Christie's Online Magazine No.289

From: Christie's - Saturday Dec 11, 2021 04:05 pm

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Artists’ houses, Jasper Johns, The Barbizon school, Boivin jewels, Gold boxes, Caroline Issa’s art wish list, and more |

Home is where the art is: artists’ houses that are themselves works of art, from Kahlo to O’Keeffe

Jasper Johns — why is his latest retrospective in New York and Philadelphia at the same time?

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Boivin — how these brilliant creations established the maison as ‘jeweller of the intelligentsia’

All about Barbizon: the village where Corot and his cohorts led a quiet revolution in painting

‘Let’s try to find you a Hatoum’: we advise style guru Caroline Issa on realising her art wish list

Can you tell your tabatière from your bonbonnière? Everything you need to know about gold boxes

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Editor’s picks

Sir George Clausen painted The Breakfast Table during the First World War, in which his son was serving and his daughter had lost her fiancé. This quietly radiant evocation of a sunlit room in the artist’s London home feels like a brief respite from the trauma and upheaval of the time

Estimate: £30,000-50,000
until 16 December, Online

‘I have never wanted to draw what other people would suggest,’ the Spanish artist Edgar Plans has said. His 2018 work Untitled, in which a masked, caped cartoon mouse holds two paintbrushes, is one of his ‘Animal Hero’ pieces, inspired by comics and street art

Estimate: $8,000-12,000
until 15 December, Online

Crafted by Breguet, this gold pocket watch dates from around 1840. Both the inner and outer cases are beautifully decorated with polychrome enamel maps showing parts of Europe and modern-day Turkey that were then under Ottoman rule — as well as independent Greece and the heel of Italy

Estimate: CHF20,000-30,000
until 14 December, Online

This miniature on vellum depicts a sixth-century clash between the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia and its neighbour Thuringia. Two jousting knights are portrayed in gilded detail, while sword-wielding figures in silhouette suggest the battle raging behind. It was painted around 1460 by the Master of Evert van Soudenbalch

Estimate: £18,000-25,000
15 December, London

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Abiquiú sitting room, 2019. Photo: Krysta Jabczenski. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. // Jack Shear, Jasper Johns, 1992. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 35.4 x 28.1 cm, image: 25.4 x 25.4 cm. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist 2017.60. © Jack Shear // Jasper Johns, Target with Four Faces, 1955. Encaustic and collage on canvas with objects (75.6 x 66 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Scull 8.1958. © Jasper Johns / VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art until 13 February 2022

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