Christie’s – Online Magazine No.218

by Jacqueline A. O'Neill · April 28, 2020

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A conversation between generations: Alex Katz’s Cecily

Painted at the height of Katz’s powers, Cecily, which is offered for private sale at Christie’s, is testament to the unlikely friendship between two artists from different eras

From the archive: Miami collectors Don and Mera Rubell on the importance of intuition

‘A collector is a person who falls passionately in love with art and can’t get enough of it’

Don and Mera Rubell have been buying art for more than 50 years. In the summer of 2015, Jonathan Bastable went to meet them to talk about Chinese art, their own museum, and building one of the best contemporary art collections in the world

Back to nature — a charity sale of photographs that show a very different side of Andy Warhol

‘You need to let the little things suddenly thrill you’ — when Warhol went back to nature

Andy Warhol: Better Days is an online sale of photographs from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support its efforts to provide emergency relief to artists. As Alastair Smart explains, the photos reveal a lesser-known side to the Pop icon

To mark 50 years since the first Earth Day, an artistic tour of the world’s most beautiful places

Wednesday 22 April, 2020 marks 50 years since the declaration of the first Earth Day in 1970 — an occasion on which to reflect on our natural world, and perhaps take action to help sustain it