Christie's Online Magazine No.309

From: Christie's - Saturday May 21, 2022 03:39 pm

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The Great Escape Rolex, Giuseppe Eskenazi, Beautiful barometers, Jean Dunand, William S. Reese Americana, Blackness in design, and more |

Vision, passion, breathtaking buys: how this man became the world’s prime dealer in Asian art

‘It brings contrast, power and depth’ — Perriand, Prouvé, and the beauty of blackness in design

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‘So simple, yet so chic’: why Jean Dunand’s bravura creations were adored by Warhol and YSL

Fair-weather friends — discover the difference between ‘aneroid’, ‘wheel’ and ‘angle’ barometers

Americana owned by William S. Reese: from tales of witch trials to Boston’s Bloody Massacre

How this Rolex ref. 3525 and its owner survived the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in 1944

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Editor’s picks

‘I would like to be able to paint a crowd — that abstract entity referred to by the sociologists as the masses.’ In 1967, three years after writing those words, Keith Vaughan produced Crowd Assembling I, a work that captures the simmering tension and latent danger of a jostling mob

Estimate: £40,000-60,000
25 May, London

From the mouth of the most fearsome dinosaur of them all comes this very rare complete Tyrannosaurus rex tooth. The largest predator ever to have roamed the Earth, T. rex stood about 13 feet high and 40 feet long — and its tooth measures eight inches from root to tip

Estimate: £30,000-50,000
until 26 May, Online

The nervous energy of the French artist Bernard Buffet, apparent even in his spiky signature, finds an outlet in his 1965 painting Red Azalea in a Pot. A subject that many would have imbued with serene stillness becomes an explosion of line and colour in his hands

Estimate: HK$950,000-1,500,000
27 May, Hong Kong

The third Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi, made its appearance in 1983 — as did this Darth Vader Speakerphone. The scary antagonist to Luke Skywalker and friends is transformed into a nifty communication device, and this one has its original box, instructions and phone cable

Estimate: €300-500
25 May, Paris

Portrait of Giuseppe Eskenazi / Large dry lacquer head of a bodhisattva, Tang dynasty, 8th century. Photos: Eskenazi Gallery // Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) and Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999), Table basse carrée 'Tokyo', adaptation d'un modèle de table à piètement 'Tulip'. Painted plywood, oak and aluminium. 40 x 105 x 105 cm. Estimate: €20,000-30,000 / Jean Royère (1902-1981), Canapé 'Boule' dit 'Ours Polaire', c. 1947. Beech and velvet. 75 x 235 x 120 cm. Estimate: €400,000-600,000 / Georges Jouvé (1910-1964), Calice, vers 1958. Glazed ceramic. 25.5 x 22 cm. Estimate: €10,000-15,000 / Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999), Tabouret bas tripode 'Berger', le modèle créé en 1953. Painted sipo. 27.5 x 32 cm. Estimate: €4,000-6,000 / Jean Prouvé (1901-1984), Tabouret 'N.307', c. 1953. Painted embossed aluminum sheet and tubular steel. 41 x 45 x 35.5 cm. Estimate: €40,000-60,000 / Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999), Table forme libre dite 'Feuille', le modèle créé en 1953. Stained sipo. 71 x 236 x 110 cm. Estimate: €600,000-800,000. All offered in Design, 25 May 2022 at Christie's in Paris

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