Christie's Online Magazine No.367

From: Christie's - Saturday Nov 11, 2023 03:35 pm

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New York 20th/21st Century sales results, Charles-Antoine Coypel, The Dr A. Botenga cellar, Chinese porcelain, Christie’s director of digital art, Botticelli, and more |

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20th/21st Century sales in New York surpass $748m; records for Diebenkorn, Gorky and Mitchell

Why Charles-Antoine Coypel, court painter to Louis XV, deserves fame beyond France

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‘In the end, it’s all emotion’ — Dr A. Botenga on how his wine collection reached 55,000 bottles

‘Renowned for museum-quality pieces’: blue-and-white porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection

From Beeple to the blockchain: our director of digital art on her career at the art + tech frontline

‘A journey within Botticelli’s mind’: newly attributed drawings going on show in San Francisco

Editor’s picks

Henri Maillardet, a Swiss clockmaker, is credited with crafting this rare field-mouse automaton circa 1810. Designed to move forward, stop and shake its head, turn around twice, then return to its starting point, it is one of fewer than 10 gold ‘Siberian mice’ in existence, most of which are in museums

Estimate: €100,000-150,000
21 November, Paris

The Feysville mine in Western Australia had its heyday in the late 1890s, but it wasn’t until 1980 that a local man named Jack Bray found the ‘Golden Aussie’ there. Measuring 26 centimetres across and weighing more than eight kilos, it is one of the largest — and finest — gold nuggets ever to be unearthed

Estimate: CHF 700,000-1,000,000
until 16 November, Online

A monumental work begun in 1996, Höhenflug can be seen as part of Raimund Girke’s 40-year obsession with the colour white. Its title translates as ‘soaring’, and the vast canvas recalls a sky full of clouds in constant flux. As the artist once said, ‘White refuses to be defined, seeming to expand and change forever’

Estimate: €50,000-70,000
until 21 November, Online

Maria Pergay, the pioneering designer who died on 31 October aged 93, created her ‘Fossil’ table lamp around 1970. It was her brilliant use of steel that brought her to prominence (for instance in her famous ‘Flying Carpet’ daybed), and that material is here highlighted with gilt-bronze ammonites

Estimate: €6,000-8,000
29 November, Paris

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Detail of Sandro Botticelli, Head of a Man in Near Profile Looking Left, circa 1468-70. Metalpoint, traces of black chalk, grey wash, heightened with white, on yellow-ochre prepared paper, 5 3/16 x 4 5/16 in (13.2 x 11 cm). By permission of the Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford