Christie’s – Online Magazine No.295

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Lucian Freud’s Girl with Closed Eyes: a tender work by the master of painterly scrutiny

‘It’s me all right’ — a coded double portrait of Picasso and his secret lover Marie-Thérèse

Why contemporary art from Oceania is making waves — and which artists to look out for

Do Valentine’s Day like an artist — inspired by Charles and Ray Eames, Warhol and more…

From prized patinas to sought-after styles: all you need to know about ancient Roman glass

They came from another world: our essential collector’s guide to remarkable meteorites

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Editor’s picks

The French dancer Hippolyte Monplaisir staged a series of ballets in Mexico in the early 1850s, all starring his wife Adèle. It was in Mexico City that another Frenchman abroad, the artist Edouard Pingret — who had trained under Jacques-Louis David — made this delicate pastel portrait of the ballerina

Estimate: $15,000-20,000
until 18 February, Online

This doghouse was once the humble abode of a German shepherd named Roky in the town of Aguas Zarcas, Costa Rica. During a famous meteorite shower there on 23 April 2019, one smashed through the metal roof of Roky’s kennel, narrowly missing him and making his home a collector’s item

Estimate: $200,000-300,000
until 23 February, Online

John Walsh’s Marakihau, painted in 2021, depicts a sea monster from Maori myth. Half giant, half fish, it has a huge hollow tongue capable of sucking in a whole ship. Yet no such violence is suggested by the creature in the painting, which has an eerie, ethereal beauty

Estimate: €15,000-24,000
until 14 February, Online

 

Here’s your chance to own a piece of extraterrestrial real estate. This complete slice of the planet Mars found its way to Earth as part of a chunk of rock smashed off the surface of the Red Planet by an asteroid strike. Meteor hunters discovered it in 2020 in the Sahara Desert

Estimate: $6,000-9,000
until 23 February, Online

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