artists paint people, Tastemaker Molly Mahon, and more |
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‘Like some crazy art-world marriage’ — the special bond between Warhol and Basquiat
 
 
Harry Woolf and Fabergé: how one man’s ‘hobby’ grew to rival royal and institutional collections
 
‘Anyone who looks at a Hopper becomes involved’ — the life and career of an American icon
 
 
From candelabra to commodes: designer Molly Mahon fashions vignettes with her favourite lots
 
 
‘I have tried to assert the eternal importance of the human being’: why artists paint people
 
 
Fancy a bargain? Eight works by Picasso, Derain, Ernst and more with estimates under $50k
 
 
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Marie Laurencin was a leading light in the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century. It was a male-dominated world, to which she reacted by producing art focused on female subjects. Head of a Woman is a brilliant example of the mysterious, introspective figures she painted
 
Estimate: $30,000-50,000
13 November, New York
 
 
 
 
 
Born in 1881, Seaman Schepps rose from humble origins on New York’s Lower East Side to become ‘America’s court jeweller’. This 1950s multi-gem gold necklace is typical of his maverick style: a mix of sizes and types of stone — emeralds, sapphires, rubies, aquamarine, quartz — artfully harmonised
 
Estimate: CHF14,000-22,000
until 11 November, Online
 
 
 
 
 
The work of Philip-Lorca diCorcia may look like raw street photography, but it is in fact meticulously staged and lit. W, March 2000, #12 recalls the Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks — and a number of diCorcia’s works were included in a 2012 Hopper retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris
 
Estimate: €50,000-70,000
9 November, Paris
 
 
 
 
 
This travel chest, dating from the mid-18th century, belonged to the daughters of Louis XV. It is made of Morocco leather, probably chosen by the king’s fourth daughter, Madame Marie-Adélaïde de France. She was a noted bibliophile, with a library of 10,000 volumes bound in the same material
 
Estimate: £15,000-25,000
10 November, London
 
 
 
 
 
 
          
 
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Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, Area nightclub, New York, 1984. Photo: Ron Galella/Getty Images // Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Two Puritans, 1945 (detail). Oil on canvas. 30 x 40 in (76.2 x 101.6 cm). Estimate: $10,000,000-15,000,000. Offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 11 November 2021 at Christie’s in New York // Claire Tabouret (b. 1981), The Stains (Garnet), 2017. Acrylic on panel. 24 x 18 in (61 x 45.7 cm). Estimate: $50,000-70,000 / Alice Neel (1900-1984), Untitled, 1940. Oil on canvas. 30⅛ x 24 in (76.5 x 62 cm). Estimate: $250,000-350,000. Both offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 12 November 2021 at Christie’s in New York // André Derain (1880-1954), Voiliers, 1905. Watercolour and brush and India ink on paper. 7½ x 11½ in (18 x 29.2 cm). Estimate: $40,000-60,000. Offered in the Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper Sale on 13 November 2021 at Christie’s in New York