Christie’s Online Magazine No. 133 (Warning: Newditty!)

A special Rockefeller edition to celebrate an historic auction series
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Where next for the girl with the flowers?

Marc Porter on a Rose Period Picasso that has spent its 113-year existence in two of history’s greatest collections ▸



‘A completely new way of painting’

Biographer Hilary Spurling explains how this landmark Matisse was the product of a partnership between artist and model ▸



O’Keeffe’s Near Abiquiu, New Mexico

A sumptuous 1931 painting of desert and mountains that links four of the most influential women in 20th-century art ▸



The Rockefellers’ prized porcelain

Loved and lived with by successive generations of the family, highlights from an extraordinary collection ▸



‘Precisely what we had been looking for’

Bought to fill a space vacated by a Cézanne, Corot’s view of Venice conjured happy memories for David Rockefeller ▸



From the Chairman’s desk at Chase Bank

A 13th-century incense burner (left) that reflects the Rockefellers’ longstanding interest in the Holy Land ▸


Editor’s picks



How John D. Rockefeller, Jr. built the ‘city within a city’ that’s now home to Christie’s in New York



Take a virtual tour of the collection, now on show at our Rockefeller Center galleries



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I like Christie’s first caption “Where next for the girl with the flowers?”

My answer

“To get some clothes,
I do suppose!”

 

The Rockefellers.........I guess it's what you do when you have more money than God......or Warren Buffet.....or Bill Gates!!!! VERY Philanthropic!!!!!

 

The ‘spensive paintings went up last nite. I was going to bid on ‘em but there was some interesting stuff on PBS TV, so... sale netted about $650 million. Nekked gurl got $115 million. Two more days of this sale, all $ goes to charity. David and Peggy had some great stuff!

 

That girl is so young .. barely into her teens and still childlike, disconcerting to say the least, Joy.