Christie's Online Magazine No.308

From: Christie's - Saturday May 14, 2022 03:00 pm

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20/21st Century sales soar past $1bn, Imperial porcelain, Fashion photography, O’Keeffe and Dove, Modern British art, The American West on canvas, and more |

Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn makes auction history as 20/21st Century sales soar beyond $1bn

Imperial porcelain from 18th-century China: a ‘kaleidoscopic’ array of 28 Qing-dynasty pieces

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‘The nation owes you a great debt’: the pioneering artists who documented the American West

From Modern British art to blue john vases: the eclectic passions of a Stock Exchange chairman

How Georgia O’Keeffe found ‘something of my own’ through friendship with Arthur Dove

A century of fashion — as told by the cameras of Horst, Faurer, Penn, Parkinson and Newton

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Editor’s picks

There’s an intriguing blend of Realism and Neoclassicism in Emile-Auguste Hublin’s Le chemin du marché (Finistère), from 1881. The two young women shown bringing produce to a market in Brittany are dressed in humble clothes, but the main figure has the poise of a Greek sculpture

Estimate: €30,000-40,000
18 May, Paris

This Art Nouveau butterfly brooch was once part of Elizabeth Taylor’s fabled jewellery collection. Made by Boucheron in 1900, it is a multi-gem creation of aquamarine, opal, emeralds, rubies and a diamond in a gold setting, with translucent panels of enamel in the delicate wings

Estimate: CHF 30,000-50,000
until 18 May, Online

Writer and artist Ludwig Bemelmans is famous for the rhyming children’s book Madeline and its sequels. In this original illustration from Madeline’s Rescue, published in 1953, the young heroine and her friends search for their missing pet dog: ‘They went looking high and low. And every place a dog might go’

Estimate: $30,000-50,000
17 May, New York

Walt Disney characters began to appear in the work of Swiss watchmaker Gérald Genta in the 1980s. In this 18ct gold Donald Duck watch, dating from around 2000, the hour is shown at the bottom of the dial, while Donald’s baseball bat points to the minute

Estimate: CHF 4,000-6,000
until 17 May, Online

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, 1964. © 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc / Licensed by DACS London // Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), Corymb, 1959. Bronze with a light green patina. 11½ in (29.2 cm) high. Estimate: £60,000-£80,000 / Peter Lanyon (1918-1964), Two Close, 1962. Oil on canvas. 48 x 36 in (121.9 x 91.4 cm). Estimate: £180,000-250,000. Both offered in The Collection of Sir Nicholas Goodison - British Art: Innovation and Craftsmanship on 25 May 2022 at Christie’s in London // Alfred Stieglitz, Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918. Platinum print / Alfred Stieglitz, Portrait of Arthur G. Dove, 1912. Public domain images from The Art Institute of Chicago and the Alfred Stieglitz Collection. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), Abstraction, 1917. Watercolour on paper. 15¾ x 10⅞ in (40 x 27.6 cm). Estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000 / Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946), March, April, 1929. Pastel on canvas. 20 x 20 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm). Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000. Both offered in American Art on 17 May 2022 at Christie’s in New York // Horst P. Horst (1906-1999), Mainbocher Corset, Paris, 1939. Gelatin silver print. 11⅞ x 9⅛ in (30.2 x 23.3 cm). Estimate: €10,000-12,000 / Louis Faurer (1916-2001), Bowing for the Vogue Collections, Paris, 1972, for French Vogue, March 1973. Gelatin silver print. 15¾ x 11⅘ in (40 x 30 cm). Estimate: €10,000-15,000. Both offered in Photographies on 24 May at Christie’s in Paris

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