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Martha Fiennes and Salma Hayek discuss Yugen, their groundbreaking AI artwork


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This French giltwood four-panel screen is inset with oil-on-canvas panels, and the reverse is lined in purple-blue silk

Estimate: $12,000-18,000
16 October, New York






Enjoy your evening libation in style by mixing it on a drinks cabinet designed by Gio Ponti

Estimate: £15,000-25,000
17 October, London






Only three to five examples of Ingo Maurer’s Porca Miseria!lamp are produced per year, each custom-made and unique

Estimate: £50,000-80,000
17 October, London






Suspended by a rope from the ceiling, Gutai artist Kazuo Shiraga painted Chigakusei Tekkyoshi with his bare feet

Estimate: €1,500,000-2,500,000
17 October, Paris


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Plan your visit to Christie’s



Paris
View works from the collection of Bénédicte Pesle, the celebrated French patron and collector, 13-18 October

London
View paintings, woodwork, carpets, rugs, manuscripts and more in our Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds auction, 20-24 October

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An American Place, Barney A. Ebsworth’s home on the shores of Lake Washington. Photograph by Paul Warchol // Marcel Duchamp (1887-1969), Boîte-en-valise, designed between 1935 and 1940. Offered in She Was a Giant: Bénédicte Pesle on 18 October at Christie’s in Paris © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London // Henry Moore (1898-1986), Reclining Figure (conceived in 1982) in the rose garden at Jerry Perenchio’s Bel Air estate. Estimate: $8,000,000-12,000,000. Offered in the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 11 November at Christie’s in New York. © The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved, DACS / www.henry-moore.org 2018 // Still from Yugen by Martha Fiennes, 2018. Two editions and two artist’s proofs © SLOimage Ltd