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Christie's - Picasso’s Les femmes d’Alger to launch Christie’s cutting-edge new auction platform, ONE

Picasso’s Les femmes d’Alger to launch Christie’s cutting-edge new auction platform, ONE

Picasso’s series of 15 canvases based on Eugène Delacroix’s masterpiece Les femmes d’Alger probably rank as his greatest achievement in the decades that followed the Second World War.

He created them in a burst of activity between December 1954 and February 1955, assigning each work an identifying letter, from ‘A’ to ‘O’. On 10 July, the sixth painting in the series — Version ‘F’ — will appear at auction for the first time, in a trailblazing Christie’s sale called ONE.

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Christie's - Ten sumptuous Impressionist paintings that made art-market history at Christie’s

Ten sumptuous Impressionist paintings that made art-market history at Christie’s

From a Degas that went for £180 in 1892 to a Monet that fetched £40 million in 2008 — a selection of masterpieces by some of painting’s greatest innovators

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Christie's - What artists are doing now — four rising stars talk art and inspiration under lockdown

What artists are doing now — four rising stars talk art and inspiration under lockdown

As Christie’s fourth Handpicked sale in collaboration with Saatchi moves fully online, we speak to a quartet of artists with works offered in the auction about how they’ve adapted to making art under lockdown

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Christie's - Online Magazine No.221

Sexuality, Surrealism… and how many self-portraits? A cryptic Leonor Fini masterpiece

Alastair Smart unpacks the mysteries of Leonor Fini’s fantastical masterpiece Rasch, Rasch, Rasch, meine Puppen Warten, offered for private sale at Christie’s

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