Christie's Online Magazine No.295

From: Christie's - Saturday Feb 12, 2022 04:47 pm

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Surrealist Picasso, Remarkable meteorites, A rare Lucian Freud, Collecting Roman glass, Contemporary art from Oceania, and more |

Lucian Freud’s Girl with Closed Eyes: a tender work by the master of painterly scrutiny

‘It’s me all right’ — a coded double portrait of Picasso and his secret lover Marie-Thérèse

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Why contemporary art from Oceania is making waves — and which artists to look out for

Do Valentine’s Day like an artist — inspired by Charles and Ray Eames, Warhol and more…

From prized patinas to sought-after styles: all you need to know about ancient Roman glass

They came from another world: our essential collector’s guide to remarkable meteorites

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Editor’s picks

The French dancer Hippolyte Monplaisir staged a series of ballets in Mexico in the early 1850s, all starring his wife Adèle. It was in Mexico City that another Frenchman abroad, the artist Edouard Pingret — who had trained under Jacques-Louis David — made this delicate pastel portrait of the ballerina

Estimate: $15,000-20,000
until 18 February, Online

This doghouse was once the humble abode of a German shepherd named Roky in the town of Aguas Zarcas, Costa Rica. During a famous meteorite shower there on 23 April 2019, one smashed through the metal roof of Roky’s kennel, narrowly missing him and making his home a collector’s item

Estimate: $200,000-300,000
until 23 February, Online

John Walsh’s Marakihau, painted in 2021, depicts a sea monster from Maori myth. Half giant, half fish, it has a huge hollow tongue capable of sucking in a whole ship. Yet no such violence is suggested by the creature in the painting, which has an eerie, ethereal beauty

Estimate: €15,000-24,000
until 14 February, Online

Here’s your chance to own a piece of extraterrestrial real estate. This complete slice of the planet Mars found its way to Earth as part of a chunk of rock smashed off the surface of the Red Planet by an asteroid strike. Meteor hunters discovered it in 2020 in the Sahara Desert

Estimate: $6,000-9,000
until 23 February, Online

Lucian Freud (1922-2011), Girl with Closed Eyes, 1986-87. Oil on canvas. Estimate: £10,000,000-15,000,000. Offered in the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 1 March 2022 at Christie’s in London // Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), La fenêtre ouverte, 1929. Oil on canvas. Estimate: £14,000,000-24,000,000. Offered in The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale on 1 March 2022 at Christie’s in London. Artwork: © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2022 // John Pule (b.1962), We Stayed All Day, 2021. Oil, varnish, ink, pastel and enamel paint on canvas. 59 x 59¼ in (150 x 150.5 cm). Estimate: €20,000-30,000 / Nikau Hindin (b. 1991), Ki Ngā Rangi Tūhāhā III / To the Upper Realms III, 2021. Red ochre (Kōkōwai), yellow ochre (Ōhiwa kōwhai ) and soot (Ngārahu) on barkcloth (aute). 45½ x 24½ in (115.5 x 61.5 cm). Estimate: €7,000-10,000. Both offered in OCEANIA NOW : Contemporary Art from the Pacific | Online, until 1 March 2022 // Photo mural of Charles and Ray Eames on exhibit at LACMA. Photo: Ken Lubas/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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