Christie's Online Magazine No.291

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C19 American art, European exhibitions, Folk treasures, Russian art, Pierre Durand, Americana Week highlights, and more |

The artisan/artist couple who created a treasure trove of American cultural heritage

Our International Director of Russian Art muses on Mashkov, Moscow — and mushrooming

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From Bourgeois in Basel to Mondrian in Milan: our pick of Europe’s top exhibitions in 2022

How American artists of the 19th century opened the eyes of the world to an uncharted land

Highlights of Americana week: from this portrait of Washington to an early plan of New York

‘Everybody had something to say about it’: the eclectic Fifth Avenue home of Pierre Durand

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Editor’s picks

We don’t know exactly when Giovanni Battista Tiepolo made this study of a female head, which resembles many of the saints and goddesses in his paintings. But the sitter has been identified as the Venetian artist’s favourite model, Cristina, the daughter of a gondolier

Estimate: $20,000-30,000
until 28 January, Online

Dame Laura Knight painted In the Ring around 1930, after joining Carmo’s Circus on tour. It depicts the diminutive Hungarian trainer Captain Anker with Apollo (on hind legs) and Pinto. Apollo had been bought as lion meat, but Anker spotted the horse’s star quality and put a stop to that

Estimate: £70,000-100,000
26 January, London

You Jin’s 2014 oil on canvas The Secret Garden features many of the elements that make his work so memorable. Saturated colour, dizzying landscapes and winding stairways often figure in his paintings, here conjuring up a fantastical glass pavilion amid towering bamboo plants

Estimate: HK$150,000-260,000
until 21 January, Online

This 19th-century American angel weathervane has flown around the world. Having passed from one leading collector to another, it appeared in the US Pavilion at the 1970 World Exposition in Japan. Later it was owned by Mike Nichols, the Oscar-winning director of The Graduate and many other films

Estimate: $60,000-90,000
20 January, New York

Edvard Munch, Winter Landscape, 1915. Albertina Museum, Vienna — The Batliner Collection. Photo: © The Albertina Museum, Vienna / Louise Bourgeois, Extreme Tension, 2007. Etching and mixed media on paper (11 panels of varied dimensions). 148.6 x 162.6 cm. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by ProLitteris and VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Benjamin Shiff / Charles Ray, Unbaled Truck, 2021. 1948 Chevy Truck. 193 x 183 x 529 cm. © Charles Ray, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo: Joshua White / Raphael, The Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist (The Garvagh Madonna), circa 1509-10. Oil on wood. 38.9 x 32.9 cm. Photo: © The National Gallery, London / Samuel van Hoogstraten, Trompe l'Oeil Still Life, 1666-1678. Oil on canvas. 63 x 79 cm. Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle. Photo: © Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe / Donatello, David, circa 1435-1440. Bronze with gilding traces. 155 x 65 x 60 cm. Firenze, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, inv. Bronzi 95

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