Christie's Online Magazine No.379

From: Christie's - Saturday Feb 24, 2024 03:48 pm

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Hockney’s California, Magritte’s L’ami intime, Alice Neel, Brooke Alexander Editions, Outsider Art hot list, Collecting prints, and more ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ |

BUY | SELL | STORIES

‘It was all so sexy’ — how David Hockney expressed his newfound liberation in California, 1965

100 years of Surrealism — will we ever decipher the enigma of Magritte’s bowler-hatted man?

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Prints from Brooke Alexander Editions, showing ‘preference for a clear, concise visual language’

‘I’m a psychological painter’: how Alice Neel brought the politics of her era to studies of raw humanity

Outsider artists — the janitor, the steelworker and the truck driver now anointed to the canon of art

How to collect prints: woodcuts to lithographs, originals vs. editions, the importance of paper and more

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Editor’s picks

The German artist Karin Kneffel is known in part for her hyperrealistic approach to the still life, with oil paintings such as Untitled (Cherries), from 2007, taking on the quality of high-resolution photographs. She often subverts that realism by adding fantastical elements, but here the magnified fruit fills the frame

Estimate: £20,000-30,000
9 March, London

This cobalt glass bowl is a 1998 work by the pioneering New Zealand artist Ann Robinson. Having become familiar with the ‘lost-wax’ process of casting bronze sculptures at art school in the late 1960s, she spent years developing and perfecting its use in the creation of glass objects, eventually becoming a world authority on the subject

Estimate: $5,000-7,000
until 27 February, Online

Born in Shanghai in 1924, Irene Chou studied economics and worked as a journalist before beginning to train as a painter at the age of 30. Vortex combines her knowledge of traditional Chinese ink painting with her interest in abstraction, bringing in elements often seen in her work: floating spheres, dizzying spaces and calligraphic whirls

Estimate: HK$35,000-45,000
until 6 March, Online

From the globe-carrying Atlas on top, flanked by winged horses, to the pair of workers striking a bell with hammers below, this carved wooden ‘cuckoo’ clock is packed with life. Other figures carry a scythe and an hourglass, and owls are perched here and there, while lettering on the main dial spells out: ‘Time is flying’

Estimate: $4,000-8,000
1 March, New York

David Hockney (b. 1937), California, 1965. Acrylic on canvas. 66⅛ x 78¼ in (168 x 198.8 cm). Estimate on request. Offered in the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 7 March 2024 at Christie’s in London. Artwork: © David Hockney // René Magritte (1898-1967), L’ami intime, 1958 (detail). Oil on canvas. 28⅝ x 25½ in (72.6 x 64.9 cm). Estimate: £30,000,000-50,000,000. Offered in The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale on 7 March 2024 at Christie’s in London. Artwork: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2024 // Josef Albers (1888-1976), I-S a, 1968. Screenprint in colours, on German Etching paper. Image: 13¾ x 13¾ in (349 x 350 mm). Sheet: 21½ x 21⅜ in (545 x 543 mm). © 2024 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Estimate: $5,000-7,000 / Josef Albers (1888-1976), I-S b, 1968. Screenprint in colours, on German Etching paper. Image: 13¾ x 13¾ in (349 x 349 mm). Sheet: 21½ x 21⅜ in (546 x 544 mm). © 2024 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Estimate: $5,000-7,000. Both offered in Contemporary Edition: New York on 14 March 2024 at Christie’s in New York // Alice Neel (1900-1984), David McKee and his First Wife Jane, 1968 (detail). Oil on canvas. 59⅞ x 40⅛ in (152.1 x 102 cm). Estimate: £1,200,000-1,800,000. Offered in the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 7 March 2024 at Christie’s in London. Artwork: © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel // Winfred Rembert (1945-2021), Weigh Your Cotton, 2013. Dye on carved and tooled leather. 30¾ x 31½ in. Estimate: $70,000-100,000 / Judith Scott (1943-2005) and Donald Mitchell (b. 1951), Untitled. Tambourine, paint and ink with wooden frames and yarn. 18 in high; 15 in wide; 3 in deep. Estimate: $8,000-12,000 / Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930), Der Harzformige, Nitnixa Und Dohrn (Double-Sided), 1925. Coloured pencil on paper. 20⅛ x 26⅞ in. Estimate: $30,000-40,000 / William Hawkins (1895-1990), Old Home. Acrylic on board. 24 x 48 in. Estimate: $10,000-20,000 / Thornton Dial (1928-2016), Struggling Tiger Proud Stepping, 1991. Enamel, oil, rope carpet, corrugated tin, wood, carpet, and Splash Zone compound on canvas mounted on wood. 64 x 88¼ in. Estimate: $40,000-80,000 / Bill Traylor (c. 1853-1949), Untitled (Woman in a Polka Dot Skirt). Graphite and post paint on cardboard. 13½ x 7¼ in. Estimate: $30,000-50,000. All offered in Outsider Art on 1 March 2024 at Christie’s in New York // H.C. Westermann (1922-1981), Human Cannonball, 1971. Woodcut in colours on Japon paper. Framed Image: 16⅛ x 20 in (410 x 508 mm). Sheet: 18 x 24½ in (457 x 622 mm). © Dumbarton Arts, LLC / VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Estimate: $5,000-7,000. Offered in Contemporary Edition: New York on 14 March 2024 at Christie’s in New York

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