Christie’s – Online Magazine No.216

by Jacqueline A. O'Neill · April 14, 2020

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Art stories for the mind, body and soul — delivered, as always, with our very best wishes

Journeys of the mind: the artists who conjured visions of far-flung lands from their studios

‘The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes,’ wrote the novelist Marcel Proust. As a writer who spent much of his life in bed, the great modernist understood the power of treasured objects and the unconscious mind to evoke memories and imagine far-flung places.

Working out with Warhol: what this Basquiat work on paper reveals of their friendship

Offered for private sale, Untitled (Dynamic Tension), a work on paper that recalls the relationship between two 20th-century greats — and appears to reference their workouts together

Lose yourself in the drama — 10 gripping art novels you meant to read (and now can)

From those you might have forgotten about to the ones that have mysteriously passed you by — our pick of escapist art-filled fiction to help get you through the coming weeks and months