Christie’s 1/18/2020

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William Roberts (1895-1980) called himself an ‘English Cubist’. He was also an official war artist. The Wiring Party, from circa 1919, depicts the dangerous missions undertaken to build and repair barbed wire defences in no-man’s-land

Estimate: £100,000-150,000
21 January, London






Daniel Reynolds is a London-based sculptor and ceramicist whose work has recently been exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. These 12 onion-form vases in porcelain reflect his interest in ample forms, simple colours and organic materials

Estimate: £2,000-3,000
22-29 January, Online






‘Life is at its most uninhibited here,’ said Joan Eardley of the slums of Glasgow. Boy with a Fringe: Sandy, 1953, is an example of her uncompromising realism. Ten years later Eardley died of breast cancer, aged just 42

Estimate: £30,000-50,000
23 January, London






The scene on this bottle vase, dating to circa 1738, was one of four designs created by Cornelis Pronk for the Dutch East India Company. Known as ‘The Doctors Visiting the Emperor’, its great detail — including the figures right and centre each holding a fish — would have made it expensive to produce

Estimate: $3,000-5,000
23 January, New York






George Grey Barnard’s interest in Abraham Lincoln stemmed from a commission to create an 11ft statue of the 16th president for Lytle Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1917. A similar, unbearded work to this marble bust is held by The Met

Estimate: $5,000-8,000
24 January, New York