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...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...The auction house has another 20th-century female artist in the spotlight at its May sale with a collection of four paintings by the Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell....
...“I don’t think she’s the modern day Joan of Arc that she’s being portrayed to be,” Wayne MacDonald, the Christie campaign’s New Hampshire chair who was part of that conservation, told the Financial Times...
...Thaddaeus Ropac now represents Joan Snyder and marks its signing with a recent work for its booth at Frieze Los Angeles, “Even a Melon Field” (2020-23, $210,000)....
...And in Berlin, Chinese artist Xiyao Wang’s paintings visualise dance as flurries of line and colour; her solo booth with MassimodeCarlo gallery at Frieze London last year was titled En l’Air, referencing...
...Modern Art’s 2,000 sq ft, second-floor space will be in a Haussmann-designed building on Place de l’Alma in the city’s central eighth arrondissement....
...Opera now brings higher-value and more recognised artists to a more open-minded market and has recently appointed Isabelle de la Bruyère, a Christie’s long-timer, as its chief executive based in London....
...Conductor and founder William Christie is generous to his instrumentalists, so organ, flute, horn and cello all get their moment in the spotlight....
...Next season, Anna Sui’s autumn/winter 24 collection — inspired by Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and first editions of Virginia Woolf and recently shown at the Strand’s Rare Book Room in New York — is all...
...There are the early witchy illustrations (a copy of the introduction from A Book of Satyrs from 1906 sold in 2014 for £13,750); and the anamorphic images of the likes of Joan Crawford, distorted as if viewed...
...Christie’s had the healthiest auction of the season so far on November 9, when 61 pieces of mostly 20th-century art sold for a within-estimate $543.5mn ($640.8mn with fees)....
...The six ensuite cabins, staggered over two levels, evidence this beautifully, from custom Egyptian kilim carpets to the master suite’s trompe l’oeil landscape – made by Greek artist Athan Mytilinaios using...
...Christie’s Highlights from the oeuvre of Studio Ymer&Malta will be exhibited at the auctioneers on Avenue Matignon....
...This follows last year’s landmark Joan Mitchell presentation; Ellsworth Kelly comes next spring. 6....
...Christie’s will offer works by Paul Gauguin and Joan Mitchell as part of a $50mn collection consigned by Roger Sant, founder of the US energy company AES Corporation....
...Alterations start from £25, and appointments are advised (though not necessary). kingsroad@rixo.co.uk JS L’Art de l’Aiguille, Paris Hidden away in the quiet Rue Régis, just off St-Germain-des-Prés in the...
...The small, nearly monochromatic work — “The Adoration of the Kings” (now dated c1628) — was catalogued as Circle of Rembrandt at Christie’s in Amsterdam in 2021 and estimated at €10,000-€15,000....
...The event will now be in the 18th-century L’hôtel de Maisons, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés....
...She inherited the work from her parents, Charles Shipman and Joan Whitney Payson, the latter an heiress and founder-owner of the New York Mets baseball team....
...Hood for its foldaway bonnet-style hats (£49, l-hood.com)....
...You might understand it as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s monstrous siblings in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?; as a drag queen’s stock in trade; and certainly as anything covered in rhinestones....
...We care only when a famous auction house gets involved to sell on Sylvia Plath’s recipe cards or Joan Didion’s hurricane lamps or Charlie Watts’ rare book collection....
...Ostin’s works were topped by René Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951), which sold for $36.5mn ($42.3mn with fees, est $35mn-$55mn) while a second painting by Magritte in his collection, from 1949,...
...“L’heure des bleus”, the opening section, pairs a group of Monet’s water gardens with Mitchell’s fluid panorama “Quatuor II for Betsy Jolas”....
...And it’s that L-word that really gets people worried....
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