Christie's Online Magazine No.294

From: Christie's - Saturday Feb 05, 2022 04:06 pm

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Franz Marc’s The Foxes, The Shapiro Collection of photographs, African American artists, Works by architect Will Alsop, Valentine’s gifts, Collectors on Instagram, and more |

Franz Marc’s The Foxes: why the German painter thought of art as ‘the bridge to the spirit world’

Valentine’s Day: stuck for ideas? We have a few, from ruby earrings to sapphire cufflinks

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From the Jordan D. Schnitzer collection — African American artists who ‘teach us how to see’

‘One of the reasons for painting is that you’re not in control’: artworks by architect Will Alsop

Collectors on Instagram: our updated guide to the art-world influencers to be following now

‘Photographs are an addiction’: hooked by a Cindy Sherman bought for ‘about $100’ in 1985

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Editor’s picks

In 1971 the Shah of Iran had a ‘tent city’ built in ancient Persepolis to host events marking 2,500 years of the Persian Empire. This gold ‘Lion of Persepolis’ pendant by Van Cleef & Arpels was one of a limited number presented to VIP guests at a grand charity ball held there that year

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

In her 1997 painting Sandía, Ana Mercedes Hoyos returned to one of her favourite subjects. The Colombian artist was drawn to the fruit found in stalls by the beach in Cartagena or on the streets of Bogotá. Here, slices of watermelon loom large in the canvas, like otherworldly pink hills in a dream landscape

Estimate: $20,000-25,000
until 18 February, Online

The London firm of Newton & Son made this pair of library globes in 1841. The terrestrial globe is ‘delineated from the observations of the most esteemed navigators’, while its celestial twin draws on the work of scientist Francis Wollaston, showing ‘all the Stars, Nebulae and Clusters’ he recorded

Estimate: £15,000-25,000
until 10 February, Online

Edward Hodges Baily is best known for carving the figure of Lord Nelson on his column in Trafalgar Square. He also modelled this William IV inkstand for the silversmiths Storr and Mortimer in 1836, evoking maritime myth in his depiction of the sea deity Triton blowing a conch shell

Estimate: £7,000-10,000
until 10 February, Online

Portrait of Franz Marc, 1913. Photo: © Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See // Will Alsop’s Sharp Centre for Design, Toronto. Photo: Alamy Stock Image / William Alsop (1947-2018), Untitled (Red Composition), 1990s. Acrylic and graphite on canvas. Estimate: £5,000-7,000. Offered in First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online, 23 February-9 March 2022 // Diane Arbus, Young man and his girlfriend with hot dogs in the park, NYC, 1971. Gelatin silver print. Estimate: £6,000-8,000 / Elger Esser, Cap d’Antifer, Frankreich, 2000. Estimate: £12,000-18,000 / Zanele Muholi, Sosi Molotsane, Yeoville, Johannesburg (from the Faces and Phases series), 2011. Gelatin silver print. Estimate: £8,000-10,000 / William Eggleston, Untitled (Frond Outside Building) from the Los Alamos Project 1964-74. Estimate: £8,000-12,000 / Pieter Hugo, Mohammed Rabiu with Jamis, Ibusa, Nigeria, 2007. Colour coupler print. Estimate: £15,000-25,000 / Cindy Sherman, Untitled (From Merce Cunningham Dance Company: 50th Anniversary), 2003. Digital colour coupler print. Estimate: £4,000-6,000. All works offered in First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online, 23 February-9 March 2022 // (Fred Braithwaite) Fab 5 Freddy (b. 1959), Jack Johnson I, edition 10/18, 2018. Exhibited in Witness to this Game: Selections from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation until 25 March 2022 at Christie's in San Francisco

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