Nicholas Roerich: ‘Master of the Mountains’, First Open works on paper, Digital art, The Warburg Institute, Christie’s Fund for the Arts, Gabriela Hearst, and more͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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This week’s stories
‘Master of the Mountains’ — the extraordinary world of artist Nicholas Roerich
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150 years after his birth, we celebrate the life of the guru, educator, explorer and Nobel Prize nominee who painted the Himalayas and instigated the Roerich Pact to protect cultural treasures in wartime
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Our guide to works on paper — and even newsprint, like Franz Kline’s Untitled, above, next to Baby Girl by Deborah Roberts
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The A-Z of digital art: from Anadol to Zancan via Beeple and DeeKay, Larva Labs, Pudgy Penguins and Snowfro (above)
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Is this the world’s weirdest library? How the Warburg Institute escaped Nazi Germany to begin a new life in London
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The art of giving back: how Christie’s Fund for the Arts is supporting emerging artists and broadening art-world access
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In the Frame: designer Gabriela Hearst on her Fall 2025 collection, Elsa Schiaparelli, Harold Ancart, Save the Children and more
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Editor’s picks
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Clement Clarke Moore was a distinguished theologian, but his best-known work is the 1822 poem A Vist from St Nicholas (‘’Twas the night before Christmas’). This manuscript copy was handwritten by the author and sent to a family friend, the Hon. R.S. Chilton, in 1853. It is one of only five known autograph copies of the work, three of which are in museum collections
Price on request
Private Sales
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This majestic 19th-century gold bracelet evokes the spirit of the classical world and its vivid mythology. On one side is a micromosaic of the sun god Apollo in his chariot, surrounded by female attendants and preceded by the winged, torch-bearing deity Phosphorus and Aurora, goddess of the dawn; on the other, in an elaborate filigree setting, is the single word ‘ROMA’
Estimate: €15,000-24,000
until 17 December, Online
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A Madonna and Child for the modern age, Alex Katz’s Untitled, painted around 1960, depicts his wife Ada and their newborn son Vincent. By using oils on panel and placing the image in a circle, the New York artist alludes to the Italian Renaissance, and more specifically the tondo — a circular artwork of a kind given to wives by their husbands after childbirth
Estimate: $100,000-150,000
until 18 December, Online
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Château La Conseillante 1989 comes from a renowned Pomerol wine estate named after a powerful woman, Catherine Conseillan, who purchased and extended the vineyard in the mid-18th century. Today’s owners, the Nicolas family, acquired it in 1871. The 1989 vintage is praised for its complexity, with notes of crushed violets and exotic spice
Estimate: $3,500-4,500
until 19 December, Online
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Spotlight on
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The designer, philanthropist and collector Mica Ertegun, who epitomised style and sophistication for a generation and beyond. Paris Online, until 18 December, including works by Giorgio de Chirico and Ingrid Donat
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Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery in London — final weeks to see the blockbuster show charting the artist’s revelatory period in Provence
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150 years of Impressionism: how Monet’s Impression, Sunrise set the tone for one of the most momentous exhibitions in art history, on 15 April 1874
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Anytime, Anywhere
ART AND LUXURY, READY TO TAKE HOME
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Online Selling Exhibition
Until 15 March 2025
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We’d like to extend seasonal best wishes to all our readers. We’ll be back on 11 January 2025
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