Christie’s # 201 12/7/19

‘An austere and blazing poetry of the real’: Ansel Adams and his long love affair with Yosemite



Live like royalty: objects owned by the descendants of King George V and Queen Mary



Why smart collectors are turning to fashion photography, and the artists on trend right now



The story of the teenager whose Shakespeare forgeries caused an 18th-century literary scandal



The runners and riders of British sporting art, from George Stubbs to Sir Alfred Munnings



George Nakashima: the designer whose hand-made furniture expressed the ‘soul of the tree’


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Beyond the Brotherhood — reappraising the women artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement



How the Brooklyn Museum’s director intends to make it ‘the most trailblazing museum on the planet’



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Carlo Bugatti (1856-1940) was the father of sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti and car maker Ettore Bugatti. This armchair was exhibited at the first International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Arts in 1902, where Bugatti was awarded the Diploma of Honour

Estimate: €70,000-100,000
10-11 December, Paris






Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley(1797-1851) wrote these six letters in Italian to the Tuscan nobleman Bartolomeo Cini from 1843 onwards, some 25 years after the publication of her novel Frankenstein

Estimate: £10,000-15,000
11 December, London






The Dutch artist Henriette Ronner-Knip (1821-1909) specialised in painting cats and dogs in bourgeois settings. Her subjects included the lapdogs of Marie Henriette of Austria and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Estimate: £10,000-15,000
12 December, London






In the late 1870s John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) painted a number of pictures of Whitby, a fishing port in the north of England. Views such as Whitby at Night have been compared to descriptions of the town in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Estimate: £250,000-350,000
12 December, London

 

Thanks, @springfld.arsenal for posting.......I'll just take THIS royal Desk Seal, please, and Thank You!!!!! VERY American patriotic I think with the colors!!!

 

Looks like there are some excellent articles. Look forward to reading.