Christie’s Online Mag. No. 183

Ready for your close-up? We turn the spotlight on six fascinating Italian Old Masters



Treasures owned by the Rothschilds, ‘the greatest ever family of non-royal collectors’



Confronting the void — and the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern — with the fearless Kara Walker



The mystery of the ‘licking dog’ unearthed in a field by two British metal detectorists



‘Luminous and beautiful beyond all other pictures’ — the rise of pastel in the 18th century



Balenciaga and Spanish Painting — an exclusive video tour of the fabulous new exhibition


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Editor’s picks





Sabado por la Noche (Saturday Night)(1984) by Jean-Michel Basquiatis from an important period in the artist’s career when he began working with Warhol and had his first solo museum show

Estimate: £7,500,000–11,000,000
25 June, London






This Meissen porcelain plate is decorated with an unusual variation of the ‘Red Dragon’ pattern, a design usually reserved for the Saxon royal court in the 18th century

Estimate: £1,000–1,500
2–9 July, Online






Bartolomeo Montagna was the leading painter in Vicenza, Italy, in the late 15th century. Most of his surviving 30 drawings are now in museum collections; this rare example was acquired at auction by Viscount Lascelles, later Lord Harewood, in 1918

Estimate: £1,000,000–1,500,000
2 July, London






This is the only known signed manuscript of André Breton and Paul Éluard’s groundbreaking Dictionnaire abrégé du Surréalismefrom 1938. It comes from the celebrated collection of French bibliophile Paul Destribats

Estimate: €100,000-150,000
3–5 July, Paris


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