Christie's Online Magazine No.366

From: Christie's - Saturday Nov 04, 2023 03:35 pm

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Bacon, Picasso, Gucci, Dalloul Collection, Gems for under $50,000, Stefanie Heinze, and more |

How Bacon made 1976’s Figure in Movement, with ‘Michelangelo and Muybridge in my mind’

Jason Reitman, son of Ivan: ‘My father said, “I’m bringing home a Picasso” — it didn’t feel real’

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‘Disney on acid’: why Stefanie Heinze’s Third Date is Lot 1 in the 21st Century Evening Sale

Ten little gems at under $50,000 — from a small Renoir still life to ink drawings by George Grosz

Gucci’s Bamboo handbags — how this 1947 design has been reimagined for today’s collector

Dr Basel Dalloul: ‘My parents’ collection spans the entire Arab world. It’s sort of encyclopaedic’

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Editor’s picks

Painted in 1960, Flowering Judas 2 is an early masterpiece by Lynne Drexler. The artist was overlooked in her later years, which she spent living as a self-described ‘hermit’ on an island off the Maine coast. But as this work shows, she had a rare genius for colour, producing canvases of mosaic-like beauty

Estimate: $300,000-500,000
9 November, New York

Photographer and filmmaker Youssef Nabil has made many portraits of his fellow artists, among them this 2007 work, Untitled (Shirin Neshat). He uses a largely forgotten technique, hand-colouring silver gelatin prints. ‘In this way,’ he has said, ‘I remove any remnants of present-day reality’

Estimate: £5,000-7,000
9 November, London

The destructive force of the sea is powerfully conveyed in this work by the Flemish artist Bonaventura Peeters, known for his paintings of shipwrecks. Yet The End of the Flood, with Noah’s Ark Atop Mount Ararat is an image of hope, with light piercing the clouds, and the mountain’s peak rising out of the waves

Estimate: €15,000-25,000
15 November, Paris

Issy Wood often paints on velvet rather than canvas. In Fanta/car interior, from 2019, the tactile material suggests the seductive quality typically used to sell cars to male buyers. As the artist explained, ‘It’s fun to try that on for size, to see what it would be like to be a man for whom this is a desirable object’

Estimate: $80,000-120,000
7 November, New York

Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Figure in Movement, 1976. Oil and dye transfer lettering on canvas. 78¼ x 58 in (198.9 x 147.3 cm). © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved / DACS, London / ARS, New York 2023. Estimate on request. Offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 9 November 2023 at Christie's in New York / Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), Detail of Plate 347, Wrestling, Graeco-Roman, 1885. Photo: © Addison Gallery of American Art / gift of the Edwin J Beinecke Trust / Bridgeman Images // Detail of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Femme endormie, 1934. Oil on canvas. 28½ x 21¼ in (72.4 x 54 cm). © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Estimate: $25,000,000-35,000,000. Offered in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 9 November 2023 at Christie’s in New York // Detail of Stefanie Heinze (b. 1987), Third Date, 2020. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 78¾ x 51⅛ in (200 x 130 cm). © Stefanie Heinze. Estimate: $60,000-80,000. Offered in the 21st Century Evening Sale on 7 November 2023 at Christie’s in New York // Marie Laurencin (1883-1956), Vase de fleurs. Oil on canvas. 21¾ x 18¼ in (55 x 46.2 cm). © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Estimate: $20,000-30,000. Offered in the Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale on 11 November 2023 at Christie’s in New York. © Fondation Foujita / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2023 / George Grosz (1893-1959), Herr Bombonell (recto), circa 1920. Pen and India ink on paper. 9½ x 9½ in (24.3 x 24.3 cm). © 2023 Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Estimate: $8,000-12,000. Offered in Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper on 11 November 2023 at Christie’s in New York // Dr Basel Dalloul with Green and Earth, 2014, by Samia Halaby (b. 1936). Acrylic on canvas. 60 x 79⅞ in (152.5 x 203 cm). Estimate: £40,000-60,000. Offered in Marhala: Highlights from the Dalloul Collection on 9 November 2023 at Christie’s in London

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