Christie's Online Magazine No.306

From: Christie's - Saturday Apr 30, 2022 03:12 pm

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Hitchcock and Klee, The Red Cross Diamond, Best of the Biennale, Hector the dinosaur, Ghanaian artists, Monet, and more |

‘Without America, I would have been ruined’: how Paul Durand-Ruel promoted Monet in the US

Offered for the third time in 104 years: the 205-carat diamond raising funds for the Red Cross

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Meet Hector, the star of Jurassic Park and the most complete Deinonychus skeleton yet found

Spellbound: Alfred Hitchcock and the Klee watercolour he decided he couldn’t live without

Hot right now: why Ghanaian artists, from El Anatsui to Yaw Owusu, are having a moment

Best of the Biennale: from prize-winner Simone Leigh of the US to Ukraine’s tower of sandbags

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Editor’s picks

Landscape meets abstraction in Spins from Swiss, a 2017 painting by the American artist Shara Hughes. An impossible vista of dizzying peaks, gorges, roads, forests and waterfalls seems to dissolve at certain points into an exuberant play of colour and form for their own sake

Estimate: $500,000-700,000
10 May, New York

‘A work of art must be entirely conceived and shaped by the mind before its execution,’ said Max Bill. ‘We want to exclude lyricism, drama, symbolism.’ The purity espoused by the Swiss artist, architect and designer is perfectly embodied in the gilded brass ribbon of his 1973 work Gold Bow

Estimate: €18,000-25,000
until 3 May, Online

Yoshitomo Nara is best known for his cartoon-like images of children, whether serene, sinister, subversive or celebratory. Lone Star, a pencil drawing from 2013, shows one such figure holding a star with a look of wide-eyed amazement. Its sale is in aid of Doctors Without Borders USA

Estimate: $100,000-150,000
13 May, New York

This Cartier multi-gem sautoir, or long necklace, is set apart by its majestic tiger’s-head pendant. In a setting of 18ct gold, the big cat’s features are modelled in brown, orange, yellow and white diamonds, with onyx panels for stripes and two pear-shaped emeralds for its glowing eyes

Estimate: CHF 125,000-200,000
11 May, Geneva

Alfred Hitchcock, 1956. Photo: Baron/Hulton Archive/Getty Images // El Anatsui (b. 1944), TT, 2021. Found aluminium bottle caps and copper wire. 120½ x 254 in (306.2 x 645 cm) / Isshaq Ismail (b. 1989), Sentiments 17, 2021. Acrylic on canvas. 60 x 49⅝ in (152.4 x 126.1 cm) / Yaw Owusu (b. 1992), Determined Measures, 2021. Stainless steel, copper, US pennies, Ghana pesewas, wood. 40 x 42 x 3 in (101.6 x 106.7 x 7.7 cm). All offered in Material Earth, a selling exhibition in collaboration with Efie Gallery, viewing until 13 May 2022 at Christie’s in London // Aerial view of Venice. Photo: Alamy Stock Photo

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Christie's Online Magazine No.306