Christie's Online Magazine No.293

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Bacon at the RA, Collecting Sanyu, Best art books of 2022, Images of sport, Exhibitions in North America, A writer’s art journey, and more |

From Beeple to Vermeer, Van Gogh to YSL — the best art books of 2022 to pre-order now

Meet the world’s top collector of works by Chinese émigré artists — including ‘50 or 60’ by Sanyu

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‘We are meat, we are potential carcasses’: Francis Bacon and his obsession with our animal spirit

Eyes on the prize: with the 2022 Winter Olympics upon us, we look at images of sporting glory

‘Suddenly I was alone with a Leonardo’: writer Stephen Jones on his art journey at Christie’s

For your diary: Holbein in New York, Poussin in LA, and more art shows across North America

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Editor’s picks

Clementine Hunter worked as a cotton-picker, housekeeper and cook before learning to paint in her mid-fifties. By the time she died, in 1988 at the age of 100, she had produced more than 5,000 works — including Baptismal Scene from 1967 — inspired by life on the Cane River in rural Louisiana

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

This black jade and gold bangle bracelet has all the charisma one would expect of its designer, Angela Cummings. Having been a star name at Tiffany & Co. for years, she set up on her own in 1984, producing many such dynamic pieces in her strong, distinctively graphic style

Estimate: $10,000-15,000
until 9 February, Online

Dating from the first half of the 19th century, these two Chinese porcelain roosters are mirror images of one another. Both perch on rocky outcrops, clearly in mid-crow with their heads thrown back and beaks open. But what really makes them stand out is their delicately multicoloured plumage

Estimate: $10,000-15,000
until 2 February, Online

John Leacock was only 15 when he left England for Madeira in 1741, becoming an apprentice at a wine shipping firm before starting his own company. This Leacock’s Malvazia Solera 1808 is a rare survival; an example tasted in 2015 was said to have ‘cherry candy on the nose’

Estimate: $1,600-2,400
until 1 February, Online

Sanyu (1901-1966), Reclining Pink Nude, 1930s. Photo: Tina Keng Gallery // Francis Bacon, 1952. Photo: John Deakin / Vogue © The Condé Nast Publications Ltd. Francis Bacon, Head I, 1948. Oil and tempera on board, 100.3 x 74.9 cm. Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Richard S. Zeisler, 2007 (2007.247.1). Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS /Artimage 2021 // ALO (Charles Hallo 1884-1969), Bobsleigh (detail). Lithograph in colours; backed on linen. Sold for £3,000 on 20 February 2008 at Christie’s in London // Paul Cézanne, Auvers, Panoramic View, 1873-75. Courtesy of the AIC / Meret Oppenheim, Ma gouvernante — My Nurse — Mein Kindermadchen, 1936-1967. Metal plate, shoes, string, and paper. Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Copyrighted Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Pro Litteris, Zurich. Courtesy of the Menil Collection / Aaron Douglas, Into Bondage, 1936. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection. © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art / Nicolas Poussin, Hymenaeus Disguised as a Woman During an Offering to Priapus, 1634-38. Oil on canvas. Collection Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand. Photo: Alexandre Leão. Courtesy of the Getty Museum / Sean Scully, Black Blue Window, 2021. Oil on aluminium. 7 ft 1 in x 6 ft 3 in. Collection of the artist. Image courtesy of the artist. Photographer: Elisabeth Bernstein; © Sean Scully. Courtesy of the PMA

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