Christie's Online Magazine No.368

From: Christie's - Saturday Nov 18, 2023 03:34 pm

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Canaletto, Raymond Radiguet, Patrick Getreide watches, Ombersley Court, Private collections, The Shah Garg Foundation, and more |

A Canaletto conundrum: who commissioned two Venice views hitherto unknown to scholars?

Raymond Radiguet — how the 18-year-old novelist seduced the avant-garde and enraged France

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Patrick Getreide, a ‘magnificent obsession’, and the sale of more than 500 one-of-a-kind watches

Ombersley Court in the heart of England — ‘the story of a single family over more than 400 years’

The great estates: record-setting private collections revisited, from Rockefeller to Getty to Givenchy

Why Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg are sharing their collection of art by women with the world

More stories

Editor’s picks

The great Chinese painter Lin Fengmian, famed for uniting the artistic traditions of East and West, had a life touched by personal tragedy. Yet he seems to have attained serenity in later life. Lotus Pond, painted when he was in his eighties, exudes a calm appreciation of nature’s beauty

Estimate: HK$4,000,000-6,000,000
28 November, Hong Kong

This Asprey brooch is modelled on the cartoon character from the title sequence of the 1963 Blake Edwards film The Pink Panther. Formed from round-cut diamonds and pink sapphires in a gold setting, the debonair panther smokes a cigarette in a holder — which can be swapped for an enamel cigar

Estimate: £6,000-8,000
until 28 November, Online

Combining devotional imagery with visual trickery, A Portrait of the Artist (?) Presenting the Virgin in Prayer is also a meditation on art. The status of artists was up for debate, and this probable self-portrait by the 17th-century Flemish painter Michael Sweerts shows the man behind the painting lurking in the shadows

Estimate: £400,000-600,000
7 December, London

The Danish architect and designer Kaare Klint, born in 1888, was a giant of Scandinavian modernism. The principles he championed — simplicity, craft and quality of materials — are embodied in his three-seater sofa no. 4118, an immaculate, crisply profiled creation in mahogany, walnut and leather designed in 1929

Estimate: €10,000-15,000
29 November, Paris

Raymond Radiguet circa 1920. Photo: Archives Charmet / Bridgeman Images // Patrick Getreide, owner of The OAK Collection. Photo: Courtesy of Patrick Getreide // Upper left: Jacqueline Humphries (b. 1960), [//], 2014. Oil on linen. 100 x 111 in (254 x 281.9 cm). © Jacqueline Humphries; courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York. Photo by Jason Mandella; courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York / Lower left: Mary Weatherford (b. 1963), Light Falling like a Broken Chain; Paradise, 2021. Flashe on linen. 133 x 288 in (337.8 x 731.5 cm). © Mary Weatherford; courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen Studio; courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles / Right: Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg. Both artworks are included in Making Their Mark at the Shah Garg Foundation, New York, until 27 January 2024

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