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This week’s stories Tamara de Lempicka’s Portrait du Docteur Boucard: an Art Deco masterpiece |
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The biochemist Pierre Boucard was an ideal subject for Lempicka, who ‘loved art and society in equal measure’ — and she portrayed the scientist as the embodiment of 1920s urbanity and glamour |
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Printmaker Judith Solodkin on working with Louise Bourgeois: ‘She’d ask me to do things, and the only answer I had was yes’ |
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Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), Portrait du Docteur Boucard, 1928 (detail). Oil on canvas. 53⅛ x 29½ in (135 x 75 cm). Estimate: £5,000,000-8,000,000. Offered in the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 5 March 2025 at Christie’s in London. Artwork: © Tamara de Lempicka Estate, LLC / ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2025 // Luc Tuymans (b. 1958), C, 2017 (detail). Oil on canvas. 54⅜ × 30⅜ in (138.1 × 77.1 cm). Pinault Collection. © Luc Tuymans. Courtesy Luc Tuymans. Photo: Maxime Verret. Included in the exhibition Eye Contact: An Invitation to the Pinault Collection until 4 April 2025 at Christie’s in Los Angeles // Alex Katz (b. 1927), Eleuthera, 1999 (detail). Screenprint in colours, on Rives paper. Sheet: 48 x 26¾ in (1219 x 680 mm). Estimate: $10,000-15,000. Offered in Contemporary Edition until 26 February 2025 at Christie’s Online, New York. Artwork: © 2025 Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY // Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968), JAL. Chromogenic print. 16 x 12 in (40.6 x 30.5 cm). Photographed in 1997 and printed in 1998, this work is number seven from an edition of 10 plus one artist’s proof. Estimate: £8,000-12,000. Right: Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968), Kate sitting. Chromogenic print. 24 x 19⅞ in (61 x 50.8 cm). Photographed in 1996 and printed in 1999, this work is number one from an edition of three plus one artist’s proof. Estimate: £12,000-18,000. Both offered in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 6 March 2025 at Christie’s in London. Artworks: Courtesy of Galerie Buchholz, Maureen Paley, London, David Zwirner, New York // Michael Andrews (1928-1995), School IV: Barracuda under Skipjack Tuna, 1978 (detail). Acrylic on canvas. 69⅛ x 69⅛ in (175.5 x 175.5 cm). Estimate: £3,000,000-5,000,000. Offered in the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 5 March 2025 at Christie’s in London. Artwork: © The Estate of Michael Andrews / Tate // Clockwise, from top left: Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), Pregnant Caryatid, 2001. Lithograph in red, on fabric. Overall: 37⅛ x 22½ in (943 x 572 mm). Estimate: $6,000-8,000 / Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), Crochet IV, from Crochet I-V, 1998. Mixografía® print in red, on handmade paper, initialled in pencil. Sheet: 27⅜ x 33 in (695 x 838 mm). Estimate: $5,000-7,000 / Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), Couples, 2001. Lithograph in colours with hand-colouring in gold acrylic, on Rives BFK paper. Sheet: 44½ x 26 in (1130 x 660 mm). Estimate: $4,000-6,000 / Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), The Song of the Blacks and the Blues, 1996. Lithograph and woodcut in colours with hand-colouring in gouache and oilstick, on Rives BFK paper. Sheet: 95⅞ x 21½ in (2435 x 546 mm). Estimate: $8,000-12,000. All offered in Contemporary Edition until 26 February 2025 at Christie’s Online, New York. Artworks: © 2025 The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY // Sayed Haider Raza (1922-2016), Black Sun (Le Soleil Noir), 1953. Gouache on paper. 18¼ x 18⅞ in (46.4 x 47.9 cm). Estimate: $300,000-500,000. Offered in South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art on 19 March 2025 at Christie’s in New York. Artwork: © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London |