Christie's Online Magazine No.301

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David Roentgen furniture, The Biennale in pictures, Hunting meteorites, Paris highlights, Instagram artists, Legends of French dance, and more |

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From YSL to Keith Haring — the collection of dance legends Roland Petit and Zizi Jeanmaire

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Editor’s picks

Irving Penn made an art of fashion photography with his radical, minimalist take on commercial commissions. Veiled Hat (Evelyn Tripp), New York, from 1949, is a stunningly bold assertion of that approach — one that was so successful he ended up shooting more than 160 covers for Vogue

Estimate: $15,000-25,000
until 5 April, Online

The spirit of a previous generation pervades Maurice Denis’s 1909 work Garden in the Snow. Although the artist was associated with the Nabis, Symbolism and Neoclassicism, here he returns to the essence of Impressionism: the fleeting depiction of light in nature

Estimate: €15,000-20,000
31 March, Paris

This Royal Copenhagen part dinner service brings a whole aquarium of piscine life to the table. Alongside two trays with ‘Flora Danica’ botanical prints are a tureen, an oval platter, a strainer and 13 dinner plates, each featuring a different fish or crustacean, with its Latin name on the underside

Estimate: $10,000-15,000
until 5 April, Online

Untitled (Varanasi) is a powerfully atmospheric rendering of the city known as India’s spiritual capital. Painted in the 1980s by Arup Das, it shows the stacked temple rooftops and towers leading down to the reflective waters of the Ganges, where groups of figures gather on the banks in the red sunset

Estimate: $4,000-6,000
until 30 March, Online

Claude Monet and his wife, Alice, St Mark's Square, Venice, 1908. Photo: Bridgeman Images // Keith Haring (1958-1990), For Roland, 1983. Felt pen on cardboard. Estimate: €10,000-15,000 / Tom Keogh (1922-1980), Portrait de Zizi Jeanmaire et Roland Petit, 1955. Oil on canvas. Estimate: €10,000-15,000 / Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008), Pour Zizi que j'aime, 1977. Marker on paper. Estimate: €2,000-3,000. All offered in Collection Roland Petit & Zizi Jeanmaire: un patrimoine pour la danse until 6 April at Christie's Online // Michael Farmer. Photo: Jake Naughton // Max Ernst (1891-1976), Another beautiful morning, c.1953. Oil on masonite. Estimate: €150,000-200,000 / Joan Miró (1893-1983), Sans titre, 1964. Watercolour and India ink on paper. Estimate: €60,000-80,000 / Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955), Église de Marizy-Sainte-Geneviève, Rue Mantalant, (Aisne), c. 1937-38. Oil on canvas. Estimate: €40,000-60,000. All offered in Oeuvres Modernes sur papier / Art Impressionniste et Moderne on 31 March at Christie's in Paris

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