Christie's Online Magazine No.292

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Outsider art, KAWS, Gucci in 10 bags, The Herbert Foundation, A Lake Geneva villa, Global exhibitions for 2022, and more |

Outsider art’s ultimate insider: the New Orleans curator who championed self-taught artists

Designer François-Joseph Graf: how I decorated a late 19th-century villa on Lake Geneva

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From GG monogram to horsebit motif: a history of Gucci design and craftsmanship in 10 bags

‘The world’s most visible artist’: KAWS reveals the digital magic helping his art reach millions

‘It was never about decoration or investment’: Anton Herbert’s passion for ‘ways of thinking’

The standout exhibitions of 2022 in Asia, South America, Australia and the Middle East

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Editor’s picks

Born in the Bahamas in 1920, Amos Ferguson was a house painter before he became an artist, the urge to change his profession having come from a dream his nephew described to him. Angular House, from 1986, has a visionary power and is radiant with Caribbean light

Estimate: $3,000-5,000
3 February, New York

Reading is a typically understated, introspective work by the Danish artist Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (1863-1935). His Vermeer-like interiors, often with a solitary figure, date from a time of industrialisation, when the home represented a quiet refuge from the tumult of modernity

Estimate: $25,000-30,000
27 January, New York

There is a marine theme to this Chinese porcelain ewer and basin from the early 18th century. Inspired by European metalwork, the ewer is styled as a nautilus shell in periwinkle blue and the basin as a scallop shell. With fine gilt detailing, they make a superb pair

Estimate: $15,000-20,000
until 2 February, Online

Paintings of the Bay of Naples were bestsellers in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially those featuring its famous volcano. In vividly dramatic gouaches such as these four views of Vesuvius erupting at night, the artist Camillo de Vito achieved total mastery of the form

Estimate: $6,000-8,000
until 28 January, Online

Villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. Photo: Grégoire Gardette // KAWS, SEEING, 2022, augmented reality sculpture at Serpentine North. Courtesy of KAWS and Acute Art // Anton and Annick Herbert with Carl Andre’s 64 Lead Square (1969), at the Konrad Fischer gallery in Düsseldorf, 1973. Artwork: © Carl Andre/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2022. Photo: Courtesy of Herbert Foundation // Helen Frankenthaler, Grand Tour, 1983. Acrylic on canvas. 246 x 362 cm. Gift of Maureen and Marshall Cogan, New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum. B85.0936. © 2022 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: © The Israel Museum Jerusalem / Zhao Zhao, Chinese Ladders, 2019. White marble. Variable size. © Zhao Zhao, Tang Contemporary Art / Fang Lijun, 1995.2. Oil on canvas. M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation. © Fang Lijun / Jeffrey Smart, The construction fence, 1978, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Gift of Eva Besen and Marc Besen AO 2001. © The Estate of Jeffrey Smart / Caravaggio, The Musicians, 1597. Oil on canvas. 92.1 x 118.4 cm. Rogers Fund, 1952 / 52.81. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Nasser AlSalem’s installation Amma Qabel at Desert X AlUla. Photo: Lance Gerber, courtesy of the artist and Athr Gallery and Desert X AlUla / Maria Lassnig, Zwei Arten zu sein (Doppelselbstporträt) — Two Ways of Being (Double Self-Portrait), 2000. Oil on canvas. 100 x 125 cm. © Maria Lassnig Foundation

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