Christie's Online Magazine No.362

From: Christie's - Saturday Oct 07, 2023 03:08 pm

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Pont-Aven School, Museum of West African Art, Patek Philippe, Latinx artists, Abstract painters, A Tiffany mansion, and more |

‘I returned to the past’: how the Pont-Aven School were seduced by ‘wild and primitive’ Brittany

On the making of MOWAA — Nigeria’s mission to ‘reimagine museology in an African context’

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How this unique Patek Philippe incorporates one of the largest lasque diamonds ever unearthed

Latinx art at Rockefeller Center — artists of Hispanic heritage with stories for a global audience

Five abstract artists to know — from ‘making the paint vibrate’ to creating ‘cultural spiderwebs’

Ayer Mansion in Boston: the last building standing with a Tiffany-designed interior and exterior

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Editor’s picks

The Belgian artist Harold Ancart demolishes the notion of flower painting as a safe, sedate sub-genre of the still life in his 2015 work Untitled. Seeming to spring from the soil of an alien planet against a cosmic night sky, the artist’s exuberant blooms burst with explosive energy and eye-popping colour

Estimate: £120,000-180,000
13 October, London

Rosa Bonheur came to prominence in the mid-19th century as a skilled painter of animals and a proto-feminist. No admirer of men, she once said, ‘As for males, I only like the bulls I paint.’ Le taureau gris, painted in the 1880s, is a typically adept, sensitive study of one such beast

Estimate: $20,000-30,000
20 October, New York

For a piece of furniture designed to facilitate languid indolence, this Regency mahogany daybed — probably Irish in origin and dating from around 1815 — has a surprisingly dynamic look. Its sleek, streamlined profile, scrolled ends and sweep of striped upholstery lend it a dashing sense of movement

Estimate: $2,000-3,000
until 17 October, Online

Like dreams, the worlds created by Mernet Larsen are familiar yet strange. Perspective is skewed, and mysterious boxy characters inhabit spaces that the viewer doesn’t readily understand. In Escalator, from 2009, we see figures on a weirdly stretched, vertigo-inducing staircase in what looks like an airport or shopping mall

Estimate: £20,000-30,000
14 October, London

Emile Bernard (1868-1941), Baigneuses aux nénuphars, circa 1889 (detail). Oil on canvas. 36¼ x 28¾ in (92.2 x 72.8 cm). Estimate: €600,000-900,000. Offered in La Collection Sam Josefowitz: Vente du Soir on 20 October 2023 at Christie’s in Paris // Dalton Gata (b. 1977), I wish my house had a pool, 2022. Acrylic on canvas. 30 x 38 in (76.2 x 96.5 cm). Price on request / Gisela Colón (b. 1966), Parabolic Monolith (Perseus), 2022. Aurora particles, stardust, cosmic radiation, intergalactic matter, ionic waves, organic carbamate, gravity, and time. Height: 98½ in (250.2 cm). Width: 24 in (61 cm). Depth: 12 in (30.5 cm). Price on request / Juan Sánchez (b. 1954), Para Tito Puente, 2001-2002. Oil, cowrie shells, beaded necklaces and collage on panel. 74 x 72 in (188 x 182.9 cm). Price on request / Freddy Rodríguez (1945-2022), Pirámide, 1980. Acrylic on canvas. 53⅞ x 42⅛ in (136.9 x 107 cm). Price on request / Armig Santos (b. 1995), Developer, 2023. Oil on canvas. 84 x 132 in (213.4 x 335.3 cm). Price on request / Miguel Luciano (b. 1972), Barceloneta Bunnies, 2007. Acrylic on canvas laid on panel. 72 x 72 in (182.9 x 182.9 cm). Price on request / César Martínez (b. 1944), Shorty, 2016. Acrylic on canvas. 54 x 44 in (137.2 x 111.8 cm). Price on request. All offered in Historias/Histories from 23 September to 22 October 2023 at Christie's in New York // Lucy Bull (b. 1990), Untitled, 2017. Oil on canvas. 40 x 30⅛ in (101.6 x 76.5 cm). Estimate: £50,000-70,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 14 October 2023 at Christie’s in London / Austyn Weiner (b. 1989), I Fell Open, 2021. Oil and oil stick on canvas, in three parts. Each: 71⅝ x 58⅛ in (183 x 147.5 cm); overall: 71⅝ x 174¼ in (183 x 442.5 cm). Estimate: £60,000-80,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 14 October 2023 at Christie’s in London / Sarah Morris (b. 1967), War of Roses (Sound Graph), 2018. Household gloss on canvas. 60 x 60 in (152.5 x 152.5 cm). Estimate: £20,000-30,000. Offered in First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online until 17 October 2023 / Lesley Vance (b. 1977), Untitled, 2015. Oil on linen. 24¼ x 17 in (61.6 x 43.2 cm). Estimate: £30,000-50,000. Offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 14 October 2023 at Christie’s in London / Tomo Campbell (b. 1988), Full Circle, 2022. Oil on canvas. 55⅛ x 59 in (140 x 150 cm). Estimate: £8,000-12,000. Offered in First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online until 17 October 2023 // Ayer Mansion rendering courtesy of Neoscape

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