Christie's Online Magazine No.298

From: Christie's - Saturday Mar 05, 2022 04:12 pm

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Shanghai to London sale series tops £249m, Japanese Buddhist art, Hockney’s iPad, Chantecler jewellery, British watercolourists, Islamic art, and more |

New records set for 10 artists as 20th/21st Century: Shanghai to London sale series tops £249m

Japanese Buddhist art: how and what to collect, from paintings to sculptures, statues and scrolls

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Move over, Wordsworth: British watercolourists who embraced Romanticism with their brushes

Chantecler: the Capri jewellers whose free-spirited take on la dolce vita dazzled Jackie Onassis

Hockney and his iPad: why the artist is still ‘pushing through the boundaries of what fine art is’

Wonders to behold: the stories behind a dozen stunning works of Islamic art sold at Christie’s

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Editor’s picks

Davis Cone has devoted most of his career to painting the Art Deco cinemas of America in a startling Photorealist style. Time Theatre, from 1983, depicts a classic ‘popcorn palace’ built in 1938 in Mattoon, Illinois, with every last detail of marquee lettering, metalwork, tiling and neon minutely recorded

Estimate: $25,000-35,000
10 March, New York

Born in the Philippines in 1988 and raised in Japan, Maria Farrar moved to London at the age of 15. The abiding influence of Japanese calligraphy is evident in her 2016 painting Untitled, in which figures at a dinner party are vividly depicted in sparse, fluid brushstrokes

Estimate: £6,000-8,000
until 9 March, Online

The Swiss watchmaker Ulysse Nardin has been known for its marine chronometers since it was founded in 1846. The company’s connection with maritime history is celebrated in this limited-edition San Marco Porto di Venezia watch, showing gondolas by the Rialto bridge on Venice’s Grand Canal

Estimate: €8,000-14,000
until 10 March, Online

Bartending meets architecture and theatre in this 1930s ‘Manhattan’ cocktail set. Created by Norman Bel Geddes, who was acclaimed for his stage sets as well as his industrial designs, it features a chrome-plated skyscraper of a shaker with matching stemmed cups and a plaza-like stepped tray

Estimate: $5,000-7,000
until 11 March, Online

David Hockney (b. 1937), The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 24 April 2011, 2011. Image: 49¾ x 37½ in (1264 x 953 mm). Sheet: 55 x 41½ in (1397 x 1054 mm). Estimate: $70,000-100,000 // David Hockney (b. 1937), Untitled No. 14 from The Yosemite Suite, 2010. Image: 32 x 24 in (813 x 610 mm). Sheet: 36⅞ x 27⅞ in (937 x 708 mm). Estimate: $70,000-100,000. Both offered in Contemporary Edition on 9 March 2022 at Christie’s in New York // Jacqueline Onassis with Chantecler co-founders Salvatore Aprea (centre) and Pietro Capuano (right), Capri, 1970. Photo: Ron Galella / Getty Images

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