Contrasting with modern Prints and Multiples downstairs and around the main staircase, the grander rooms at Christie’s are filled to overflowing with art and antiques from six private collections in the UK and Europe, curated into room settings by David Hicks, Maison Jansen and Colefax & Fowler, a great improvement from the old days of […]
Continuing the theme of Andy Warhol and Pop Art, from Tate Modern to Sotheby’s, and then to Christie’s for the last visit for a while due to the current public health crisis, where their auction of Prints & Multiples also has strong representation by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Francis Bacon, Frank Stella, Jeff Koons, Pablo […]
One of the joys of visiting art exhibitions, whether at galleries or at auction houses, is finding something new. You think that there have been so many exhibitions of Andy Warhol that there is nothing new to see, yet at Christie’s this week, one of the highlights is a series of portraits, the ‘Athletes’ which […]
A rainbow cascades through the window onto the bed and then flows across the pillow and under the bedcovers before dropping out at the bottom of the bed. A simple, but powerful image. The bed is empty – is the rainbow a force of hope for a child who will come back and sleep there, […]
Following on from the auction on 1st October from the collection of Jeremy Lancaster, Christies, with Frieze on this month, along with the other auction houses pulled out the stops with auctions of post-war and contemporary art with a focus on British, German and Italian art, including Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley and Grayson Perry whose ceramic […]
Our condensing boiler at home was manufactured by the British company Wolseley. Obviously very successful, the owner Jeremy Lancaster also built up an impressive collection of 20th century art, initially British, but later geographically wider. Works from the collection, including Picssso, Warhol, Miro, Bridget Riley and David Hockney were on auction at Christie’s at the […]
As one of our greatest British sculptors, the best places to see Henry Moore’s (1896-1986) work are in his Studios in Hertfordshire and at Tate Britain, plus the many public spaces where his sculpture takes centre-stage. If you wanted to own something smaller than his huge sculptures, then this was the week to pop along […]
It’s a week of modern British art in London with Bonham’s, Sotheby’s and Christie’s all having sales of British art, along with Irish art at Bonham’s and Christie’s. Works for sale include many well-known artists from over the last century, some still active, including L.S. Lowry, Eduardo Paolozzi,, David Hockney, Lynn Chadwick, Elizabeth Frink, Terry […]
Moving from Christie Mayfair’s exhibition “About the Line” to Christie’s King Street, the preview for this week’s auction on Middle Eastern Modern and Contemporary Sale, reinforces artistry with lines in Mehdi Moutashar’s grid “Zone B 1-8″, Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi’s graphic “Sari Fe Azar” and Monir Farmanfarmaian’s “Heartbeat”. Overall the works show how Middle Eastern art has […]
Human creativity is linked to lines, whether those first markings on a prehistoric pot or a cave wall, the perspective of the columns of the Greek Parthenon, the hieroglyphics of Egypt, the musical scores of Beethoven, the plays of Shakespeare, the distorted shapes in a sketch by Picasso or the optical forms in a painting […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
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