20th/21st Century London sale results, Frank Auerbach, Asian Art Week New York highlights, Coco Chanel’s personal collection, Women art collectors, and more͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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This week’s stories
20th/21st Century: London evening sales achieve £130.2m / $166.5m
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Led by René Magritte, with an auction record for Michael Andrews and strong demand for Chillida, Delvaux, Lempicka and Schiele, the night saw 94 per cent sold by lot and 97 per cent sold by value
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Asian Art Week highlights: S.H. Raza, a bronze Buddha head, Ito Jakuchu’s rediscovered Crane, Pine and Bamboo, and more
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‘All my paintings went through hundreds of transmutations’ — why Auerbach’s Nude on Bed III is like sculpture on canvas
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‘If you’re looking for a single artwork that defines modern South Asian art, this is it’: M.F. Husain’s Untitled (Gram Yatra)
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How a 1978 Christie’s sale, The Personal Collection of Chanel, became the defining fashion auction of the 20th century
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International Women’s Day — how the achievements of Isabella d’Este, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Peggy Guggenheim blazed a trail for the leading women collectors of today
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Editor’s picks
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Eri Iwasaki works in the nihonga tradition of Japanese painting, using natural mineral pigments on paper. But her subject matter is very much her own, typically focusing on women or children in otherworldly settings. Ideas of self-protection and vulnerability are explored in her 2024 work Warm and Soft, depicting a solemn child in a fantastical fur coat, gazing steadily at the viewer
Estimate: $6,000-8,000
18 March, New York
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In the male-dominated world of mid-century modernism, Greta Magnusson-Grossman stood out as a pioneer. Having emigrated from Sweden to America with her jazz musician husband, she became a sought-after architect and designer with a showroom on Rodeo Drive. This model no. 731 floor lamp, a pared-back style icon in brass and aluminium, was designed in 1948
Estimate: $10,000-15,000
until 11 March, Online
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There are two main strands to the colour-drenched work of the Californian artist Hilary Pecis: domestic interiors packed with detail, and landscapes bristling with energy — like her 2022 painting Angeles Crest. Pecis is a keen runner, and her views of the trails around Los Angeles are a vivid personal record of how she experiences these lush bursts of wilderness in an urban setting
Estimate: £10,000-15,000
until 12 March, Online
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The Pakistani artist Bani Abidi addresses her country’s history of conflict in a body of work that includes video and photography as well as painting. Security Barriers A-L, a series of prints dating from 2008, anatomises various forms of roadblock she has seen in Karachi, the city of her birth, bringing these often overlooked structures of control to the foreground
Estimate: $20,000-30,000
until 25 March, Online
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Spotlight on
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Buddhist sculpture — a primer on the diverse cultures, styles and periods that have produced images in wood, stone, terracotta, bronze, gold, silver and more
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Dorothy Miller: MoMA’s revered first female curator, who introduced museum visitors to Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Louise Nevelson and Frank Stella
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Classical Chinese furniture — expert advice for collectors, from identifying the rarest chairs, tables and cabinets to the importance of temperature control
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Anytime, Anywhere
ART AND LUXURY, READY TO TAKE HOME
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Christie’s Education Live Stream Course
18 March to 22 April
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