Christie's Online Magazine No.387

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What’s on in Venice, Collector Rosa de la Cruz, Monet masterpieces, Cartier watches, Hermès bags, 150th anniversary of Impressionism, and more ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ |

BUY | SELL | STORIES

Venice Biennale must-sees: from unmissable national pavilions to compelling collateral exhibitions

‘By acquiring them, she made artists more desirable’: how Rosa de la Cruz drove collecting trends

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‘The study of light in its thousands of decompositions’: all you need to know about the Impressionists

‘Breathtakingly chic’: the very rare craftsmanship that renders this Cartier Asymétrique unique

Hermès bags: the art of matching the right model — Kelly? Birkin? Constance? — to the perfect hue

Monet and his masterpieces: from haystacks to waterlilies to train stations, the Thames and the Seine

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Editor’s picks

The French painter Gully was a graffiti artist for more than a decade, finally switching from street to studio in the early 2000s. He is known for ‘appropriating’ the work of others, and Hommage NTHK Miro, from 2023, is a good example, mixing the abstract forms of Joan Miró with Edward Hopper’s bar scene, Nighthawks

Estimate: €10,000-15,000
until 30 April, Online

This part dinner service, from around 1969, features the ‘Flora Danica’ design of Danish plants created by Royal Copenhagen Porcelain in 1802. The original set was to have been a gift for Catherine the Great of Russia, but she died before its completion. Instead, it was first used at King Christian VII’s birthday in 1803

Price on request
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When Willem van Veldhuizen made his 1978 painting A Summer Afternoon in the Centre Pompidou, the institution was still new. Yet its striking architecture is merely hinted at in a narrow strip at the top of the canvas, as is the Parisian skyline. Most of the work is devoted to a minutely detailed expanse of floor, suggesting a haven of space and serenity

Estimate: €3,000-5,000
until 23 April, Online

The motif of the ‘green man’, a foliage-covered, bearded face often seen in Gothic churches, is central to this Irish mahogany console table. Though carved in the 1800s, the piece, with its cabriole legs, ball-and-claw feet, and swags of carved leaves and berries, is in the Georgian style of the previous century

Estimate: $7,000-10,000
until 25 April, Online

Berlinde De Bruyckere: City of Refuge III, Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 20 April to 24 November 2024. Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia. © Berlinde De Bruyckere. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Mirjam Devriendt // Rosa de la Cruz. Photo: Courtesy of the consignor

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