Christie’s No. 210

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7,000 years of art history in 7,000 seconds — an alternative guide to TEFAF 2020



Shakespeare’s ‘First Folio’ — a complete copy comes to auction for the first time in a generation



Why Greta Garbo, Givenchy, John Lennon and Valentino all flocked to Dalva Brothers



What is the role of London’s National Portrait Gallery in a confused 21st-century Britain?



‘One of the most important printmakers of the 20th century’ — the brilliance of Joan Miró


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This portrait of George Gershwin comes from Andy Warhol’s 1980 series, ‘Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century’. They were controversial when first shown, but later described by the National Portrait Gallery as ‘a remarkable achievement… magisterial in conception’

Estimate: $10,000-15,000
4 March, New York






New York-based French artist Julie Curtiss is an admirer of Louise Bourgeois and Dorothea Tanning. She says of her own work, in which glossy hair and nails are recurring motifs, ‘I want you to touch it with your eyes’. This 2016 painting is called Redfaced

Estimate: $60,000-80,000
5 March, New York






The Panerai Luminor 1950 was created for the Italian Navy. The Rattrapante mechanism on this Ref. OP 6754, one of the most difficult types of chronograph function to produce, allows the timing of multiple events simultaneously. It is one of the reasons why the watch was issued in an edition of just 300

Estimate: $20,000-25,000
Until 10 March, Online






Between 27 August and 20 September 1964 Sir Sidney Robert Nolan produced over 60 paintings of Antarctica, which he had visited earlier that year. Writer Alan Moorehead saw parallels with Nolan’s paintings of the Australian desert: ‘In the cold, as in the heat, there is a rejection of all changes and growth, even of life itself’

Estimate: £30,000-40,000
12-19 March, Online






Devotee at the Golden Temple, Amritsar, 1996 was taken by the American photographer Steve McCurry. ‘Before I went to India I was doing only black and white photography,’ he told the Rubin Museum in 2015. ‘But in India, so much of culture and religion revolves around colour. Colour is integral to the story’

Estimate: $2,500-3,500
13-20 March, Online


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