Christie’s stories 9/7/19

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  • ART WORLD NEWS
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  Private view: inside the new-look Christie’s Magazine
  A preview of our new-look September issue, featuring — as always — the very best the art world and Christie’s has to offer
  
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  • INTERVIEW
  What I’ve learned: Dr Andrew Hildreth, watch expert
  The presenter of Christie’s Education’s online course on the history of watches reflects on concentric balance springs, ‘the Quartz crisis’ and Fidel Castro
  
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• • PHOTOGRAPHS & PRINTS
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  • COLLECTING GUIDE
  ‘I only take pictures for money or pleasure’ — 10 things to know about Helmut Newton
  A guide to the photographer whose eroticised and provocative images subverted traditional conventions of fashion photography
  
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  • ASIAN ART
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  • AUCTION PREVIEW
  Virtual tour: Asian Art Week in New York
  From 6–13 September, explore the breadth of must-see art drawn from all corners of a vast continent. From contemporary classical and Chinese paintings to works with exemplary prove...
  
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  • COLLECTING GUIDE
  What are the 10 most desirable Patek Philippe references?
  John Reardon — Patek Philippe expert and Senior International Consultant for Christie’s Watches — attempts the impossible by naming his shortlist
  
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  • COLLECTIONS
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  • COLLECTORS & COLLECTIONS
  Art for Future: Selected works from the UniCredit Group
  Introducing an exceptional selection of Post-War and Contemporary art, which includes works by Gerhard Richter, Yves Klein and Andreas Gursky
  
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  • POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART
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  • ARTISTS
  10 things to know about Ed Ruscha
  Ahead of the Thirtyfive Works by Ed Ruscha auction in New York, a primer on the artist who has long been at the forefront of Californian cool
  
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  • POP CULTURE & COLLECTIBLES
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  5 minutes with... Miles Davis’s ‘Moon and Stars’ trumpet
  Contemporary jazz star Keyon Harrold describes his thrill at playing the jazz legend’s blue ‘Moon and Stars’ horn
  
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  • ASIAN ART
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  • COLLECTING GUIDE
  Collecting guide: Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
  Specialist Aisi Wang guides us through the life and art of one of the finest — and most flamboyant — Japanese artists of the 20th century
  
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  • COLLECTIONS
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  • COLLECTORS & COLLECTIONS
  The Matthys-Colle Collection to be offered at Christie’s
  One of Europe’s most important private contemporary art collections will be offered in London this October
  
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  • FINE ART
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  • COLLECTING GUIDE
  Artist guides
  A series of guides to some of the most important artists we offer at auction
  
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  • PHOTOGRAPHS & PRINTS
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  • ARTISTS
  Art versus chess
  Chess sets that show how the game has been reimagined by some of the 20th century’s leading artists — offered in London on 18 September
  
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  • JEWELLERY
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  • COLLECTING GUIDE
  ‘Love is an emerald’ — 10 historic emerald jewels sold at Christie’s
  Find out more about stunning emerald jewels owned by the Romanovs, Mughal emperors, the Rockefellers and many more
  
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  • IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART
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  • EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
  Antenna: A collage education
  Meredith Etherington-Smith talks to the curator of Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage, an intriguing show in Edinburgh
  
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  • PHOTOGRAPHS & PRINTS
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  • COLLECTING GUIDE
  A guide to collecting Banksy
  Ahead of a dedicated online sale of Banksy works this September, two Christie’s specialists discuss the life and art of the world’s most famous street artist
  
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• • FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS
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  • INTERVIEW
  The tastemaker: Susie Atkinson
  The London-based interior designer on her design philosophy, and her picks from Christie’s Interiors sale on 11 September
  
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• • COLLECTIONS
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  • COLLECTORS & COLLECTIONS
  The Jeremy Lancaster Collection
  A chorus of vivid colour, radical form and brilliant innovation — offered on 1 October as a highlight of Frieze Week in London
  
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  • POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART
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  • COLLECTING GUIDE
  Collecting Guide: 5 things to know about Street Art
  Christie’s specialists discuss Keith Haring, Banksy, Stik and other artists who are bringing the street into the home
  
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  • ASIAN ART
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  • VIDEO
  Studio visit: Rina Banerjee
  The Indian-born, New York-based artist talks about her work and shows us around her studio space in Brooklyn
  
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  • ASIAN ART
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  • COLLECTING GUIDE
  Collecting guide: Chinese archaic bronzes
  Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art specialist Katie Lundie on what to look for when collecting Chinese archaic bronzes
  
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  • IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART
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  • INTERVIEW
  First J.M.W. Turner, now L.S. Lowry. Which artist will Timothy Spall play next?
  The London-born actor, who stars in Mrs Lowry & Son, speaks to Christie’s about the inner life of the man who painted the broken dreams of Britain’s industrial north
  
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• • ASIAN ART
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  • COLLECTORS & COLLECTIONS
  The Collection of Eileen and I.M Pei
  Paintings, drawings, works on paper and sculpture assembled by the celebrated international architect and his wife during their 72-year marriage
  
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  • COLLECTIONS
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  • VIDEO
  Studio visit: Dylan Lewis
  The leading contemporary sculptor shows us around his studio and the incredible sculpture park he has created in South Africa
  
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  • ASIAN ART
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  • COLLECTING GUIDE
  Collecting guide: Chinese jades
  Chinese ceramics and works of art specialist Vicki Paloympis offers tips on how to start a collection
  
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  • ASIAN ART
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  • COLLECTING GUIDE
  Collecting guide: 10 things you need to know about Chinese ceramics
  A new collector’s guide to palettes, glazes, reign marks, and the different kilns, plus why it pays to handle as many pieces as possible
  
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• • COLLECTIONS
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  • COLLECTORS & COLLECTIONS
  The Terry Allen Kramer Collection
  Offered in New York, the art collected by the Tony Award-winning producer, philanthropist and ‘grand dame’ of Palm Beach
  
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• • ASIAN ART
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  • ARTISTS
  Francis Newton Souza — The ‘enfant terrible’ of Modern Indian Art
  Nishad Avari guides us through the life and art of one of India’s most important painters — illustrated with works offered on 11 September in New York
  
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• • COLLECTIONS
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  • COLLECTORS & COLLECTIONS
  The Clarke Collection: A West Coast love story
  As an extraordinary collection of West Coast art comes to Christie’s in New York, we meet the visionary couple behind it
  
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  • ASIAN ART
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  • VIDEO
  Masterpieces of early Chinese gold and silver
  Ahead of the sale of 101 objects in New York, specialist Michelle Cheng talks us through a selection of highlights
  
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  • ARTISTS
  S.H. Raza in 10 questions
  The Indian artist whose canvases fused European avant-garde ideas with the spirituality of his homeland. Illustrated with works offered at Christie’s
  
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