Christie's Online Magazine No.370

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Jay-Z, Mouton Rothschild 2021 artist, Holiday gift guide, Quincy Jones’s cellar, Icons at Christie’s, Bertha Wegmann, and more |

In the footsteps of art’s titans — we reveal the maker of Château Mouton Rothschild’s new label

Word up: limited-edition library cards that celebrate Jay-Z’s link-up with Brooklyn Public Library

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Need a gift for someone special? Check out our curated selection of ideas from forthcoming sales

‘Mr Jones chose very well’: the world’s top wines, from the cellar of music legend Quincy Jones

Icons at Christie’s: remembering the cultural giants whose private collections brightened our world

‘Someone to be measured by a different yardstick’: the proto-feminist art of Bertha Wegmann

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Editor’s picks

The city that has held a life-long fascination for Richard Estes appears in his New York Harbor, dating from 2000. A brilliant gouache-and-pencil study of evening light and the movement of water, it is a view from the famous Staten Island Ferry, which figures more prominently in other works by the artist

Estimate: €2,000-3,000
until 8 December, Online

These two Chinese dishes, made in the Kangxi period (1662-1722), are decorated with scenes from the story of the Yang family. Most of the family’s men were killed in a Tartar raid, so the women became warriors to avenge them. Here we see them practising their equestrian skills before riding off into battle

Estimate: €4,000-6,000
12 December, Paris

Thomas Rowlandson is famous as a man of his time, a satirical cartoonist who was keenly attuned to the social and political mores of Georgian England. Yet in his ink drawings of rural life, such as Wool-washers, Gloucestershire, he presents a vision that is idyllic and timeless

Estimate: £2,000-3,000
8 December, London

Working mainly in the 19th century (he died in 1904), Christopher Dresser was a designer decades ahead of his time. Rejecting ornamentation, he produced pieces such as this rare silver pitcher from 1902, a clean-lined work of proto-modernism in which form and function merge seamlessly

Estimate: $7,000-9,000
7 December, New York

Left: detail of The Blueprint, JAY-Z. Released: 11 September 2001. Centre: detail of Magna Carta...Holy Grail, JAY-Z. Released: 4 July 2013. Right: detail of The Black Album, JAY-Z. Released: 14 November 2003. Photos: Roc Nation. The Book of HOV exhibition is at Brooklyn Public Library until 4 December 2023 // Salvo (1947-2015), Untitled, 1996. Oil on canvas. 60 x 80 cm. Estimate: €55,000-75,000. Offered in the 20th/21st Century Milan Online Sale, until 5 December 2023 at Christie’s Online // Quincy Delight Jones Jr. with his Big Band, Vienna, circa 1960. Photo: Franz Hubmann/Imagno/Getty Images // Donna Summer, 1979. Photo: Michael Putland/Getty Images. David Gilmour, 1977. Photo: Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Marilyn Monroe, 1954. Photo: Murray Garret/Getty Images. Charlie Watts, 1965. Photo: Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo/Alamy Stock Photo // Bertha Wegmann, 1885-1900. Photograph by Hansen & Weller. The Royal Danish Library

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