Christie's Online Magazine No.304

From: Christie's - Saturday Apr 16, 2022 03:04 pm

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Animals in art, Maurice Sendak, How to do the Biennale, Degas and the ballet, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Memories of Kyiv, and more |

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Animals in art — as Earth Day nears, we celebrate some of the creatures who share our world

Memories of Kyiv: curator Peter Doroshenko reflects on his years immersed in Ukraine’s art scene

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Dance sensations: Edgar Degas and the ballerinas that have captivated art lovers for decades

Wild things — books owned by Maurice Sendak, from Beatrix Potter to the Brothers Grimm

Complex, subtle, profound: what makes Domaine de la Romanée-Conti the world’s most wanted

‘Start with a coffee at Paradiso’: our Deputy Chairman, Italy, on how best to enjoy the Biennale

Editor’s picks

In this 1899 Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph, the dancer Jane Avril throws up her arms in mock horror at a snake printed on her dress. The unusual suppleness suggested by the image was not exaggerated: as one admirer observed, Avril ‘could turn over backwards until she brushed the floor with her shoulders’

Estimate: $30,000-50,000
22 April, New York

British-born artist Sam Cox, better known as Mr Doodle, has referred to his style as ‘graffiti spaghetti’. In his 2018 work Friendly Bunch, half a dozen beaming cartoon characters, in various fantastical forms, seem to emerge from the squiggles of acrylic he applies to his canvas

Estimate: HK$15,000-30,000
until 22 April, Online

Romain Jerome watches are known for their allusions to design icons, from the Titanic to Apollo 11. This Space Invaders watch celebrates the classic video game, with a dial covered in ranks of pixelated alien craft, one of which has just been hit by a blast from the ship below

Estimate: HK$50,000-100,000
until 20 April, Online

Familiar objects take on a quality of epic unease in Rob Scholte’s 1986 painting Overspel (Adultery). The artist suggests the fracture between a couple through a surreal image — on a vast, two-metre-high canvas — of a cup of coffee sliced in half and placed on two saucers

Estimate: €10,000-15,000
until 26 April, Online

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Peter Beard (1938-2020), One-Year-Old Mountain Gorilla, Rwanda, 1984. Unique chromogenic print, printed c. 1999. Image/sheet: 40¾ x 69¾ in (103.5 x 177.2 cm). © 2022 Peter Beard / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London // Bianca Arrivabene in Venice. Photo: Kate Martin